Category Archives: Computers

Hey gossip – bettersearch reference sighted…

lookie lookie (via: http://philringnalda.com/) goes back to lurking in his corner… Edited on Mar 12th 2005, 14:47 by Hooloovoo

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Egad!

I decided to log into gmail and see if I could reproduce this problem. (Sorry Fox, working fine for me…) I just noticed that I have 50 invites to give away – (well actually 200, since I have 4 gmail … Continue reading

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FireFox Extension of the Year (to date)

Okay – so the year isn’t that old, but I came across a very cool extension for FireFox. (You are using FireFox, aren’t you?) Have a look at SpellBound, a spell checker add-on that lets you spell check just about … Continue reading

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New system

after a couple of bumps (easily solved by replacing new IDE cable for the cd-r and dvd drives with one that works.) My new system is up and running. Now begins the long process of downloading and installing apps and … Continue reading

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I must be losing my touch

It’s been a very long time (too long) since I last built a computer from scratch, and even then I did not have to research or purchase the components. My boss just said: “here are the parts for your workstation. … Continue reading

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Magpie RSS Parser

I had a very basic RSS parser ripped from a tutorial somewhere powering the syndication of my g-blog posts on my own website: http://www.hooloovoo.net/blog I was never really happy with the code I had found, specifically the way it formatted … Continue reading

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Geeky Thought

You know you’re a geek when you think of a flu-shot as “upgrading your virus definitions”

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Gossip: Feedapalooza bug report

The City of Heroes Game Updates Feed hasn’t updated since 09.18.04 I think I asked this before, is there a contact link on the feedapalooza blog for reporting problems that I should be using? -Hool

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can’t beleive I just did that…. I was trying to fix messed up record in our in-house MySQL database. I ran an update command and forgot use a where clause to specify the id of the record I was … Continue reading

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Bash.org random quoteness

#400403 [Quote] !8ball… what’s wrong with my e-mail? SmilinBob: Ask again later. !8ball what’s wrong with my e-mail? SmilinBob: Outlook not so good. [Quote] The quote just struck me as funny. On a side note – Windows XP StickyKeys sucks … Continue reading

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