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Testbed

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

What happens if I …

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At The Opera

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

I’m not entirely sure why, but I just installed opera mini on my blackberry.

It’s no mobile safari, but so far I think I like it better than the blackberry browser.

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potential breakage in progress…

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Not that anyone cares, but I’m about to upgrade my WP install. I wonder what I’m going to break in the process.

update:
That wasn’t too bad. Just had to get the “Disable WordPress Widgets” plug-in for K2.

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Gmail Invites

Saturday, January 22nd, 2005

I finally found a way to easily get rid of my excess gmail invites:
http://isnoop.net/gmailomatic.php

I sent 17 invites to the spool a couple of minutes ago. Most of them have already been snatched up.

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New system

Monday, January 10th, 2005

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 patches, adn tweaking settings.

Firefox was first (after norton antivirus.) NWN and CoH are next up. (MMM 8 months of patches for an mmo over 56k…) I think I’ll be checking out open office as well as some other non-microsoft “productivity” apps.

-Hool

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uhm - when did g-blog start serving google ads?

Friday, December 17th, 2004

gossip - I have a screen shot of one of your recent blog entires with an ad from google in the sidebar. Is that intentional, or has some piece of ad serving software managed to get itself installed on my work machine?

[Spoilers] [/Spoilers]
in spoilers because it’s big. and I apologize for the poor quality of the image, I dont have a decent screen shot taker here. that was created in paint…

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I must be losing my touch

Tuesday, December 7th, 2004

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. Put it together.”

So I want to build a new machine and I’m not even sure where to start looking. Does anyone have any suggestions for finding good prices on components for a decent gaming system? At the minimum I’ll be needing a new motherboard, processor, RAM, and case (along with the requisite cables/connectors/cooling/power….) I can cannibalize my current system for other needed pieces (video, cdrom, hd, etc) for the time being, seeing as how I’m on a tight budget. (I’ve got about $300 to get me started.)

Edited on Dec 7th 2004, 01:56 by Hooloovoo

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