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  • Acceptable shorthand Twitter chatter

    One of the faux paus of Twitter is abbreviating things just to fit your whole message. Abbreviating things just to get more words in is weak, if not outright dumb. Abbreviating words or using acronyms properly ((The definition of proper also varies by medium, so what is proper in Twitter, may not be proper in…

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  • iPhone Commercial

    I love spoof commercials. This one is awesome Jane Lynch kicks ass. Enjoy

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  • Sleep Depravation. Do you have it?

    I was going to wait another month or so before I brought this up in public, but I think if I put my thoughts down and articulate what I’m doing I might get better results. Have you heard of polyphasic sleep? Neither had I until a couple years ago. Don’t worry, I’ll tell you more…

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  • How to erase your hard drive for good

    Never, ever, dispose of your harddrives without first erasing all the data in them. Also, make sure you don’t erase it just by deleting the files; even after you delete files, they can be recovered. Your best bet is to properly overwrite the harddrive with bogus data, then erase it. This process ensures that your…

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  • Featured Plugin: Pre-Publish Reminders

    There’s always a list of stuff you do before you post to your blog. Whether you realize it or not, there are a number of things that must be done before you hit that Publish button on your next blog post. For example, did you… Categorize your post properly? Use proper title (h1, h2, h3,…)…

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  • My brief encounter with the KFC Double Down.

    Back in April, I gave into temptation and I made my way to KFC. I was in the hunt for the KFC Double Down. If you’re not sure what that is, let me tell you. Its a sandwich made out of two chicken filets, notice I said “made out of” not made with. What this…

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  • Empire Avenue comments on Advertisements

    I didn’t think I would write on my blog about Empire Avenue, but here it is. My ~~first~~ second post related to it and a little tip about advertisments in EA. If you’ve followed any of my tweets in the past couple of months, you might have heard of Empire Avenue. A new cool social…

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  • Ball catching robot.

    TOTO – tracking of thrown objects from Dennis Barteit on Vimeo. I thought this was pretty cool. Hope you liked it too.

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  • 2 months now, No cable TV or Phone Land Line

    I think its just about two months since we canceled our cable TV and telephone land line at home. I’m happy to report that I don’t miss TV very much, and after I got my new phone with Sprint the issues with not having a land line disappeared. For TV, I watch Hulu or Netflix.…

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  • Centos 5.4 PXE Boot

    Quick Intro Some time ago I setup a PXE boot server at work so we could deploy different operating systems to our servers and computers quickly. I’m lazy like that. We use it to deploy Centos 5.3, Centos 4.4, and a few different versions of the Mirth Appliances. Here’s how I added Centos 5.4 to…

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