Rarely do I ever venture onto MySpace. But I was reading Technorati’s Tech section, and this one cropped up, and had my laughing quite a bit.

Technorati Tags: Tech, Humour, Humor

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Some interesting factoids by the NSRP.

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I caught a bit of this on NPR this morning, well more specifically the comments on how they are using MRIs to spot differences in pain levels caused by sitting, but this little article by ScienceDaily covers it a little more in depth. I’ve suffered back pain for a while, and I’ve found it [...]

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Okay, double pun there, I couldn’t help it. Ilya Yakubovich has a quicky on using LaTeX. It gives a quick overview, and an example. I’ve often considered looking at LaTeX just to challenge the brain a little, but seeing some of the syntax, and such, I get boggled, and usually turn away. [...]

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We all really hate spam, and sometimes to the point of wanting to give up on email altogether, and just tell your friends to use a phone, or paper. Christopher Null at Yahoo Tech posts about a site called “10 Minute Mail”. Pretty handy. There are other options too, such as using [...]

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I recently wrote about being on a creativity kick, and I’ve been reading a lot of food blogs recently, one such is The Culinary Chase. Today they have an interesting looking recipe for beef stew which I think I might try. Anybody got any other recipes they really enjoy? Or have been wanting [...]

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It’s always been one of those items on my list to try, operating entirely at work without Microsoft Windows (r) on my laptop. Yesterday I think that possibility became all the more viable. With the move of our production servers to our corporate office, and there being no direct link to the servers, [...]

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Recently we had a need to start looking at other solutions for the SQLMail service in SQL Server 2000. The service is unreliable, depends on Microsoft Outlook (2000 before SR1 preferable), and an email server. Corporate suggested a new solution called SqlAnswersMail. It is a drop in replacement for SQLMail service, and [...]

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I don’t often just play with apps, I usually have to have a need behind them, and today at work we were discussing houses. It’s been discussed at home, that we start looking at houses soon (year or so), and then LifeHacker had mentions of a nifty little Flash application that you can use [...]

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Stumbled on an odd one today. I was adding some new hosts to our Nagios server, and while I was looking at the interface, one of the servers kept popping up an error, the error was:

PING WARNING - System call sent warnings to stderr System call sent warnings to stderr

So I checked the [...]

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