Well, not all of it. I’ve generally had quite a good experience with buying stuff online, never had any issues. Purchased quite a bit from ebay, a few books, and a little bits and pieces all over the place (Stephanie’s game sites etc). That was until recently.

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Work… I like my job… don’t get me wrong, but there are certainly days where I just want to go home, and stick my head under my pillow, and pretend it didn’t exist.

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I had started to write a nice long explanation on how my day is going.. was full of techno-babble, and general bitching… so [...]

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You really can do anything with duct tape.

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I’m getting kind of tired of some people’s philosophies in OpenSource. Tonight I spent well over an hour trawling through Sourceforge, looking for something very simple. A time tracker. Nothing more complicated that being able to click a button showing I am doing something, and another to say I’m done… and add [...]

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This says it all…

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While driving into work this morning, it dawned on me that generally corporations, and organizations, don’t appear to have any intelligence at all. This was mostly spawned by two news stories that make you think… “how stupid”. I’m not saying you should do one of these, and lying about the other one is [...]

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I’m having one of those days. So much to do, but:

cat /dev/random > /dev/brain

I cannot seem to get my brain into gear… eugh

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Or maybe not. Yesterday we set a record high for winter at a freezing 82 (roughly 26 celcius). This beat the previous record set in 1997 of 78 (roughly 24 celcius). Along with this freezing weather we’re having, we’re under a grass firewatch, because I don’t think I’ve seen a drop of [...]

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Only in Texas could an inch of snow be considered catastrophic, and inspire whole towns to buy the whole supply of bottled water… Okay, a little exaggeration, but we’re supposed to get a little cold weather over the next two days. Little cold being in the high 20s (roughly 28-32), with a 50% chance [...]

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As I am sitting here reviewing a project I have to do, I am trying to figure out why I have to write a project that is fairly complex because the tools available are limited due to the operating system.

The project goal is to synchronize two servers, or more specifically two directories containing over 100GB [...]

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