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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Upgraded
Talk about feeling watched. No sooner did I remove the rogue links than they were replaced with similar ones off a different college URL.
I dropped everything to upgrade WordPress. Seems to be working so far.
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Time to Update WordPress
I came over here to update the blogroll and noticed a funny thing:
Someone was able to hack WordPress in a way that gave them access to the blogroll. No idea when it happened, but the links all redirected through this WordPress blog using a trailing structure in the form of:
?q=cash-loans
At the end of the [...]
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Resume Posted
I have updated my resume page. Eliminated beta and scratch stuff and added a link to the current blogging resume in Word format.
Perhaps I’ll get around to posting other stuff here one of these days…
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Come to the Middleboro Craft Fair
You would never know it by the Middleboro PTA’s current online calendar, but there will be a craft fair this Saturday, December 1st, at the Burkland School cafeteria. The school is on Mayflower Avenue, which is right off the main drag of route 105, near the lights at route 28. SouthCoastToday.com actually does [...]
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Looking for Carnival of the Capitalists?
The latest edition of Carnival of the Capitalists is over at Welcome to Help, despite not being quite ready for primetime.
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
Aborting Forced Shutdown
It’s interesting to see this post about a stubborn, automated reboot in Vista. I haven’t setup my Vista testbed machine yet, but I’ve seen a shutdown countdown on older Windows. You can even provoke it by accidentally ending the wrong process.
That’s how I learned about “shutdown /a” for aborting such a thing (by [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Geek Tips by blog
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
Amiga History
Over at Ars Technica they are working on a superb history of the Amiga. Sadly, I never had the pleasure of using one, but I have heard nothing but raves about them over the years, and I know there are many still in use and software still being written or adapted for them.
Check out [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Business, Computers by blog
Saturday, July 7th, 2007
Name Change!
For all this time, the business I’m working on has been planned to be Geek Practitioners, thus this associated blog name, which remains a cool one.
At the last minute I changed the name to match a tagline I had created a while back, then found to be available as a domain.
I’d already decided to answer [...]
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Friday, June 15th, 2007
Shedding Light
This commentary reminds me of something I noticed long ago, sometime in the past five years; the sheer number of little lights scattered about in formerly dark rooms.
While I am sometime annoyed when a room is too bright at night, my usual thought is to imagine what a time traveler from the past - not [...]
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
October 23rd Carnival of the Capitalists
If business blogging interests you, check out Carnival of the Capitalists each week, including the latest; the October 23rd edition hosted by Blawg Review.
You might also enjoy CommerceBucket, along the same lines, but operating on an ongoing basis and inviting anyone’s participation.
