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Wow! Wow! There is nothing like going to see Social Distortion play live on a Monday night, the evening before you have to fly to New York at 5:30 in the morning. Nothing like it. Social Distortion is one of my favorite bands of all times. When I was about 15 or 16, I think, [...]

Ah… the joys of working out of a home office. Today marks my first day at the new job… and I forgot how exciting and relaxing at the same time it can be to work from home. Especially when you started two home improvement projects over the weekend, didn’t finish them, and have to force [...]

My best friend from high-school got an iBook this week for his 3rd wedding anniversary. What a kick ass wife! So, now he’s got a Desktop PC in his home office, next to a wireless base-station and a 14″ iBook. Just for reference, I called it a year ago in a post about iTunes and [...]

I’m looking to move my family site, englers.org, from PHPNuke to MovableType. I’m wondering if anyone else had done, and if so, if they’ve got a tipe, trick, or script for doing so? I foung one post in the MT Support forums, PHPNuke to MT, Converting from PHPNuke to MT, but it’s pretty sparse on [...]

About a week ago, I got this email from my hosting provider (The Planet): We have recieved reports of spam originating from this server. Please investigate, address the issue, and update this ticket with your action(s). Due to the nature of this issue, failure to resolve the issue and update this ticket within 48 hours [...]

Last Friday, I turned in my two week notice to my boss. It was a tough thing to do, as I’ve been pretty happy at this job. When I say “pretty happy”, I mean happy enough to not want to quit or lose the job because I did something stupid… and I had a smile [...]

I’ve been really slacking with posting new posts to this weblog lately, not because I don’t want to write things, but rather because my life has really gotten busy. That being said, I’d like to point out my linkblog, which I still regularly add content to. Think of my linkblog as my way of pointing [...]

I sent an email to my company’s IT department Tuesday. It said: The little “windows update” icon popped up in my system tray today, and I learned that XP SP2 is now available to me as an update. Do you want me to install the update? I asked them about this particular update, because I’ve [...]