Category: Thoughts
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Christmas Gift From Space
And I’m not talking about Will Smith. I finally got into the office today and found a present from one of our security guards. Turpin( I love to call him officer Drebben) is this, obviously, crazy older gentleman with a sense of humor as dry as the Sahara…heh. So I opened the xmas card and…
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Fiber + Backhoe = Bad
Soooo we get a call from a customer that their link dropped. Upon further investigation, their fiber runs back to a local university and then jumps to their location. A little more digging shows that the city was installing a fire hydrant along that line. A quick call to the city yields us the information…
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Subspace…How I Remember Thee…
I remember being introduced to subspace right around the time it was released…I must have been 14-15, give or take. My cutty Paul got me hooked. This was the first Massively Multiplayer Online game I’d played. I still remember soliciting for players to join my frequency and attack the little area in the lower right.…
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Where are you from?
I was looking at my analytics and I noticed that France is my #2 traffic source. USA is #1, which I would assume is because my site is over here in the US written in the Englishes. France, I didn’t see coming…you guys totally snuck up on me. It seems most people are visiting from…
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Large Scale Database Distribution
I was running the other day when my brain stumbled in an interesting direction. I was thinking about how the government houses vast amounts of information about us. Each person has to have several thousands of lines of information in databases somewhere. I was thinking how one could efficiently query this information in a manageable…
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What do I use for my video tutorials?
I use Wink! It basically does screen shots and allows you to add buttons and text boxes. They also allow you to record audio to go along with the presentation, but I haven’t tested it yet. I’ve been using Wink for years. As is most of the software I use, it is free!