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  • My wife is in the kitchen right now making a Chinese dish for herself that contains the worst stench I’ve ever smelled in my life. It smells like decaying flesh on a wet summer day after blisters have formed all over your feet. I’m trying my best not to make fun of it, but it’s really, really hard to do. She plans to combine it with some noodles of some kind.

    Created Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:09:36 +0000
  • I meant to post about this over the weekend, but… well, I forgot. I didn’t see much chatter about this over the leap day, but here it is.

    On a system that uses Postfix 2.2.9 on SLES 10, Postfix started acting quite wonky on February 29th, 2008. In a standard Postfix+Amavis+ClamAv setup, you actually have two Postfix daemons – one listening on port 25 (duh), the other listening on port 10025 waiting to get mail handed off from amavis+clamav.

    Created Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:34:03 +0000
  • (NOTE: This is a crosspost from my family site, www.porkbuns.org)

    So we’ve had a little announcement for a month or so now, but we’ve been holding off on the real public word until Daughter had been informed. Well, she’s been informed and so now the secret can get out!

    Can you figure out what the secret is? Surely, you can.

    Created Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:51:11 +0000
  • Ah, that line. What sweet memories it brings back.

    ^dRkRaVN was our eggdrop bot on the EFNet channel #alabama back in the late 80’s, early 90’s. I think I have the timeline right. Anyway, we ruled that channel with an iron fist, one that you often found crammed up your virtual backside if you didn’t fit into our clique’.

    Our clique’ was mean, evil and downright hilarious. The hours upon hours of endless fun with people I would meet later in life helped me get through one of the worst times of my life. I was going through a midlife crisis in my early twenties and without these folks, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have survived.

    Created Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:42:08 +0000
  • So I finally get to sit and watch what amounts to the last half of the Oscars. It seems like I didn’t miss much. I was trying to watch it live on the net, but my son was forcing me to play Super Mario Party 8 on the Wii while he ate dinner (a regular ritual around here).

    Now I’ve picked it up and started watching. I really thought Ellen Page was going to win for Juno, even though I have yet to see it.

    Created Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:16:46 +0000
  • It’s pretty amazing how far behind I’ve gotten in web creation technology.  I’ve been spending some time with Adobe CS3 and I’m finding out just how much of this thing has passed me by.  I’d say… quite a bit has passed me by.  I guess I’ve had my head down working on server stuff for so long now that I’ve not had a chance to really step back and work on web pages like I used to.

    Created Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:00:28 +0000
  • iTWire – From Windows to Linux – and back again

    I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again… the battle for the corporate desktop is fought at home. Microsoft has known this for a long time – Apple knows it too. That’s why Apple is sneaking up on Microsoft and they’re just not paying attention. They’re too busy mucking around in other businesses that they don’t belong in instead of focusing on the real business (operating systems, servers and Office).

    Created Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:28:39 +0000
  • I’m really enjoying the new setup – especially the part where I get to blow money on stuff like a USB headset mic… printers… bleh, stuff like that. This has been a good setup. This Mac Pro screams. It’s by far the most elegant computer I’ve ever come into contact with.

    I’m starting to get a little disappointed in the Canon PIXMA MX700 though. For some odd reason, it keeps thinking the genuine Canon magenta cartridge is not recognizable and refuses to print anything. Okie, why have a printer if it won’t print anything? It’s starting to get on my nerves. I see some people have the same problem, so I’m trying some web solutions.

    Created Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:21:27 +0000
  • I’m in awe of the raw processing power of this Mac Pro. Really. I’m even going to see how it handles Vista.

    Created Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:02:52 +0000
  • I updated to 10.5.2 pretty excitedly and for once, I finally experienced a problem with the update.

    Namely, two problems.

    – Apple Mail won’t quit. I’ve had to do a force quit every time since 10.5.2. Horsing around in the discussion groups at Apple shows that a few users have the same issue, but it seems to revolve around To-Do’s and/or Notes. I tried to add a new To-Do in Mail and sure enough, Mr. Beach Ball comes a knockin’. I took the user’s advice and wiped ~/Library/Mail and it seems to have resolved my issue. I’ll let you know after it finishes downloading my tons of megabytes of IMAP mail. Oh yeah, be careful about that – you get to redownload all your mail if you’re on IMAP. I’m not sure what happens with POP3 since I don’t ever, ever use POP3, but I’d imagine you lose the messages. Beware.

    Created Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:45:18 +0000