Archive for January, 2007

Vista Upgrade Flowchart

I always love a good joke at Microsoft’s expense.
If you are thinking about upgrading to Vista, here is a good tool to help make the decision.

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Financial Calculators

With Christmas just over and tax time coming up many people are working on their finances.
With that in mind I thought I would share my favorite financial calculator site.
Hugh’s Mortgage and Financial Calculators is a website produced by Hugh Chou that contains many javascript financial and mortgage calculators. An invaluable site when you are [...]

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Before Nacho Libre

Before Jack Black hit it big as Shallow Hal, Nacho Libre or Tenacious D, he was just a kid like the rest of us.
Here’s video of Black trying to make a buck back in 1982.

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Alone in the dark

Ever since moving into my home in 2001 I have had a problem with lightbulbs. It seems that the bulbs typically only last a few months at most. I have attempted to research the reason behind this and have come to the conclusion that it’s either because incandescent lightbulbs are worthless, or there [...]

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Libertarian response to Bush’s State of the Union

Yesterday, I received in my inbox an email from my friends over at the Libertarian Party discussing the Libertarian response to President Bush’s State of the Union speech.
I am not (yet) a member of the Libertarian party, and cannot endorse their comments without reservation, but I do think the piece made some interesting points, specifically:
…the [...]

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Daybreak coming to the Internet

Looks like ABC has finally seen the light and will post the remaining Daybreak episods on their website.
ABC president Steve McPherson revealed that fans of the serialized drama — which was pulled from the air after five weeks — may find some closure as the remaining episodes will be placed on the company’s website by [...]

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Lilo -R – updating kernel on remote machine

Linux is an amazing server operating system. A remote user can control nearly any aspect of the computer.
The company where I work has servers hosted at a location in south Denver, about 70 miles away. I can do almost all of our maintenance from our, the only difficult thing is updating [...]

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‘Greatest Quarterback EVER’… Chokes

In what may be the most exciting AFC championship game in history the Indianapolis Colts overcame an 18 point first half deficit to defeat the vaunted New England Patriots and secured a place in the Super Bowl.
Both teams fought valiantly, but ultimately the Colts desire to win prevailed.
The poetic moment of the game is when [...]

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Anybody But the Patriots

We are just two days away from Sunday’s show down between two of the best football teams of the modern era. The New England Patriots with their boring, mediocre, ‘we don’t need good players when we can just bore the other team to death’ style vs. the dynamic, exciting, record setting, passionate Indianapolis Colts. [...]

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Golden students change their grades

Students of Golden High School in Golden, Colorado ‘hacked’ into the schools parental portal system and changed their grades.
This story is sure to bring out all the evil ‘hacker’ stories, that topic has been a little slow lately. Maybe they should arrest these kids as ‘terrorists’. Doesn’t the Patriot act make hacking in [...]

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