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Archive of entries posted by Head Geek
“Mayor Resigns, Claims Abduction By Satan Worshippers”
Abduction and brain-washing by a Satanic cult… it’s all just too eighties for me.
“Well, It IS The Home of the Creation Museum, After All”
“The Kentucky legislature holds hearings on global warming, and forgets to invite any actual scientists.” Un-freakin’-believable.
“Japanese “melody roads” play tunes as you drive over them”
When I was a child, one of our family’s vacations required driving through Nashville, Tennessee. That was the first place I encountered grooved pavement; my mother said to be quiet and listen, because the road was singing to us (which earned her about three minutes of golden near-silence from myself and my two sisters). It …
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CygWin Woes
After trying for a couple days to get the Squid http proxy software installed on my office CygWin system (to bypass the hotel’s blocking system, so that I can get a secure connection over their open wireless system), I’ve given up on it. I don’t know of any way to have the office machine download …
“Who else is laughing at the music industry?”
“Freelance technology journalist” Don Reisinger has an interesting article here: As music downloading (and dare I say illegal downloading) continues to rise, these music companies bury their heads in the sand and blow policy out the other end. Instead of understanding customers and realizing that what we want is readily available music without DRM, Warner …
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“What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?”
The title says it all. 🙂
“Blame game: My name made me do it”
There certainly may be something to this. My initials spell a very positive go-get-’em word, and I’ve always felt that I can do anything if I put my mind to it. I’ve managed some things that many people certainly thought weren’t possible, though I suspect they were due to my sheer stubbornness dogged persistence more …
Thou Shalt Not Do Anything That We Can’t Spy On
As described yesterday, I talked someone at the office through the process of punching a hole in our firewall for the secure HTTP port this morning, then changed the SSH server to use that port instead. It didn’t solve the problem; apparently Cox already thought of that, and they’re only allowing legitimate HTTPS packets on …
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“Vista SP1 a Performance Dud”
Everyone has been waiting for Vista SP1 to come out, thinking that surely it will fix all of the problems that Vista has (like running many programs at half the speed on the same hardware). Well, it doesn’t seem to make a lick of difference: Bottom Line: If you’ve been disappointed with the performance of …