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Charity Beard Growing Contest. None of this whimpy just the month of November stuff. I’m thinking something closer to Whiskerino, except with an entrance fee that get’s split between the winner(s) and the charity of their choice. Start October 1st, Ending on May 1st. Prizes for Longest, Thickest, and Worst Beards. I have no expectation [...]
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I'm fiddling with some plugins to try and add my twitter favorites to my blog, and the last blog post seems to have disappeared. awesome. (0)
Five uses for a soon to expire RSA Token
Lottery ticket number generator Toddler toy Hammer testing device Wobbly table leg shim Blog post fodder
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48 hours with the G1
In order to silence Ben’s nagging, here are my thoughts on the G1 after about 2 days. Pros: Browser works well. No multitouch, but the interface is quite usable. No flash, but embedded youtube videos can be opened in the youtube app from the browser. I wrote this blog post in the browser. Hardware. Feels [...]
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Android Ponies
I’m really liking what I’ve seen of Android, and I’m pretty sure I’m going to have one by November. Everyone seems to have a list of the announced apps they want to use but I’d like to find replacements for the following apps I’m pretty happy with in the Windows Mobile world. SSH client. right [...]
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Proliant Blade running RHEL5, you’ll need a cma.log rotation script
No one seems to have written a log rotation script for the Proliant Support Pack logs that are stored in /var/spool/compaq/cma.log, so I thought I’d throw mine up here in case someone else needs one. put this in a file called “cma” in /etc/logrotate.d/ /var/spool/compaq/cma.log { compress missingok size=100M postrotate /sbin/service hpasm restart 2> /dev/null [...]
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Why American Education is Failing: Not Enough MacGyver
Meg is teaching her third graders a unit on energy and needed an example scenario to test their knowledge of what happens to heated particles, namely that they expand to take up more space. She had a test question that was worded very oddly and involved how far capillary action would draw fluid up a [...]
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When I’m Elvis Rich: America’s National Pastime Plus Little People
When I’m Elvis rich, I’m going to start an American League Baseball team composed of all little people, and a really good normal sized pitcher. Lets call them The Anaheim Munchkins. As long as my pitcher can manage a few no-hitters against the other normal sized teams, the rest of my team’s impossible to hit [...]
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Mantle Cat
Mantle Cat Originally uploaded by jrishel. this picture explains a lot of the odd noises we’ve been hearing at night.
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Pretend To Be a Time Traveler Day is on December 8th. The funny thing is, I spent most of elementary school doing exactly this. It's nice to see your hobbies recognized with their own holiday. Via Via (0)
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