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February, 2009

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iPhone formatted version of my blog

February 28th, 2009

Check out the new beautiful iPhone-formatted version of my site just for mobile Safari!
After an hour of messing around with my logo because my dumbass didn’t save the original source file when I originally made it, I got it looking just the way I want it. (And I’ve saved source files this time so if [...]

R.I.P. Launch Day 360

February 21st, 2009

It was a mildly chilly November night when 3 friends and I camped outside a Sam’s Club to get our hand on the first XBox 360’s.  Some of us sold them on Ebay, some of us sold our spot in line, some of us bought and kept the 360.
Last night, the 360 I bought that [...]

My take on the Boxee/Hulu Situation

February 19th, 2009

Well, if you haven’t noticed or heard yet, Hulu streaming has been disabled in Boxee.
I’m not going to go over WHY it happened, as it’s pretty well explained by the Boxee and Hulu teams here:
Boxee on the Hulu Situation
Hulu “Doing Hard Things”
What I will do is offer my opinion on it all… after all, that [...]

A change in permalinks

February 17th, 2009

I have changed the way my blog handles/creates permalinks to my articles.
The new format is much more search engine friendly, and looks better IMO.
My site was having a few issues for an hour or so earlier while I hammered out the precise apache rewrite rules to make it do what I was wanting to.
Everything should [...]

The GoogleUpdate.exe Plague

February 5th, 2009

Seriously… what the hell is up with this shit Google?
I have now noticed this on all 3 machines I use on a regular basis… my desktop, my laptop, and my work computer. They all have at least 1 (if not more) GoogleUpdate.exe running on them, and it is hard to get rid of. [...]

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