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  • A Dying Lithium-Ion Battery
  • Tracking Down a Battery Drain
  • A few minor site updates
  • Sega Game Gear Refurb
  • Game Boy Pocket Refurb
  • One year in the glovebox for an 18650 li-on battery
  • Original Hardware
  • Free Lumens (Kind of)
  • Country Financial Ripped Me Off
  • Light Throw
  • Brighter Isn’t Always Better
  • Keeping Sane in 2020
  • Retro Gaming on Odroid Handhelds
  • Flashing a new OS… to a flashlight?
  • First site redesign, ever!
  • Crowd funding sites have transitioned to full on scams
  • Pi-hole users are the worst
  • Political Spam is not ok
  • Taking over from a failure of an IT company
  • A word about Ubiquiti EdgeRouters
  • Let’s Encrypt!
  • Why isn’t everyone doing 2-factor Auth?
  • Android Marshmallow Deliciousness
  • Android Lollipop Bullshit
  • Fix SickBeard “Pushbullet Notification Failed” Error
  • Fatherhood
  • Fix Synology Sickbeard Shortcut When Using https
  • Virginia Overstreet
  • Defeat the SJ-R’s Paywall with Chrome in 4 seconds
  • How Gyft Stole My Personal Information
  • MS Surface Pro Tablet Redux
  • Why I Love Android
  • Forcing sendmail to use a different port for outgoing mail
  • Microsoft Surface Tablet
  • Tricky php.ini settings
  • Why can’t Winamp stay on top?!
  • Fix 7’s Taskbar Right Clicking
  • Photo Project 52. A Year of Photos
  • Photo Project 52. Week 52 – Decay
  • Photo Project 52. Week 51 – Stella
  • Photo Project 52. Week 50 – Happy Holidays
  • Photo Project 52. Week 49 – Sunset
  • Photo Project 52. Week 48 – Extinguish
  • Photo Project 52. Week 47 – Shadows
  • Photo Project 52. Week 46 – Bandit
  • Photo Project 52. Week 45 – Playoff
  • Photo Project 52. Week 44 – Selectomatic
  • Photo Project 52. Week 43 – Grayie
  • Photo Project 52. Week 42 – Bride
  • Photo Project 52. Week 41 – Best Friends
  • Photo Project 52. Week 40 – Autumn
  • Photo Project 52. Week 39 – Oasis
  • Photo Project 52. Week 38 – Hoover Dam
  • Photo Project 52. Week 37 – American Love
  • Photo Project 52. Week 36 – Saleen
  • Photo Project 52. Week 35 – War
  • Photo Project 52. Week 34 – Star Trek
  • Photo Project 52. Week 33 – L&L
  • Photo Project 52. Week 32 – Ascend
  • Photo Project 52. Week 31 – Fracture
  • Photo Project 52. Week 30 – Fairlane
  • Photo Project 52. Week 29 – Maize
  • Photo Project 52. Week 28 – Festival
  • Photo Project 52. Week 27 – Lost
  • Photo Project 52. Week 26 – Independence
  • Photo Project 52. Week 25 – Railroad
  • Photo Project 52. Week 24 – Lightning
  • Photo Project 52. Week 23 – Pastime
  • Photo Project 52. Week 22 – Abe
  • Four Years Late – Goodbye Springfield Air Rendezvous
  • Photo Project 52. Week 21 – Celebration
  • Photo Project 52. Week 20 – Solitary
  • Photo Project 52. Week 19 – Showers
  • Photo Project 52. Week 18 – Magnolia
  • Photo Project 52. Week 17 – Reflection
  • Photo Project 52. Week 16 – Invasion
  • Photo Project 52. Week 15 – Xunantunich
  • Photo Project 52. Week 14 – Low Tide
  • A quick note on the photo project
  • Photo Project 52. Week 13 – Nightlife
  • Photo Project 52. Week 12 – CWLP
  • Photo Project 52. Week 11 – Preparations
  • Photo Project 52. Week 10 – Sanctuary
  • Photo Project 52. Week 9 – Cascade
  • Photo Project 52. Week 8 – Ricks
  • Windows 7 SP1 is out, time to get back some HD space
  • Photo Project 52. Week 7 – Lunar
  • Photo Project 52. Week 6 – Disconnected
  • Nokia must be on something good
  • Photo Project 52. Week 5 – Frozen
  • Photo Project 52. Week 4 – Innocence
  • Photo 52 Project. Week 3 – Aged
  • Photo 52 Project. Week 2 – Flight
  • Photo 52 Project. Week 1 – Beginning
  • What happened to Linkin Park?
  • The Good Guys wreck a WS6… or did they?
  • A new rootkit?
  • Apple’s Failure, the iPhone 4
  • Why Windows Phone 7 Will Fail
  • HP’s New Touch-pads Suck
  • Fox finally shit-cans a show that deserves it
  • Walmart, more like Wastemart
  • Mozilla Disables Java Deployment Toolkit in Firefox
  • New Wave Communications Rights Their Wrong
  • Android Contact’s Birthdays In Your Calendar
  • New Wave Communications: The Worst ISP in America
  • It’s 2010, do you know where your balls are?
  • Windows 7 Annoyance: File Properties
  • Java: A Malware Writer’s Dream Come True
  • The Achievers: The Story of the Lebowski Fans Losers
  • Firefox 3.6 Breaks Themes and Personas Coexistence
  • TrueCrypt Full System Encryption on a Netbook
  • Windows Server Backup Sucks
  • I still like Avira
  • Make Firefox More Secure, Disable Java
  • Wanda Sykes Sucks
  • Good Riddance Hulu
  • Why Powermat Fails
  • The Phantom of the Opera
  • Alton Fall 2009 Ride
  • Now Gravatar Friendly
  • Philips DVD-R Yellows, Goes Bad
  • Windows 7 Crippling, On The Big Screen
  • Why is Windows 7 Media Player So Ugly?
  • Vista and 7: Easily Disable Ease of Access
  • UPS Mutilated My Parcel
  • UPS Should Go Out Of Business
  • Windows 7 Home: Your very own crippled OS!
  • Changing Antivirus Programs, so long NOD32
  • A Quick War Drive
  • Why I (almost) never delete program installers
  • HTC Fundamental Hardware Problems
  • Funny “insider” type joke in the new Ghostbusters video game
  • Facebook – The root of all evil awesomeness
  • Clean up old files after installing Vista’s SP2
  • Sync Your Server 2003 Time
  • I Love Dell Support
  • Install IPCop from a USB Drive
  • Windows 7 – Just keeps getting dumber
  • Acer Predator Fail
  • AT&T Fuze vs. iPhone
  • A stroll through a crashed MySQL database
  • A look at my Windows Mobile history
  • Acer support can go pound sand
  • Breaking Bad – The Best Show You’re Not Watching
  • Preinstalled “OEM” Software Needs to STOP
  • Update on Boxee/Hulu
  • iPhone formatted version of my blog
  • R.I.P. Launch Day 360
  • My take on the Boxee/Hulu Situation
  • A change in permalinks
  • The GoogleUpdate.exe Plague
  • Messing with Script Kiddies
  • December 31st, 2008, The Day The Zunes Stood Still
  • TF2 Dedicated Server Rant
  • PHP – 4th Most Popular Programming Language
  • iPhone 2.2 Jailbreakers, free up space from previous Jailbreaks!
  • Nintendo DS Wifi Sucks
  • Frank Caliendo is NOT funny
  • Happy Halloween!
  • Vista Bashing – I’m SICK of it!
  • So Long iGoogle!
  • Move that nasty EA Games folder out of Documents!
  • Updated iGoogle – WTF?
  • Follow up to “Open File – Security Warning”
  • Search added to site
  • Sometimes Microsoft makes me want to stab them in the face with a hot poker
  • Vista/XP Annoyance – “Open File – Security Warning” (Caused by IE7)
  • Criss Angel = Talentless Hack
  • Have Vista? Installed SP1? Want ~800mb disk space back?
  • Classmates.com can kiss my ass
  • Vista File Extension Manager (Mounting ISO Revision)
  • Hacker Safe = Most untrustworthy worthless badge ever (iPower Server Hacked)
  • Tutorial: Mounting CD/DVD Images with Daemon tools by double clicking the file in Vista
  • Spring Alton Ride (2008)
  • Windows Mobile – Broken Beyond Repair
  • Never ever buy Asus
  • Happy New Year!
  • The German Christmas Pickle: FAKE
  • Wine “experts” are scam artists
  • Reality TV is Shit.
  • Pew!Pew!Pew!
  • Welcome to the new site

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