Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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GTFU
(Warning – this post is a complete and total spleen vent and contains NSFW / mature language and themes. You have been warned. Don't keep reading if its going to result it you getting all pissed off and leaving me nasty comments. This is truly a post that I am doing mostly to get it…
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Doing some homework before election day
I posted a link to the Kentucky Secretary of State page with all of the ballots to my facebook page earlier this week. I took some time last night to actually look at the ballot I will get in Grant county and make some decisions. I will admit that this is the first time I…
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Tech marches on
In the summer of 1990 I was getting ready to head off to my freshman year at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology. Over the summer I got a letter from the school stating that they would be trying a new "integrated curriculum" that fall for a sub-set of the entering freshman class. The concept behind…
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My final word (for now)
I've been involved in lots of facebook threads, twitter @replies and bar stool discussions about guns and gun control in the wake of the terrible acts that took place in Aurora, Colorado last Friday morning. The victims, their families and all who were in that theater that night are in my prayers and I truly…
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Vacation recap: giving a little back
Not a lengthy post today since I have over 200 unread emails waiting in my inbox – and that is after deleting all the spam – but I wanted to share some of the reviews I did on Trip Adviser of the places we went and the things we did while on vacation for the…
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A can of worms that never should have been
It's been said that most of the problems government solves it originally created itself. I think this is the case on the "gay marriage issue" (quotes used because I although I acknowledge that it is an issue, I don't think it needed to be). I don't talk about political / religious issues much on this…
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Unhacked
Sorry, guess it wasn’t good form to have the top post on my site be titles “hacked” for the last week. I did get it cleaned up in about 24 hours for good. Ended up being something that had gotten ahold of my FTP password and was using that path to infect my index.php and…
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Hacked…
Sorry about that folks, but it appears my blog was hacked. No, all of the posts are mine…but someone dropped in some php code in a few of my template files and index.php file. After trying my best to clean everything up and installing every highly rated firewall, malware and antivirus plugin I could find,…
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Ghost in the machine
Although my makerbot still sits in its box in the basement, I am still spending some time thinking about how I will use it once I eventually get it built. I've got most of it figure out, but still have some questions about input. There are three ways that something can end up being made…