Tag Archives: stupid-sometimes

What the hell was I thinking?

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I have a very long commute. It's around 38 miles one-way, and depending on the day, the weather, and the time of departure, I'm looking at around an hour in the car. I cope by listening to a lot of audio books and podcasts, and it's generally a happy time, unless it's raining or there's a car fire. Seriously, that was yesterday morning. It took me two hours to get to work, and ran my collection of podcasts to dangerously low levels for the week. It happens...no big deal. Some days you're the Read more [...]

The (sometimes) utter ridiculousness of going green.

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So, it appears that the company I work for, which is otherwise a fairly sane and sensible collection of folks, has decided to "go green". Now, don't get me wrong. I think we should all have some sense of stewardship for the planet, some sense of ecological responsibility. I must confess though, this news from my company has me scratching my head. HR drug a box through the corridors today, and dropped off a present to all the full-time employees.  A water bottle. The idea here is Read more [...]

Tragedy strikes the khaosx global HQ data center.

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Pictured right is the screen I ran into on my system this morning after a couple of strange reboots and errors. "Odd", thought I. Since I've just gone through a case migration, so I ran through the usual checks - cable secured, proper port, etc. Vista rolled through a consistency check, and "sorted" a bunch of files (which is never good), and we wound up here after the reboot. Well crap. This is just not good. What you're seeing in that screenshot is the Intel RAID manager Read more [...]

Google acquires Jaiku

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Wow - this should pretty well be the nail in Twitter's coffin. Google announces that they've acquired Jaiku (the web presence that I use). I'm curious to see if they have a direction, or it this is a portfolio pickup. Google's Blog *Editor's note: The reason I have never been on TWiT is because I make completely wrong statements like "this should pretty well be the nail in Twitter's coffin". Read more [...]

I’m an idiot…here’s proof.

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One of the neater functions of WordPress (the software I run khaosx on) is the ability to set the system up to recieve posts via email. Anything you see in the category "moblog" is something I posted via email. It's really easy: 1. Setup a mailbox 2. Set WordPress to look for email in the box. 3. Setup a cron job to run the page that looks for email. My cron job runs every 5 minutes, and uses a command line broswer (CURL) to process a script file that dumps the email into a post. Here's where Read more [...]