Archive for December 2007
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Quickie: 12/31/2007 5:51:16pm
Finished 3 James Patterson books in the last 4 days. (...)
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Quickie: 12/31/2007 4:05:39pm
Billboard top 100 of 1988 has to be one of the best. Playing it on shuffle mode right now. (...)
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Quickie: 12/30/2007 9:28:46pm
Did some experimenting in the kitchen tonight and it turned out awesome. I’m going to just throw things together more often. (...)
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DIY Camera Tripod
Needed something to use around the house, so I made my own miniature camera tripod out of a bolt, wire hanger, and electrical tape. (...)
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Quickie: 12/29/2007 9:22:39am
Was getting a great night of sleep until the neighbor’s snow removal service started plowing her driveway at 5am. They had a truck with a plow and it took them about 15 minutes. I think I could do it faster with my snow blower! (...)
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Quickie: 12/28/2007 6:53:13pm
Running the self-clean function on my oven. (...)
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Quickie: 12/28/2007 6:50:14pm
Need to send in my Xbox 360 for repair because of the dreaded red ring of light. (...)
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Quickie: 12/28/2007 5:29:53pm
Took out the hard drive, unplugged cables, and reconnected everything. Xbox 360 works again, but for how long? (...)
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Quickie: 12/28/2007 5:12:49pm
Picked up BioShock and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare from Best Buy today. 10 minutes into BioShock, my Xbox 360 dies. Investigating… (...)
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Quickie: 12/28/2007 10:02:46am
Heading back to Saginaw today. I’m ready to get home. (...)
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Quickie: 12/27/2007 10:56:25pm
Watched 8 movies in the last 3 days. Shooter, Crank, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, TMNT, Hannibal Rising, Mr. Brooks, Fracture, and Inside Man. (...)
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Quickie: 12/26/2007 3:54:58pm
Watching TMNT. (...)
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Quickie: 12/26/2007 11:07:56am
Slept in until almost 11. I can’t remember the last time I was able to do that. It’s my birthday and I’ll do what I want to! (...)
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Quickie: 12/25/2007 9:59:06pm
Just got done watching Shooter with the family. Very good movie. (...)
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Quickie: 12/25/2007 4:41:43pm
Stealing all their money playing Aces and Kings. Maybe I’ll shower at some point. (...)
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Quickie: 12/25/2007 12:05:08pm
Running Nintendo games on my iPhone. (...)
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Quickie: 12/25/2007 9:43:27am
Merry Christmas! (...)
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Quickie: 12/24/2007 10:54:26pm
Why didn’t I hack my iPhone a long time ago? It’s like a brand new phone all over again. (...)
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Quickie: 12/24/2007 9:02:12am
Looking up info on hacking the iPhone. I think it’s time to give it a try. (...)
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Better Use Of Sidebars
Series of Posts - Redesigning MtDewvirus 2007The New MtDewVirusSeparating Content TypesBetter Use Of Sidebars I really wanted a way to separate different parts of the web site, so by going with two sidebars on the new design, I have a lot of extra spots. The right sidebar always shows links to my other web sites and advertisements. (...)
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Quickie: 12/24/2007 8:58:01am
Was in bed shortly after 10 last night. 2 nights of partying caught up to me. (...)
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Quickie: 12/23/2007 10:03:00am
I stole lotto tickets from someone at the White Elephant gift exchange last night and won $10. (...)
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Quickie: 12/22/2007 6:28:33pm
Internet is not working at my parents. At least I have the iPhone. (...)
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Quickie: 12/22/2007 1:56:45pm
Listening to podcasts and driving to Rogers City. (...)
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Quickie: 12/22/2007 12:04:48pm
Someone wants me to refund their money for a HD-DVD they bought on Half.com from me because they didn’t realize it required a HD-DVD player. Uh…NO! (...)
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Quickie: 12/22/2007 11:57:52am
The pizza delivery guy had a beer with us last night. (...)
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Quickie: 12/21/2007 8:56:54pm
Tom and I have been waiting 3 hours for Casey and Maggie to show up. (...)
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Quickie: 12/21/2007 4:40:40pm
Off to Mount Pleasant to party with friends tonight. (...)
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Quickie: 12/21/2007 4:20:00pm
Was nice to have the entire day off instead of the half day we usually get. I accomplished a ton of stuff around the house today. (...)
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Quickie: 12/21/2007 3:33:04pm
I was just renaming a bunch of read_me.txt files to readme.txt manually. Kind of a pain in the ass until I had a bright idea. Create a Quicksilver Trigger to rename the selected item automatically. So much easier! (...)
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Quickie: 12/21/2007 11:52:19am
Wrapping Christmas presents. (...)
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Quickie: 12/21/2007 9:51:35am
Paying bills, cleaning, packing, and doing laundry (...)
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Quickie: 12/20/2007 7:38:14pm
I just lost an hour and a half of work because I didn’t save. Can’t remember the last time this happened. (...)
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Quickie: 12/20/2007 4:35:10pm
Officially on holiday break! (...)
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Quickie: 12/20/2007 2:13:35pm
Is there a way to export Quicksilver settings, Triggers, and everything? I really hate going from Mac to Mac and not having the same setup for a program I can’t live without. (...)
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Busy Holiday Schedule
My schedule for the holidays this year is busier than usual. Friday - Party in Mount Pleasant with friends. Saturday - White elephant Christmas party at my sister’s house. Sunday - Christmas party with my Dad’s family. Monday - Christmas Eve at my parent’s house. Crab legs for dinner and gift exchange later. Tuesday - Christmas with my Mom’s family. (...)
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Quickie: 12/20/2007 12:26:59pm
Set my account to “On Vacation” at Half.com so my items won’t be viewable while I’m out of town. (...)
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Alternative Email
Some students have been selected as a test group for Zimbra because our current student email system is horrible. Our CIO refuses to even consider using Gmail Apps for Education. (...)
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Not Missing Twitter
Three days without Twitter and I haven’t missed it yet. (...)
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Quickie: 12/20/2007 8:59:21am
Leopard doesn’t barely runs on a G4 PowerBook. Talk about slow! (...)
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Quickie: 12/20/2007 7:50:32am
It was much easier getting out of bed today knowing I wouldn’t have to do it again until January 2nd. (...)
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Quickie: 12/19/2007 10:56:00pm
No wonder this 32.5 GB torrent has been taking weeks to download…I had speeds throttled. (...)
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Quickie: 12/19/2007 6:36:24pm
Working on a Quickie posting plugin for the default WordPress admin interface. (...)
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Quickie: 12/19/2007 4:16:25pm
One more work day. Then 12 days off. 8 of those (weekdays) are paid without using any vacation, personal, or sick time! (...)
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Quickie: 12/19/2007 3:34:04pm
Helped a friend get some code working with WordPress MU so he can use one theme for a series of blogs, but still be able to do some custom CSS for each site. (...)
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Quickie: 12/19/2007 12:53:15pm
Can’t stop eating. We have tons of food at work today. (...)
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Quickie: 12/19/2007 9:59:50am
Google’s personalized home page now allows for a 4 column layout. (...)
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Quickie: 12/19/2007 8:30:16am
Added Lightbox and wordTube plugins here at MDV. (...)
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Kelly Is A Boy’s Name Too
I can’t stop laughing at JC Penney’s new commercial. Dear Santa. Kelly is a boys name too. from Kelly. Get the Flash Player to see the wordTube Media Player. (...)
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Quickie: 12/18/2007 9:36:27pm
Treats for work are done, but not until after burning the first batch of choc. and butterscotch chips for the topping. (...)
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Quickie: 12/18/2007 8:13:50pm
Made some good progress tonight on the WPhone add-on plugin. Posting with it right now. (...)
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Quickie: 12/18/2007 5:56:19pm
Need to make Scotcheroos tonight to take to work tomorrow for “Eat and Get Fat Day.” (...)
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Quickie: 12/18/2007 3:21:12pm
Learned a lot about Vista in training, but nothing to make me want to switch from XP. (...)
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Quickie: 12/18/2007 8:10:23am
Rearranged my Google personalized home page. Taking a little while to get used to the changes. (...)
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PHP: date - Manual
The PHP: date - Manual is one of the handiest references. (...)
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Quickie: 12/18/2007 7:45am
Day 1 of Vista training was actually pretty good. The OS really isn’t too bad once you dig into it. (...)
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Quickie: 12/18/2007 7:45am
Exhausted beyond belief this morning. I want to go back to bed. (...)
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Lock Screen and Sleep Display with Quicksilver
Looking for a quick way to lock your screen and put the display to sleep on Mac OS X using Quicksilver? Download Sleep Display. Extract the zip file and move SleepDisplay to your Applications folder. Run the SleepDisplay application at least once. (...)
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Quickie: 12/17/2007 9:15pm
Created an AppleScript for Quicksilver which launches my Quickie post screen and autofills with the text I enter. (...)
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Quickie: 12/17/2007 4:58pm
I think it’s time to get a new mouse. The wireless Mighty Mouse just doesn’t cut it. I sold my old Logitech MX Revolution because I couldn’t stand the scroll wheel. Any suggestions? (...)
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Quickie: 12/17/2007 1:32pm
McD’s for breakfast and lunch today. (...)
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Quickie: 12/17/2007 8:16am
Someone is coming in to give us Vista training for 2 days. Should be interesting. (...)
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Quickie: 12/17/2007 8:15am
My street still wasn’t plowed this morning. Nearly got stuck twice and then once again in the McDonald’s drive-thru. (...)
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Quickie: 12/16/2007 10:35pm
Big Brother 9 is coming in February instead of summer. (...)
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Quickie: 12/16/2007 8:24pm
11 minutes into Survivor and finally new footage. (...)
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Quickie: 12/16/2007 6:31pm
Around 8 inches of fresh snow today and my street still hasn’t been plowed. (...)
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Quickie: 12/16/2007 5:05pm
Enjoying some golf on TV. (...)
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Goodbye Twitter
Twitter is a web service to help answer the question What are you doing? The service was born in March of 2006 and I first used it in November of the same year. After a lot of thought, I’ve decided to say goodbye to Twitter. Before Twitter existed I started using what most sites call asides as a way to post short little updates to my blog. I call these Quickies. (...)
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Quickie: 12/16/2007 9:37am
Blowing harder and snowing harder. I guess I better get the snowblower going. (...)
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Quickie: 12/16/2007 8:55am
Just had to call one of my best friends and tell him I can’t make it to his wedding this afternoon. We’re in the middle of a blizzard. 3 hour drive to the wedding is too risky. He was pretty bummed and I feel horrible right now. (...)
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Quickie: 12/15/2007 7:33pm
Sitting down with dinner to enjoy The Bourne Ultimatum. (...)
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Quickie: 12/15/2007 5:55pm
Customizing Wphone to post Quickies. If this post makes it to the blog it worked! (...)
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Wphone
Wphone is a lightweight WordPress admin interface built for the iPhone and might convince me to ditch Twitter. (...)
Separating Content Types
Series of Posts - Redesigning MtDewvirus 2007The New MtDewVirusSeparating Content TypesBetter Use Of Sidebars One of the major goals for the 2007 redesign was separating the different types of content posted on the site. Over the years, post sizes have decreased. I’m not sure when, but once upon a time I implemented what are commonly called “Asides” as a type of short quick post. (...)
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NICKED Up - Recent Posts
If you don’t use a feed reader, the Recent Posts page over at NICKED Up is a great way to quickly see what’s new around my blogs without visiting each site. I just updated the page to use wp_SimpleLife which makes it user friendlier. (...)
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Updated Card Tricks Site
The Card Tricks site has gone through quite a few updates in the past two days. Go check it out! (...)
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New 2 Hole Cards Design
2 Hole Cards is the 3rd site in a week I’ve given a new design. (...)
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Primary Rough Redesign
New design up over at Primary Rough. (...)
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Free Windows SSH Server
freeSSHd is a free SSH Server for use on a Windows NT based Operating System. I’m using it on Windows XP and it works great. Very easy to setup. I recommend using it in combination with Hamachi. (...)
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Fax Calling My Phone
Does a fax machine keep dialing your phone number? I’ve had this happen several times at work and just had it happen a few minutes ago. If you are on phone system, this fix works great. Answer the phone and quickly transfer the call to your office’s fax number. The office fax machine will receive the fax and the calls to your phone should stop. (...)
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Pixelotto
Pixelotto, from the creator of the Million Dollar Homepage. (...)
404 Notifier WordPress Plugin
Some of the best WordPress plugins are the ones you rarely use. One of my favorites is Alex King’s 404 Notifier. Very handy to turn on every couple of months or after a site upgrade. (...)
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Halo 3 Stats
Halo3.Junk.ws takes your Bungie.net stats to the next level. With the huge increase in members, their servers are pretty backed up gathering game stats. For an example, check out my stats. (...)
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Send Delayed Emails
Found a service this morning which allows you to use any email client you want to send delayed emails. It’s called LetterMeLater. Sign up for an account, send a message to me@lendmelater.com, and include some info in the body of the message. Your message will be sent at the date and time specified. (...)
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Force Install MSI
Have a MSI installer that is failing? Try running it like so… msiexec.exe /fvecmus nameofyourmsi.msi. (...)
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Phantom Scream - Chronology EP Download
Bryan’s band has put out their first CD for download. Get Chronology EP by Phantom Scream. (...)
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The New MtDewVirus
Series of Posts - Redesigning MtDewvirus 2007The New MtDewVirusSeparating Content TypesBetter Use Of Sidebars Here it is. The new and hopefully improved mtdewvirus.com. I started on this design over a year ago and hadn’t touched it in over a year until Friday night. I put a lot of hours into it over the weekend and a few more tonight fixing errors after updating the live site. (...)