So, it is at least somewhat within the realm of possibility that some of you have noticed that the blogtest URL no longer works, since I finally dumped SurfSpeedy (SURFSPEEDY SUCKS! DO NOT HOST WITH THEM!) and switched to another hosting provider ( Read more... )

I think, since it's 2008, it's time to migrate away from LJ and over to something like WordPress. So, I'm going to try out doing my updating over on another blog. If you're interested, you can visit me at http://www.likesgadgets.com forward-slash blogtest. I'm not going to put in direct ( Read more... )

It's that time of year again where we're supposed to lay out plans for self-improvement. I don't think I made a resolutions post for 2007, but I recall wanted to look more forward and less back... I think I did OK on that front ( Read more... )

For fun, I jumped in on a five-questions meme from an lj-friend to see what people wondered about me... here are the questions and answers for your reading pleasure!

1. What do you do for a living? What do you do for fun?I'm a systems and networks engineer, which means I do a little bit of everything project-related for systems and network ( Read more... )

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Now that the work part of the holidays is over, we can finally sit back, relax a little bit, and think about how to make next year go better ( Read more... )

So, I'm re-ripping most of my holiday CDs to FLAC, and in so doing, I have noticed these three versions of a popular Christmas carol's title on different albums:

• God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
• God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Now, seeing these three versions makes one consider more closely the differences between them. In the ( Read more... )

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Well, this is disturbing. LJ has taken upon itself the role of content policeman, removing offensive search terms from search databases and otherwise protecting us from all that is unseemly on the Internet ( Read more... )