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Category : Geekdom

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

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Published on: April 29, 2005

I just got back from seeing the “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” movie, and I am happy to say it was good, it was worth to be named after the: book, BBC radio show, TV mini-series, the game*. And in the great grand tradition of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy stuff, it was[…]

Microsoft can not win

Categories: Geekdom, Politics
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Published on: April 29, 2005

No this is not an anti-MS post. I feel sorry for them in this post. They are getting pressure from 2 sides of a HOT political issue. The issue is homosexual stuff. First let me say I do not believe homosexuality is a moral activity, but the contrary is an abomination to God as stated[…]

Hollywood has lost touch

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Published on: April 26, 2005

There are some people out there that want cleaned up versions of movies that are out there (I am not one of those people, but maybe I would be if I had kids) and Hollywood is upset that parents now have technology that can make sure that the objectionable stuff in movies and TV shows.[…]

Only 5 more days

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Published on: April 24, 2005

I am so excited only 5 more days till “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” opens up. I have put together a small group of friends to go see it. Also I have plans already to see it a second time with some other friends of mine.

Spring is finally here, biking, iPod shuffle

Categories: Biking, Geekdom, Technology
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Published on: April 9, 2005

It is nice that the weather is starting to get warmer now. I have had about a week of great weather here in Pittsburgh. I been getting out on the bike more, for the last 4 days, I have gotten at lest 3 hours of biking in a day. When I was younger I did[…]

Old pictures and new pictures

Categories: Family, Geekdom, Technology
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Published on: March 23, 2005

Well three things have happened as of late that made me think about how we keep our pictures today. I was in the past the only way to lose your memories (pictures) was to a disaster such as a flood or a fire. Now we don’t only have that to worry about, but we have[…]

Planet WPLUG

Categories: Geekdom, Web Site
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Published on: March 9, 2005

One of our member of wplug is working on a new aggregate of the blogs of members of wplug you can see the test page at http://wm-eddie.info/planet/. He has said it will be moved to planet.wplug.org some time in the future. It could be fun to see what “wplug” is thinking in any given day.[…]

I must be boring

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Published on: March 8, 2005

I must be boring, I just finished watching NOVA on WQED (Pittsburgh’s PBS) on string theory and I find it very interesting. It is kind of interesting to see the current thoughts on how the universe physically works. And I am watching it while I do some work I brought home that I want to[…]

Pictures from the CPLUG Security Conference

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Published on: March 7, 2005

You can see the few pictures I took at the CPLUG conference on saterday here, in the CPLUG picture page

CPLUG’s Security conference

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Published on: March 6, 2005

On Saturday I went out with some friends of mine from WPLUG (Western PA Linux User Group) to CPLUG’s (Central PA Linux User Group) Security Conference. It was pretty good; I found one of the more interesting talks was from a PA trooper on the PA cyber crime laws. They seemed to be well written,[…]

Why

Categories: Geekdom, Play, Technology
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Published on: October 23, 2004

Why do I spend so much time on Slashdot? It is fun at times, but for the most part it’s sophomoric for the most part. I should start trying to wean my self of Slashdot. It is in my best interest. But for some reason I always go back to it, it is like it[…]

Lets see how much traffic /. can bring here

Categories: Geekdom, Web Site
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Published on: October 18, 2004

I just got something submitted to /. that links to a file here from /. So far this morning the bandwidth usage is up at 336 Mb used and the story was posted at 7:30am and here we are about 2 hours and 15 minutes later and the site is up, I don’t think /.[…]

The hard drive in the gateway laptop

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Published on: October 15, 2004

W00t it is no about 1/2 way done on the bad block scan (3028872/6801228) I am so happy it just might finish before the end of the month!!! It has been going since Sep 29!! That is one borked hard drive. The drive is toast but I am going to let this finish for the[…]

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