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{ April 22, 2008 @ 3:06 pm }
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{ Reflexive, Tech, Writing }
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I missed Twitter over the weekend. I’ve barely been using it for two weeks and when it’s not working, I’m sad. It looks like it is finally almost working again, but I don’t want to get too attached or it will go away again. The RSS to the right of this post that has my Tweets in it just started double posting, so things aren’t fully righted quite yet, it seems. This doubling might be Twitter’s fault, or it might be mine because I changed the theme of my blog, but in both cases the services are free to me so I can’t really complain, so I won’t. This is not a complaining post, but rather just an observation of humans interacting.
Tonight is a big night for Barack Obama supporters. I don’t think we actually expect him to win outright in Pennsylvania. We know better than to hope for that, but if he comes close at all to victory, then it should be over for Hillary. She will probably hang on until the end, but I think we all know that this would be one of those blows that results in internal bleeding which really should be looked at by a doctor as opposed to trying to fight on.
How does this apply to Twitter? Well, because events/happenings like tonight or what sounds like happened at SXSW earlier this year are what Twitter seems perfect for. Maybe Twitter was fixed just in time, maybe not. For a site which has no visible business model, we can be thankful it exists at all. Twitter is a strange beast, but even people’s reaction, or lack thereof, to it being wonky, has been the most fascinating part of all.
{ June 21, 2007 @ 3:30 pm }
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{ Reflexive, Writing }
{ Tags: tech writing }
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Thunderstorms begat a series of power outages which led me to belatedly put a UPS in place for the web server which houses these files. The mighty fine UPS has been “in place” next to a dead server for quite a few weeks now.
After the latest outage (which lasted all of 500 milliseconds) the poor thing didn’t want to boot all the way with fsck literally getting zapped. School took over all of my time unfortunately right about then, but now in the summer terms, a tiny bit of freedom has been afforded me.
An interesting series of Ubuntu installation and Knoppix live-CD’s later, the result is the words you are currently reading. NOTE TO SELF: if system says it can’t find fsck and you can’t find fsck then it’s NOT there. Trying simply putting a viable fsck in /sbin with the straggling remnants and everything might be OK.
Barring some network slowness, everything is coming back to life. Next task in line is to get the server migrated to a more easily updated installation…
Wish me luck!
{ June 16, 2006 @ 11:18 am }
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{ Reflexive, Writing }
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Some time in the next couple of weeks, I will be moving back to the place of my birth, the Chicagoland area. My apartment lease is up at the end of June and I plan to be all packed and on the road during the last week of the month.
This blog, as much as I haven’t been updating it over the last year and a half will remain alive, but it may disappear for a few days. Please do not distress.
With any luck, the changes I am making in my life will allow me to pay more attention to this piece of me.
I will be attending DePaul University as close to as full time as possible in the Fall having been accepted to their School for New Learning. I will be pursuing a second bachelor’s degree in Computing.
You may or may not have noticed that the escrow closing portion of my blog blurb has disappeared. I will be doing everything possible to keep it disappeared as my life moves forward.
GOODBYE SEATTLE! For now.
{ January 1, 2005 @ 2:08 am }
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{ Reflexive, Writing }
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Okay, I ask the same question every year, but where the hell did 2004 go?
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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
{ December 26, 2004 @ 1:38 am }
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{ Veganism, Writing }
{ Tags: veganism writing }
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Christmas 2004 has come and gone.
Happy Holidays to all and to all a good night.
Tried the Tofurky Vegetarian Feast for the first time ever. The roast filled with stuffing was excellent. Screwed up the potato dumplings, so they turned out just ok. The gravy was yummy. Next time, probably next Thanksgiving, we’ll see if we can’t make the dumplings turn out well.
We watched the first DVD of the Return of the King extended version. Boy, it sure would have been nice if they did the Kill Bill thing with all three installments and bit the bullet time wise to include all this juicy extra stuff the first time through. So good and every minute of it makes the movies better for their intended use (copious unabashed worship of the LOTR universe).
{ November 25, 2004 @ 8:05 pm }
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{ Veganism, Writing }
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O’ Universe
Thank you for wonderful seitan, a scrumptous treat any day, but particularly good today.
Thank you for great family and friends.
No thanks for a rather horrible election. Please take that back and do it over. There are many of us in the world who would greatly appreciate it.
{ October 12, 2004 @ 10:59 am }
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{ Reflexive, Writing }
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It has been a long time since I have written here.
I miss it.
Hope it hasn’t missed me too much.
Addicted to Lineage II. Great friends from across the continent and beyond, who are great roleplayers, and insanely great graphics. Will write more about why I think this game might just have it all (at least for me), soon. If I can stop playing, that is.
{ July 5, 2004 @ 1:13 pm }
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Happy
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Independence
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Day
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Fireworks can be excessive.
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But they are fun.
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{ May 19, 2004 @ 11:13 pm }
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The aptly titled novel Distraction (1998) by Bruce Sterling did a nice job of slowly drawing me into the story, in a way akin to being distracted. On the surface, it is all about politics, but what is politics all about?
Sterling explores that question in his own way. There are tidbits from his other novels. Twinges of crazy weather and glimpses into a perceived future of where the internet might be in 40 years.
Best of all it makes me laugh when I least expect it.
{ April 8, 2004 @ 11:54 am }
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{ Cons, Writing }
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