Its not pretty…

Okay, so the pages aren’t pretty but all 4 URL’s should be working now.  I will spend some time over the next few days customizing them so they are less cookie cutter copies of each other with varying content.  Since this is a big change this is how the URL’s will work.
If you want to [...]

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Split and moving

There seem to be three types of people that look at my blog, friends/family that want to know everything that is going on in my life, people who happen on my blog for my geeky posts and people that look at my vegan/animal rights posts. Most people don’t seem to have much interest in [...]

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Blue Proximity

A friend of mine pointed me in the direction of a piece of software called BlueProximity. Basically it looks for your cellphone via bluetooth and if it can find it it checks to see how close you are. You can define a range that it accepts you as being at your computer and [...]

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Review: Capital Region Veg Expo

I went to the capital region veg expo yesterday and I wanted to stew on my experience for a little while before I wrote up my review. I went last year and had mixed feelings but an overall good experience from the expo. This year I left the expo feeling disappointed and discouraged. [...]

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Stupid home and end keys on my macbook

Its funny how you just get used to some things. I’ve been using either Windows or Linux as my primary desktops for quite a while now. Both operating systems treat the home and end keys pretty much the same way. The first time I was in a terminal on my mac though [...]

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Sinking frustrations with Conduit

Like most geeks out there I know I have quite a few machines out there and there are some applications that I use to try and keep my sanity and sync everything. Most recently I have added dropbox and spider oak to a growing web of applications that gradually bring me closer to syncing [...]

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A word on Unit Testing

For those of you who are completely unaware of what unit testing is here is a brief description.
In computer programming, unit testing is a method of testing that verifies the individual units of source code are working properly. A unit is the smallest testable part of an application. In procedural programming a unit may be [...]

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VMware fixed

I finally was able to get VMware server to install, mostly due to a very helpful forum post on ubuntu’s forums. Once I found this post I knew I was 90% there because it was specifically dealing with both the version of ubuntu and the version of VMware server I was trying to install. [...]

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Mounting Porter

For those of you that don’t know porter mountain is one of the high peaks.  Its one of the smaller ones and is a relatively easy climb to the top.  This weekend lisa and I climbed porter mountain.  We camped near the trail so that we could spend most of the day hiking.
It was [...]

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Isis visits us

We have a gray kitty that visits us occasionally and begs for food.  We have decided to call her isis and more or less consider ourselves her adopted family.  I’m pretty sure she used to be someone’s companion animal because she is fairly friendly around people.  She seems very skiddish around doors though and shows [...]

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