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Was it really only April when I last had to talk about drive failures and backups . Well here we are in May its happened again. Different machine, different hard drive and a more spectacular death. Yesterday afternoon I had several very odd 'hangs'...
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I got a new GPS unit last week in the REI sale. It came with a DVD of all the TOPO maps of the USA and a 128Mb microSD card. Well that's pretty small these days so I popped down to Fry's to get a bigger one. Its simply stunning to think that this...
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[Wow 2 posts in one day and neither about running!] There are a lot of people out there who hate DRM with a passion. I'm not one of them. I understand that its a necessary evil in a world where most people will get something for nothing if they possibly...
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Today I got an email from the ACM regarding the ACM queue magazine I get as part of my membership. Seems that they are not going to print the paper copy any more. The reasons they give sound like they paid a marketing consultant to come up with them:...
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Time for another running story - with tales of lycra and nasty smells abound. For the second time my running group headed North from Seattle to the frozen wastes of Canada and a the city with one of the worst traffic systems I have ever seen. I swear...
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Yes I know its supposed to be the Irish but I'm not sure what is lucky about a country famous for a Potato Famine . While the big data drive was in the freezer I booted up the server to see what shape the rest of it was in and to my surprise I found...
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I admit to being a smug bastard when it comes to backups. I've managed to keep backups of all/most my data intact for close to 10 years now. At its worst I would copy the important stuff onto floppy once a month or so but for the last few years I...
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Last week was the annual(ish) MVP Summit here in Seattle and as a regular observer of idiotic behaviour there was no shortage of things for me to watch out for. When there is free food its there for you to stock up your hotel room with. To the MVP who...
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It used to be that running a marathon was a big deal - until Oprah ran one ! Now every man and his dog, and his cat, and his parrot and his pet stick insect has run a marathon. So how can you possibly stand out from the crowd? Run an ultramarathon ! Yes...
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Some friends were twittering about an InBox Zero video a few days ago. Of course since I am such a procrastinator its taken me 4 days to finish watching it and a lot of that was reading email.... Hmmmm ironic eh? My in boxes: zman: 3570 emails oldest...
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I had heard the hype about the legendary Mexican coke that has sugar instead of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). I honestly believed that this was "the real thing" and I would just die from the flavour and taste like most other people who have...
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Writing code for a living is a lot of hard work so I'm very pleased to share with the world a way to make a lot of money while just pissing off a few people. Create an ebay account Sell enough stuff legitimitely to get solid positive feedback and...
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Those of you in the programming world will have heard of the DailyWTF - WTF meaning of course What the F*** - that showcases the worst of the computer programming world. Its not a place that a world respected programmer like myself ever wants to end up...
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I know you are all expecting my race reports to get crazier and crazier after my goofy race but the next crazy race is not for 5 more weeks (only the 50k folks - I'm not totally insane [well maybe not till 2009]). But as part of the training we like...
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Just because your dog responds to 'sit' when you are sitting quietly at home with a treat in your hand does not mean your dog is trained well nor is it 'under voice control'. So when you take your dog to a park please follow the city law...