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The Return - August 18, 2008

On Friday I was overjoyed to see that my Xbox had arrived. I'm very impressed with the service and the turnaround time from Microsoft. Friday night I hung out with Justin, Jon and Grace to celebrate Grace and Justin's birthday and I finally got my LAN cable from Jon. It wasn't Jon's fault at all but I've been a tad lazy about it and pretty darn busy. So now I finally have internet on my desktop. I had been wanting to set up Xbox Media Center for a long time and now I finally could. Before.
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Bite Me Dreamhost - August 15, 2008

DreamHost Blog &187; Just Your Average Happy DreamHost Customer (Early this morning, one of our shared web servers ovaltine started crashing. We quickly narrowed it down to nastialiukin.com. At her website managers request, we moved her temporarily to a different shared server with nobody else on it. It also kept crashing! So, we switched her (static html) site from Apache to lighttpd and immediately the load dropped from 200 to .2 (unfortunately, lighttpd is really only good for static...
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Kevin Smith Has Watched The Watchmen - August 15, 2008

Myspace.com Blogs - NC17 No More, Toronto and Crazy 4 Cult! - Kevin Smith MySpace Blog I saw "Watchmen." It's fucking astounding. The Non-Disclosure Agreement I signed prevents me from saying much, but I can spout the following with complete joygasmic enthusiasm: Snyder and Co. have pulled it off. Remember that feeling of watching "Sin City" on the big screen and being blown away by what a faithful translation of the source material it was, in terms of both content and visuals Triple that, and.
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WTF of the Day: Red Dawn!! - August 15, 2008

the Sad Geek Blog - tech tips and tutorials: Russia invades Georgia(US): Dude doesn't see the tanks, should he be worried Found on Yahoo Answers: Even if it was posted as a joke, it's still pretty darn funny.Powered by b2evolution.
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This Brightened my Day - August 14, 2008

Thanks Fail Dogs.Powered by b2evolution.
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If I Can Get Political For a Second - August 13, 2008

Redefining abortion: Federal officials considering a rule allowing health care workers to refuse to provide contraceptives Editorial Chron.com - Houston Chronicle The Bush administration has consistently opposed providing funding for international birth control programs, but until now has not tried to limit the use of contraceptives inside the United States. That could change in the president's final months in office. Health and Human Services officials are considering a draft regulation...
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In Dreams Begin Responsibilities - August 12, 2008

In an earlier post I talked about my changing opinion regarding Brian Krakow. Now that I've finished the whole series again I have to say that I'm back to saying that Brian Krakow is awesome. Yes, as Jeri pointed out in the comments, Brian is kind of creepy. He also is kind of a jerk at times. As I continued to watch the show I thought about what I was like when I was Brian's age. I was awkward and had no idea how to talk to girls or what to do to get a girlfriend. This resulted in me...
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Punk Rock Show - August 11, 2008

I arrived safely home from our Tomfest trip yesterday evening. I promptly showered (I'd been in a car for 21 hours), watched an episode of My So Called Life, then fell asleep. The trip was great, the drive was beautiful, much fun was had. We had a great time at the festival. We saw a ton of bands and met some really cool folks. My favorite of the new bands we discovered was definitely Quitet by Ten. If I had to compare them to anything I would compare them to Havalina Rail Co., which is...
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