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I used to say I am the garbage can at work.
Basically, everything that needs to get done and no one has done it…well, I do it.  If it’s been left over, I do it.  If something is on fire, I fix it.  If someone needs to know something, they come to me.  I am the [...]

It’s over. After dozens of shots. After endless pains. After countless dental visits. After getting Electrosurged. After almost a year, my tooth is finally fixed. I got the crown put on today and my tooth is back. I now talk with a strange lisp because it feels weird [...]

I was driving home the other night listening to news radio when I heard two car commercials almost back to back. The car companies were trying to push their CPO vehicles. CPO? You are asking yourself, what is that? It is a new marketing acronym for “Certified Pre-Owned”. It was [...]

Thanks to JR for sending this very cool web analytics software over (via delicious). The software is a new package named Piwik, which is the “new” version of phpMyVisites. I’m going to run Piwik side-by-side with Google Analytics for a week. If Piwik can gather the stats that I need correctly, then [...]

Scratch that whole Powerline thing.  I was at Best Buy and saw a Linksys WGA600N Gaming Adapter.  It runs Draft-N and costs the same as the Netgear XE102G Powerline adapter set.  I figured why not give it a shot, I can still return the Powerline stuff.  The WGA600N was very easy to setup and, unlike [...]

We’re clearing out the office to make way for the new princess’s nursery.  Part of that move means moving out all my networking gear from the office into the new “office” — a slice of the livingroom and kitchen.
The DSL modem, wireless router and NAS got moved into the kitchen and now sits on one [...]

I just saw a commercial from the American Heart Association. It showed people speed walking. At the end fo the commercial, a friendly voice informs us:
“For every hour of regular, vigorous exercise we do, like brisk walking, we can live two hours longer.”
I am being half facetious and half serious with this question:
If [...]