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linux wireless

Thursday, September 1st, 2005

I received this email earlier today at work (massively cut since it was lengthy):

I have been struggling with a Win2K networking problem

the ThinkPad would not pick up my 80211.b WAP

At this point I am faced with reinstalling Windows 2000 or upgrading to
Linux

I never thought I’d see the day when someone considered switching to linux for [...]

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Image Idiocy

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

I spent several hours over the past 3 days trying to get all the images from the wedding ready to put online, and apparently the image editing program I used doesn’t handle rotation correctly. Or the Preview app in Mac OS X doesn’t handly it correctly. Oy!

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k-slug revived?

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

It looks like the Kansas State Linux Users Group (K-SLUG) is trying to be revived again. We’ll see how long it lasts this time.

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the week so far

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

It looks like it’s been a while since I’ve written I felt the need to update, but at the same time there’s nothing really newsworthy and exciting to report.

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keyboard lust

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

Mmm, I wouldn’t mind having a black one of these… Kinesis Advantage Keyboard

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work environment

Friday, July 15th, 2005

Prompted by Travis Bradshaw’s recent response to Jesse Greenwald’s post about office spaces and design, I started thinking about what my chances are of ending up in an environment like that instead of a cube farm or prison like I’ve had the pleasures of working in thus far.

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the python king

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

Forgot to mention in my last post — Travis provided me with a copy of his Drupal to WordPress conversion script that worked miracles in transferring all my old posts.

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new site

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

Thanks to Tyson’s awesome genorosity and a few hours debugging some random problems, I now have a new site powered by WordPress that doesn’t look completely horrid.
Anybody that had accounts before won’t have them now… but I won’t restrict comments either unless I have a problem with lots of spam again.

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whoops…

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

I love it when things like this happen, and I’m not the one screwing up.
10:40 [@A7hena] http://tinyurl.com/8rzjx
10:40 [@A7hena] Lion Mutilates 42 Midgets in Cambodian Ring-Fight
10:45 [@Windsor] Heather: I pasted that last Fri
10:45 [@Windsor] it’s also a spoof
10:45 [@A7hena] heather?
10:45 [@Windsor] er.. you
…. oops.

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break and the coming week

Monday, March 28th, 2005

Well, spring break came… and spring break went. It wasn’t all that exciting since I stayed in Manhattan and worked the whole time, but having the week off from classes was a nice change from the monotony of the last 2 months.

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