A long time ago, back when I actually used my LiveJournal account, I created a community that became relatively popular. which was originally intended as a space to directly post things for sale so that you could avoid the costs and pains involved in eBay and its ilk. Well, I had to establish some pretty [...]
Read more →There was a bit of a housing panic last week when Tania spoke quickly with the upstairs neighbour. They own this house, and since she is pregnant they’ve decided that they need more space, and have decided to sell the house, so they need us to be ready for the eventual tours of agents and [...]
Read more →Well, nothing that requires buying beer for your friends, this is the moving around of files on a couple of relatively small hard drives in the file server. I’ve created an LVM volume group with just the new drive, and then moved files to clear off another drive, and added it to the LVM. I’m [...]
Read more →The primary rule when working with any sort of technical equipment is, or should be, don’t fuck with it when you’re not on top of your game, no matter how simple the problem would appear. I’ve been dealing with a bit of a mind-altering cold or flu for the past couple days, and for some [...]
Read more →I’ve pretty much run out of ways to talk about Marqui. I’m just not a potential customer, and I find it to be a bit more work to use their product than it would be to hire someone to maintain the company web site for me. There are a number of interesting things that can [...]
Read more →One of those crazy CSI:Miami types has a story revolving around him being a man whore, hooking up via “toothing” – you know, that totally made up use of Bluetooth technology for having anonymous sex with people that are sharing your commute on the train. From Wikipedia; Toothing is a media hoax which claimed that [...]
Read more →I ran out of space quickly on my free Flickr account when I started uploading a bunch of graffiti images to share with graffiti groups, and so I decided that it was about time that I handed over my cash to upgrade. Well, I did it just in time, it would appear, as they’re handing [...]
Read more →“Poke out your eye with a microwave french fry” Lyrics were something along the lines of “Take out some french fries, put them in the microwave, turn it on high, when it’s done, take it out, poke out your eye.” All twenty something seconds of Texas metal. There’s other stuff on the album that I’d [...]
Read more →My antique, one of a kind canine has come to the end of her life. She’s been in a long, slow decline since she hit her second decade, and we knew that she was lucky to have gone that far, as so few dogs get that much time. According to the SPCA when we adopted [...]
Read more →Surprisingly good phishing scam posing as an Interac Money Transfer… Replacing the string after “pID” in the URL that “Marybeth” sends us results in a seemingly infinite number of laptop payments for $975…. and all you have to do is login to your Online Banking system with your bank. Oddly, any combination of login and [...]
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