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Work has been insane lately. Big projects all happening at the same time and things going wrong unexpectedly. I’m writing because I finally have a 4 day break from work. 4 days is just long enough to stop thinking about all the stressful things I’m confronted with during
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I had a serious issue after updating my blog to the Word Press 2012 Theme. The font looked like CRAP on my home PC and my Work Laptop. Doing a little bit of research on the new Open Sans Font I learned I needed to go to: Control Panel >
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I recently got it into my head to migrate to AWS and Gallery3. As part of the migration to Gallery3 I stupidly converted all of my image resize versions to 640x480. This is pathetically small but only took overnight on the web server under my desk. With everything now on
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If the site appears to load a little faster and pictures download a bit snappier that's because I recently migrated from the web server under my desk to an Amazon AWS Micro Instance. I'm still running Ubuntu, but it's in "The Cloud"
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As usual it's been forever since I've updated my site. I went to see all of those shows in the previous post and they were awesome. Especially Menomena and The Thermals. Say Anything was pretty sweet too. I finished a simple Android app that can be
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Tonight I started and almost finished the framework for my first Android app. 1. Edit my manifest to give me permissions to receive and read SMS. 2. Edit my manifest to point to a receiver class for SMS events. 3. Create a main class to stop and start the background
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Thanks to a very helpful Devon Kerr I now know what parts of my PC were causing my prior trouble. I was running a Core 2 Duo 3.0GHz LGA 775 in an Asus Striker Extreme mobo with 4GB of DDR2 800 RAM. I played around with every possible video
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I haven't posted in quite a while. That time has been filled with all sorts stuff. I've been riding my motorcycle around, going camping and Jeeping, Ward's wedding, more motorcycling, and just hanging out with people around Raleigh and Chapel Hill. I guess I&
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Just got back from Jeeping with Wes in Uwharrie. Wes decided to break in his BRAND NEW Jeep on the trail. He seriously got it no more than 10 days ago. It's a 2004, but it was in pristine condition at the beginning of the day. I fixed
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So I've switched to WordPress on a newfangled server (ok just a newer old server, my old 2.4GHz P4 "Quagmire"). Migrating all of my Serendipity posts out was sort of a bitch. I lost all my comments, and am thinking of adding them back. Here&
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I just picked my 05 WK up from the shop last night. As promised here are the pictures of before and after, and some info for you. Jeep: 05 WK 4.7L Laredo Lift: 4" Superlift w/ SSR Shocks Install Difficulty & Time: Professional Installation at 4WheelParts, 3 Days.
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I think I'm going to start taking pictures of projects and posting instructions. I always find the instructions to all sorts of things lacking. The only way I figure stuff out is to sit down and actually look at it. Hopefully this will help some random internet user,