“Are you sure you want to do that?”

by Pete on June 20, 2006

I downloaded the Vista public beta when it was released a week or so ago, and yesterday, I got a new laptop. Being somewhat tired of the same-old same-old of XP installs, I decided to give the beta a try. (…)

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Site outage, etc.

by Pete on June 19, 2006

So apparently a storm knocked out the electricity here shortly after I left last week, and when the power came back up, the server picked up a different IP from the router. With port 80 requests still being forwarded to (…)

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Vacation

by Pete on June 10, 2006

I’m on vacation for the next week, so posts from now through next weekend (if any) will be few and far between. If you should decide to take advantage of this opportunity to break into my house and steal my (…)

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All Zarqawi, all the time.

by Pete on June 9, 2006

Well, it looks like all we’re going to hear about for at least the next week is that the US finally managed to find and kill Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. I’m sure this means we have finally turned the corner in (…)

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Same-Sex Unions, Part LXXVI

by Pete on June 8, 2006

To no one’s surprise, the hotly-debated Federal Marriage Amendment went down in defeat in the Senate yesterday, its supporters unable to muster even a simple majority of votes, let alone the 2/3 they needed to pass the legislation. Frankly, the (…)

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The DaVinci Code

by Pete on June 7, 2006

I went to see The DaVinci Code this past weekend. I saw it at what is usually the local cheap theater, but was surprised to find upon getting to the ticket window that they were charging the full $8 for (…)

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SLAYER!!!

by Pete on June 6, 2006

Today is 6/6/06, the National Day of Slayer. I will be listening to Slayer albums all day, including (but not limited to) the following: Reign In Blood South of Heaven Seasons in the Abysss God Hates Us All For more (…)

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Ubuntu 6.06

by Pete on June 5, 2006

After a minor amount of vacillation and with some trepidation, I updated my main computer to Ubuntu 6.06 on Saturday. I am pleased to report that at least thus far, everything seems to have gone fine. The update process itself (…)

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Vote early, and vote often.

by Pete on June 4, 2006

At the risk of being accused of protesting too much, let me state, once again and for the record, that while I find conspiracy theories amusing, I do not generally buy into them. Mostly, I find it hard to believe (…)

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The Walking Dead

by Pete on June 3, 2006

I mentioned a week or two ago that I had gotten sucked into reading comics. While that obsession has waned somewhat, there are still a couple of series occupying a fair amount of my time. At the top of the (…)

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