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Entries Tagged as 'General Interest'

The Evolution of My Password

October 29th, 2007 No Comments

It is with fear and trepidation that I enter this week.  The reason?  Next week, I will be required to change my password on our LAN, an event that now occurs at least once per quarter.  Why should this cause anxiety?  Three reasons:

It will take me a week to figure out a good password that [...]

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muteDonkey Nominations: Week of Oct 29, 2007.

October 29th, 2007 No Comments

Submit your nominee for the muteDonkey of the Week contest.  You can submit your nominee by commenting on this post with their picture and a story about why thy deserve this honorable distinction. Yes, you can nominate yourself.  Politicians, Hollywood Elites, and Lawyers are always fair game. These folks generally prove to be muteDonkeys on a regular basis, so it shouldn’t be difficult to [...]

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is anybody out there?

October 26th, 2007 No Comments

It is with a bit of sad resignation that I have to admit that Despair has it right (like most of the stuff on the site).
 
I can’t confirm it for sure, but I think that I am the only person that actually reads this blog.  I am certainly the only person that posts to it.  [...]

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Funny Words and Phrases

October 25th, 2007 No Comments

Lets face it.  Some people are more clever than others and use great words and phrases as just part of their daily lexicon.  I am going to keep listening and updating this post as I run across new material.  Here is what I have so far…
Phrases:

Farting against thunder  (SH)
The natural progression is Crawl, Walk, Run, but instead we seem [...]

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“Imaging” your Web Address Icon

October 24th, 2007 No Comments

I wanted the web address icon to be an image that I selected instead of the standard IE “e” image.  Simple enough.  I search the web and found some posts that explained how to do it.  I tried and tried, with no success.  Eventually, I happened upon a nice little website in the UK that [...]

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Did you get my Skype picture?

October 6th, 2007 No Comments

A little background: As a group, we had just started using Skype for the majority of our chat and calls. One of the fun things about Skype is that you can personalize it, including adding a picture that describes you a little better than the default Skype picture, which is:

This image appears in the contacts [...]

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