And the winner is…

Photography on November 27th, 2009 No Comments

It was a tight race up until the end, with some last minute heroics thrown in there, but I’m glad to announce I do have a winner for my photo contest.

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Have your say… ****UPDATED****

Miscellaneous on November 3rd, 2009 No Comments
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I need to update the photographs I have on display at Buffalo Wild Wings in Mattoon and I am asking for your input.

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Building a Backblaze Storage Pod

Backblaze, Computer Stuff on October 15th, 2009 13 Comments

Any visitor to my site can see I’m a user and promoter of Backblaze’s online backup service (and if you’re not backing up your data, you should really give them a look.) Backblaze provides unlimited storage for $5 a month of $50 a year and does all of the heavy lifting in the background without bugging you about the details. You read that right, unlimited storage for $5 a month. Blasphemy? Black magic? Voodoo? Nope. They created their own storage pod that is capable of holding 67 terabytes of data per pod – for  $7867 per pod. What they did with that design next is just plain awesome. They gave the design away to the public.
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Interesting Safari 4.0.2 Behavior

Computer Stuff, Miscellaneous on July 10th, 2009 No Comments

The easiest way to describe what is going on is to have a look at the screen capture of the issue in action.
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Killer Update

Miscellaneous, Software Updates, Updates, Web Design on June 12th, 2009 No Comments

Yesterday I ran the 2.8 update for WordPress (the excellent software this blog is running on.)  Instead of applying the update like I apply ever other web-based software update (moving each file and folder over one at a time), I decided to use WordPress’ built in updater. Oh boy.

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