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Today is my last day working at Bascom.  I’ve been working there full-time for nearly six years and a year before that as an intern.  I’m very grateful for the past seven years.  It’s impossible to list all of the wonderful experiences and opportunities I had while at Bascom.  I can say that I worked [...]

The tech-news side of the Internet is in an uproar because Apple rejected the official Google Voice application for the iPhone and removed other applications that interacted with Google Voice.  I believe that the blocking of the Google Voice application is absurd, probably violates anti-trust laws, and definitely does violate my belief in a neutral [...]

I recently put a nice big hard drive in my file server.  I got a 1TB drive, which is kind of silly because I don’t have anywhere near that much data.  But, I figured that it’s better to be prepared.  I wanted to backup the data on the drive and Amazon’s S3 seemed like a [...]

I recently built a birdhouse for our backyard.  I went down to the library and took out “The Backyard Birdhouse Book” by René and Christyna M. Laubach.  I was very happy with this book.  It gave a lot of good, practical details about building birdhouses that actually benefit birds.  If you want to build a [...]

My family and I are going to be participating in the Relay for Life event in our town this weekend. Relay for Life is an event that raises money for the American Cancer Society. This description is from the Relay for Life website:
“Relay For Life is the American Cancer Society’s signature activity. It [...]

So, the whole country is in an uproar over these AIG bonuses.  According to Wikipedia, AIG has received over $170 billion in bailout money.  The bonuses that have been paid out total $165 million, although some sources are reporting the total to now be closer to $218 million.
Now, assuming the worst case of $218 million [...]

There’s this idea of ‘Email Bankruptcy‘ where after being inundated with incoming email and not having the time to reply to each one you just announce that you’re deleting them all and promise to be more vigilant in the future.  Well, I’m declaring blog bankruptcy.  I haven’t posted here in over 6 months.  There have [...]

It was again time for me to upgrade wordpress, so why not write up a post? Besides, Sid has been begging people to join planet.lilug.org. But we’ll get more posts on planet if we add more people and if those of us on planet post more often. So, here it is.
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John Kuczewski [...]

Jason and I have interesting exchanges on IRC:
13:39 < kupo> I just registered URMOMZ.com
13:40 < markdrago> kupo: nice
13:40 < kupo> markdrago: I feel like a million bux
13:40 < markdrago> yeah – hold on to that one forever.

We had another live airing of the Free Software Round Table last Saturday night.  One of the big news items in the Linux world was that Ubuntu had released the 7.10 version of their distribution, which is code named Gutsy Gibbon.  I had been running the previous version of Ubuntu on my laptop and decided [...]