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All of my domains are currently suffering from a slight case of temporal jet lag and are floating around in domain limbo…
Fun times indeed.
So I’ve just finished moving 976MB of MySQL data from one server to another, that sucked royally. Apparntly 1&1 only allows you to upload SQL files that are less than 8,192kb, which [...]

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As unexciting as it sounds, I’m thinking about purchasing a scooter. Mainly for my girlfriend to use, as currently she just steals my car all the time. I figure it’d be a decent investment considering a basic scooter gets 3x the MPG of my car, and the yearly operating costs would be significantly less than [...]

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We are totally screwed…

Remember when $127 a barrel was record high? Think again.
Expect gas prices to jump sometime within the next few days.

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So apparently TV writers share their random trivia between networks, because last night on both The Big Bang Theory on CBS, and Bones on Fox, they mentioned Schr√∂dinger’s cat.
For those of you who don’t know the back story behind the theory, here’s a quick rundown from Wikipedia:
A cat, along with a flask containing a [...]

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Apparently when you’re rich you can make thousands of people wear stupid looking badges…
I just received the entry badges for the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting and man,  they are ugly! See for yourself:

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This is Walter 2.0, my latest Lego creation. He stands 16.25″ high, and is 10″ wide at his shoulders.
I built the first version last Christmas when my cousins were visiting, I have since found a few minutes to refine the design. The biggest thing I’ve changed is I’ve added a central nervous system

What makes [...]

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For no real reason other than the fact that I could, I took a picture of an Eee PC stacked on top of a MacBook, stacked on top of a MacBook Pro.

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How many words per minute can you type? I’m currently averaging around 65 90 WPM, with a top speed of 160.¬† But before this last week I had no idea how fast I could type, and that’s where Keybr.com comes into play, not only can it tell you how many WPM you type, it can [...]

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They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but apparently that doesn’t apply to Google, although it is slightly reassuring to know that their server clusters don’t actually incorporate human hearts. I digress. Over the course of a few days I’ve all but disappeared from the hollowed pages of Google Search, major bummer, I used [...]

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Here’s a random story about an equally random event in my life…
Last night I went to a local restaurant with my fellow blogger Fred, after placing my order I dug into my wallet and produced a ten dollar bill, I then handed it to the cashier who cast a rather suspicious glance at the bill [...]

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