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Entries for March, 2008

Updated to Leopard

Yesterday I picked up Apple’s latest OS, Leopard OS X 10.5. What is really cool is the boot camp feature. I am now dual booting Windows Vista and OSX on my little 13 inch MacBook. If I had the cash I would have gotten a MacBook pro, but it is just so expensive. I have [...]

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links for 2008-03-29

1UP Cakes – Instructables – DIY, How To, food, games (tags: food nintendo recipes)

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Google Maps Street View comes to Madison!

Although, not as exciting as my street view in Portland, I live way back in the apartments in the back. No street passes by it. Although this is pretty cool. Good way to find your way around, or at least not get lost. But remember, Google Maps gets you lost! Technorati Tags: Google Maps,Street View,Madison,WI,Wisconsin,Portland

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Amazon S3 and WordPress Video Site – 2 Hour Project – What A Debacle

About a month ago, I wanted to test using Amazon’s S3 service, for storage. I couldn’t think of any quick, easy projects to use it for, then it hit me, how about video/photos? I decided to see how long it would take for me to make a video site, with comments, views, etc, on a [...]

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Windows Live Writer – API Open (not really) – I Want To Download Existing Posts

So, I am sitting here scratching my head again. I use Windows Live Writer (WLW) to post to my blog. I like it, it rocks. There is a plugin architecture, which is cool, and some other API’s for doing things.

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Salon Transcripts (STX) – Using Remotely – Opening Ports, Port Forwarding

A little background: Salon Transcripts (STX) is a Salon Management program for Mac’s. It is used by salon’s all over the country, small and large shops. The site they have is basically for sales. Tech support is 18 dollars per call/email, etc. They don’t have much for documentation, much less connecting remotely. I was tasked [...]

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Repressed Memory from High School: Wearing Baseball Stirrups Playing Basketball

In high school, playing basketball for Chisholm High, we had to wear baseball stirrups (leggings). See the above picture. As you can see, these are listed on amazon as “Baseball Stirrups“ See you might be fooled when looking at the first picture that these are socks, but alas, they are stirrups. What a PITA. Uncomfortable, [...]

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WordPress on IIS 6.0, Windows 2003 – Some Tweaks (URL Rewrite and SMTP)

OK so I lied. Everything wasn’t working after I set up my WordPress blog on IIS 6.0 on Windows 2003. Two things were broke: SMTP (email from the blog) and URL Rewrites/Permalinks. SMTP worked through IIS just fine, I could telnet and send email out, but from WordPress, it was getting a 501 error. From [...]

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links for 2008-03-21

moq – Google Code (tags: .net programming) YouTube – Obama’s 2002 Speech Against the War, Delivered by Supporters (tags: obama war video) YouTube – Barack Obama on Iraq, Opposition from the Start (tags: obama war video) Snarl like growl, for windows (tags: programming .net) Yoics, Remote Access & Share (almost) anything. (tags: networking remoteaccess) PHP [...]

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Minnesota Smoking Ban Loophole: Theatrical Performances

Last weekend, I was up in Chisholm, Minnesota for my Grandfather’s 80th birthday. After the party, we headed downtown Chisholm to check out my step sisters boyfriend play in his band, at Sabin’s bar. Now, Minnesota passed a smoking ban (Freedom to Breathe Act) in bars and restaurants in October 2007. This means NO SMOKING. [...]

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