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Haven’t had any new posts in almost a week. Here is what’s going on in my life: 1. Started going to Bingo at my local church two weeks ago. Last week I won 3 games. 2. Went to a Tea Party march yesterday. I was surprised how many people honked and cheered for us on [...]

the internet is weird here. and it’s very hot. i hate laptops. At home it’s 99 degrees but it never reached that here. i hate the taste of hard alcohol even though the entire country likes it. there is just no sugaring out that terrible medicine taste. i’m getting kinda bored too. i was up [...]

I’m an eBay addict, and if you are too, you know it’s very easy to buy used and cheap CDs. You can even get rare and out-of-print CDs, some obscure ones go for over $100! However, often times people take advantage of the rarity of some CDs to sell unsuspecting (or, sometimes, desperate) people bootlegs. [...]

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I haven’t written here in a while, been busy. Slackware is back on my machine. I remember someone years ago in a chat room saying that “Slackware eats your soul” and it does. Yet I can’t stand the “easier” ones – I always come back to Slackware. Using the 64-bit version, which gives me more [...]

You might have heard of computer supplier Newegg accidentally shipping computer builders boxed “processors”. This is no ordinary counterfeit import issue – I found a nice article describing the shipments – the CPU was a piece of lead, with a sticker of a fan attached to a “heatsink” piece of molded plastic. And, of course, [...]

From Engadget: Since 1977, RSA public-key encryption has protected privacy and verified authenticity when using computers, gadgets and web browsers around the globe, with only the most brutish of brute force efforts (and 1,500 years of processing time) felling its 768-bit variety earlier this year. Now, [three people] at the University of Michigan claim they [...]

For the past several weeks I was working on something – mentioned here before, an attempt at a calculator RPG which doesn’t use excessive amounts of memory, unlike other programs which would freeze up at the very beginning of the game. After weeks of being up at night listening to my favorite night talk radio [...]

I am now running a server for the game UrbanTerror! See the tab above for more information. This server will run for at least three months.

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