Author: jason
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FiOS Still Rocks
Recently my DVR has been acting up. Its been working 100% fine, but I’ve been hearing the tell tale signs of hard drive or fan failure. Last night, in the middle of the night, it was the white noise was loud enough to wake me up (I was in bed, the DVR is downstairs!) I…
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Roger Waters is crazy live…
Regrettably, I was not able to make it one of Roger Waters’ recent modern The Wall shows. But, decent boots and youtube videos fill in the gap nicely. The one part I’m a little surprised that they’ll let him get away with is a pretty realistic simulation of machine gun fire at the end of…
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Streetview inside Google Data Centers
Pretty cool. Beyond the normal data center porn, I also liked when a disk fails, they erase it then crush it.
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Testing made easier in Internet Explorer
Virtual tools | Testing made easier in Internet Explorer | modern.IE. I thought saw Microsoft virtual machines for testing IE previously, but you probably had to be an MSDN member. Now it appears they’re ripe and ready for everyone. Yikes, they’re huge downloads! IE10 on Win8 is 2.5Gb, IE9 on Win7 is 4.7Gb! I wanna…
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Did you miss me?
Sorry, snow, nobody missed you. Light, fluffy, lake effect stuff is piling up fast.
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New Life Goal
Apparently, being the Starbucks pick of the week artist gets you free drinks… Guess I’ll have to start a music career. Or, maybe the author of the Starbucks app week also gets the same treatment? More likely to hit the latter than the former.
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Perl is not Dead…
An interesting presentation on the current state of my language of choice:
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101-Year-Old Marathoner
101-Year-Old Man Retires From Running Marathons, Shaming You. The gems in there are: that he didn’t start running until he was 89. even though he’s giving up competition, he still plans to run 4 hours a day. “I take happiness in biggest proportions though my actual diet is very small.”
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Word of the Day: Doppelgänger
Doppelgänger: In fiction and folklore, a doppelgänger (German, literally a “double goer”) is a paranormal double of a living person. (Wikipedia) Seems like there’s a lot going around. Also found this in my RSS feed today.
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Damn, missed a good show…
Umphrey’s McGee was in town a few weeks ago… The David Bowie cover was pretty sweet.