Monthly Archives: August 2005

Modern Windows Software

August 30, 2005 – 8:16 pm

(NOTE: This is a rant. This is nothing more than a rant. This post will not change the world. If you have something to do now, go do it instead of reading on. In summary: Mcafee sucks. Mcafee AntiVirus sucks. Windows sucks. Don’t use it. :)
Writing software is always trying to find the balance between [...]

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Birthday

August 20, 2005 – 8:20 pm

Today is my birthday. I registered to vote.
I also recieved a letter from the Selective Service System reminding me I had to sign up. Pretty impressive that they timed it to arrive on the day of my birthday.

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and four months later…ubuntu cds!

August 10, 2005 – 10:39 pm

I can’t believe this, the hoary CDs that I ordered in late April arrived in the mail today. I had given up all hope on these. Would have been really nice to have had these a few months ago when hoary was the new thing, now its almost all about breezy =/.
I noticed these CDs [...]

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How to not write software

August 8, 2005 – 8:49 pm

This could also be entitled “Why I hate Microsoft software”:

Uh, I guess I’ll restart?

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Verizon Upgrades?

August 4, 2005 – 9:36 am

It seems that as of yesterday I can now send/receive text messages as well as recieve voice mail notifications while my phone is on “Extended Network”! Still no 1x data though.. I wonder if e911 location works, that has always worried me.
Now if only Verizon didn’t charge so much for messaging…

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