Category Archives: geek

Coming to you from Media Temple

I’m in the process of switching all my hosted sites over to a new provider: Media Temple. I wasn’t pleased with the speed of my previous providers, and a billing issue kinda pushed me over the edge. I did some … Continue reading

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Extending System Partition

Warning! Heavy geek speak coming. Do not attempt anything below unless you know how to do a complete restore from backup, including rebuilding your Master Boot Record. If you don’t know what a LUN is (no, not Mr. Lunt) then … Continue reading

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Suboptimal code

I got a new shirt as part of a promotion. Philip, where’s your picture?

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Job Opening – Sr. Software Engineer

This just came across my desk… a contact at The MathWorks is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer in Multicore/Parallel Applications.? These are the guys that build MATLAB and Simulink, so I would think this would a good team to … Continue reading

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geek stuff

I love this picture:

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book list

For some odd reason, I decided to check out perlmonks, a website for perl programmers. I don’t program perl, and I really don’t have a desire to program in perl. I don’t know why I ended up there. Anyway, Larry … Continue reading

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Carnegie Mellon Dropout

I just created a new shirt…actually, it’s a reproduction of a shirt I saw a long time ago, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. Here it is: Carnegie Mellon Dropout by ndewitt Click on it if you’d like to buy … Continue reading

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Typical Morning

When I came in this morning Betty told me Dave was looking for me. After tracking Dave down on the floor, he told me he was getting conflicting reports from the supervisors. Basically TheBigMainApp was down. The supervisor said everyone … Continue reading

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oooo… pretty statistics…

I installed MZ-Tools 3.0, an add-in for Visual Basic 6.0. Yes, I know we’re at least 3 versions beyond VB6, but some of us have to maintain these applications… Anyway, it has a bunch of nifty features, and it’s free, … Continue reading

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Migrating from VSS to Subversion

http://geekswithblogs.net/chadsblog/archive/2006/03/29/73750.aspx

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