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The Truth about Macs

April 6, 2007 By 1 Comment

This comic from CTRL+ALT+DEL may be from last year, but it’s still very good. BTW, I’m not anti-Mac. I just like to be able to change my hardware when I want to change it!

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Akismet Auntie Spam for WordPress

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Akismet Auntie Spam for WordPress is a Greasemonkey script that makes managing the spam caught by Akismet and checking for false positives a hell of a lot easier. I’ve written before about ways that I’d like to see the Akismet interface improved and Engtech’s script takes a step in the right direction by truncating long [...]

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What a difference a fan makes

April 6, 2007 By 5 Comments

About 30 minutes ago the this computer (a Packard Bell) went from being reasonably quite to suddenly sounding like a 747 landing in my garden. The reason for the sudden decibel jump was because one of the wings in the fan decided to it wanted independence and spontaneously divorced itself from the rest of the [...]

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Twitter showing in Google Alerts

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Google Alerts is now monitoring Twitter streams. This morning , my Twitter feed showed up in one of my (vanity) searches using Google Alerts. Google Web Alert for: Paul OFlaherty Twitter / Paul OFlaherty: Oops… Twitter is soooo sl…Oops… Twitter is soooo slow– i though my post failed and reposted! Sorry! 10:11 PM March 20, [...]

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