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The Deathmatch Diaries

Technology by the Space Cowboy

Thank You, Goodbye, Hello
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[info]spacecowb0y
It's time for me to move away from LiveJournal.

Lots of reasons to go, lots of things I'll miss, ultimately a time for a fresh change of pace to find efficiency and comfort in simplicity.

Find me at Rocket Jumper, my new tumblelog. Join me if you find Tumblr as clean and interesting and stupidly simple as I do.

THANK YOU for letting me be a part of your Friends Pages for over a thousand posts. Here's to tens of thousands more. See you on the other side.
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Power Underwhelming
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[info]spacecowb0y
It's been a week since the storm knocked out our power, and thanks to the awesome bureaucracy of Philippine utility companies, there's still no end in sight for my power- and computerlessness. Times like these, I really should look into investing in a laptop - it's just that the scrooge in me can't bring myself to spend twice as much for half the specs and lifespan. Oh well, at least I learned that WoW runs on an Intel GMA 950 chip, albeit just enough for basic chatting and AH/banking.

So, long story short, I'm still S.O.L., and I'll get back to the usual news scraping once things have normalized around here. Thanks for bearing with me in these troubled times.
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Self-Aneurism is My Super Power
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Due to the discovery of a virus on our network last night, I seem to have given myself a vicious migraine just worrying about how to fix it; I've had a non-stop headache pounding at my skull since last night. Unfortunately, because of this, I'm unable to sit at my computer for any extended length of time, much less peruse the tubes for news fit to post.

That said, I'm going to be taking a blogging break for the rest of the week (with some minor entries that cheer me up/make me laugh now and then), but I'll be back in the saddle to corral them tech news come Monday. See you guys then, and hope the throbbing veins in my head don't pop anytime soon.
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It's Haiku Time Again
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[info]spacecowb0y
The day you perish
The world will not shed a tear
You will not be missed
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Before You Do Something Stupid, Like Say, Talk Out of Your Ass without Knowing Your Shit
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[info]spacecowb0y
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
-- Newton's Third Law of (Social) Motion
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Free Burma!
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A Minority of One
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He wondered, as he had many times wondered before, whether he himself was a lunatic. Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the earth goes round the sun; today, to believe that the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him: the horror was that he might also be wrong.
-- Winston Smith, in 1984
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The Harshest Judge
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People Like You
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[info]spacecowb0y
I wanted a genuine admission of guilt.

That's something that you're not gonna get from someone like Baltar. He doesn't see himself that way. It's not who he is. In his eyes, he's the victim, not the criminal. It's not too late for him to just disappear.
-- Admiral Adama, in Battlestar Galactica
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Borders Fixed
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[info]spacecowb0y
The image border issue I encountered in the previous LiveJournal release has been fixed with today's r12 release. Big thanks to [info]burr86 for hearing out the problem in the original thread and for its subsequent rectification. Happy birthday, Abe!
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Ritual
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[info]spacecowb0y
My father used to break pencils before he went into court, and borrow one from the clerk. Break preconceptions, work with what you have.
-- Admiral Adama, in Battlestar Galactica
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Vanishing Posts
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[info]spacecowb0y
Today my LiveJournal woes continue. This time it's a case of my own posts vanishing, reappearing, then vanishing again on my Friends page. Why me why me why me?
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Borders
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[info]spacecowb0y
Something got changed on LiveJournal (I suspect an unintentional bug in the recent r11 release) that made all the borders I've assigned to images disappear. Nothing major, of course, but the obsessive-compulsive detail demon inside of me is screaming.

What a difference one pixel makes.
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The Universal Greeting
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[info]spacecowb0y
Bah weep granah weep ninni bong!
-- Kup, in Transformers: The Movie
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You'll Never Believe the Source
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[info]spacecowb0y
Sometimes I'm angry to meet excessively nice people, without reason. But if I stare at the nice person's eyes. I become angrier about myself.
-- Mero, from MashiMaro
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It's a Vicious Cycle
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[info]spacecowb0y
I eat because I'm unhappy, and I'm unhappy because I eat.
-- Fat Bastard, in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
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I Admit It
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[info]spacecowb0y
I hunger for subculture because I can't fit in anywhere else.
-- Me, on why my soul lives on the Internet
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(no subject)
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Alas, I'm only rich in information.
-- Me, on buying stuff
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The Burning Question
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This isn't a blog, it's a train-of-thought linking website.
-- My default answer when asked what my "blog" is about
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<3
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[info]spacecowb0y
This heart goes out to all those who lost their lives or were injured in the massacre at Virgina Tech.


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