March 2006 - Posts

Observations on Obtaining One's Passport

Somewhere in the instructions, the Department of State website, or the various other places that talk about the process, there should be a warning that your birth certificate will be sent into the processing center and returned with your passport. It's Read More...
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2006 03 31

Devin

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My week, summarized

I've been silent on the blogging front lately, so here's a quick update on what I've been up to this last week: Monday: I was coming down the stairs to head to my office to begin my work day, and suddenly I was at the bottom of the stairs with a concussion. Read More...
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2006 03 31

Devin

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Should have known

I should have known, from first thing yesterday morning, what kind of day it was going to be. Starting with sleeping through the alarm I'd set so I could get up and get a headstart to a long day, right through trying to change the roll of toilet paper Read More...
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2006 03 10

Devin

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Yeah, that would do it

When I did my last round of server and desktop deployments here at the house [1] , I tried to set up each of my servers (Windows Server 2003) with at least 256MB of RAM and each of the desktops (Windows XP Pro) with 512MB. That may sound backwards, but Read More...
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2006 03 8

Devin

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Kids, don't try this at home!

Today, I did something I'd never done before. It was risky and a bit scary, and I don't recommend it as a general procedure for everyone. Yes, I upgrade my new Window Mobile Pocket PC. What made it risky was that I upgraded it to the ROM images that didn't Read More...
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2006 03 7

Devin

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One last bug

I don't know whether folks reading this via RSS got it too, or whether it's just a quirk of Livejournal's RSS feed system, but for some reason when LJ finally picked up my new blog posts this afternoon (so why do they claim it scans new feeds every hour Read More...
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2006 03 3

Devin

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Thanks, Scott!

Thanks to the timely comment from Scott Watermasysk , the developer of .Text (which became the blog engine for Community Server), we've got our technical glitches sorted out and everything should be working normally. How often have you had a software Read More...
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2006 03 3

Devin

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Upgrade woes and date night!

How wonderfully frustrating, in a minor way. Last night, I upgraded from Community Server 1.1 to 2.0, which offers tons of new features, better performance, a hugely improved administrative interface, a better skinning model -- in short, lots of crunchy Read More...
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2006 03 3

Devin

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