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A thought to think

I've been knocked off my sleep schedule this week -- I had to test some sleeping medication I need for an upcoming business trip and verify that I wouldn't have any unanticipated side effects before I was in Australia and unable to do anything about it. Read More...
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2008 01 31

Devin

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Sorry, LJ

I'm getting really bloody tired of LJ's RSS feed reader deciding to re-read old posts from my blog. Apologies to the 20 or so people who still read this blog's LJ feed. I'm starting to think I need to just ask LJ to remove the devinonearth feed entirely Read More...
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2007 09 18

Devin

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Living with Asperger's on the road and on the stage

Four 3-day trips in four weeks: Apr 2-4, Orlando, to present 3 hours of sessions at Exchange Connections. Apr 8-10, Denver, to be the main speaker at the Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging Roadshow. Apr 18-20, Anaheim, to be the main speaker at the Exchange Read More...
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2007 04 25

Devin

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Spoiler ettiquette reminder

This isn't aimed at anyone in particular whose blog I read, or who I know reads this blog, but more of a general comment prompted by the reaction of a friend who just received a huge Battlestar Galactica season 3 (the current season) spoiler on Digg: Read More...
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2007 03 6

Devin

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Using Macs

I refer you all now to the truth about switching , a nice little blog post that is refreshingly clear of hype and hyperbole. Now that we're all on the same page, on to my additional commentary. Too true. It's a lot more friendly, though, than Read More...
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2007 03 4

Devin

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2006 is the Year of the Outage

It's been an awfully long time since I last posted, hasn't it? As you may have guessed by now, it is because of, yet again, another computer outage at home. In this case, my Windows domain controller hard drive died. Dead. Kaput. Spins No More. Read More...
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2006 11 21

Devin

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Learning curve

Apologies to those of you reading this on RSS who may have seen two copies of the previous post. I swear, one of these days I'll figure out how not to duplicate posts when trying to edit them. Read More...
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2006 10 17

Devin

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Back!

Boy howdy, that was quite an excessively long break.That'll teach me to patch my servers! You see, back in late August, I was being a good server admin and making sure all of my servers had the latest patches on them. The last server I updated was my Read More...
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2006 09 27

Devin

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RSS feed glitch

Whoa! I just now saw that folks on the LJ feed (possibly on the RSS feed) got to see the Firefly review I did all over again. Sorry about that; it wasn't intentional! (I was just fixing a couple of transcription errors that kept the hyperlink to Nick's Read More...
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2006 08 15

Devin

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Upgrades and changes

As you may have figured out by now (if you read this site in your browser instead of via RSS or LJ), there's been another small change around here. I just got done upgrading to Community Server 2.1 , the latest and greatest version of the blog software Read More...
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2006 08 12

Devin

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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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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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The illusion of health and the application of geektoys

We've been getting over the flu here at Casa del Ganger. For the past several weeks, I've been feeling under the weather to a greater or lesser extent, so I'd slow down and try to get extra rest, etc. After a few days I'd feel better, so I'd go back to Read More...
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2006 02 16

Devin

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Suckiest weekend ever

Last week, we'd been making a big push to finish getting the house cleaned up (my server area and office -- two separate areas at opposite ends of the house, for those who haven't been here) before Friday evening because Treanna was supposed to have an Read More...
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2006 01 25

Devin

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It's funny because it's true; it hurts because it's true

Thanks to net.friend larabeaton (from back in my rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan days, back when I still read Robert Jordan) I ran across this tender musical moment from Australian comedy group Tripod. This one was funny because it was a bulls-eye; Read More...
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2006 01 17

Devin

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Guilty pleasures

It's all Steph's fault. No, really. She's the one who introduced me to Il Divo , a new male chorale group put together by American Idol's venom-tongued emcee Simon Cowell. These guys have some serious opera and theater cred, and I shamefully confess that Read More...
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2006 01 13

Devin

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Software update

I've updated the Community Server software to version 1.1. Things should look a touch different, since 1.1 has a lot more functionality. I'll probably be updating to one of the beta versions of 2.0 here in the next couple of weeks, which will make everything Read More...
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2005 12 15

Devin

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No stopping for CO2

I really should have done it months ago. Last weekend, I gave up pop (or soda, or soda pop, or Coke -- whatever you call it in your neck of the woods) again. This time, other than an occasional treat, I think I've given it up for good. Now that I'm trying Read More...
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2005 12 7

Devin

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I'm lazy

If you've ever met me in person (or seen a full-body photograph of me), then you know that I'm more than a touch convex. The life of a sysadmin doesn't really include enough of the right type of exercise to keep a body trim and slim, and the life of a Read More...
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2005 11 10

Devin

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And of course it all makes sense now

The insomnia, the puffy feeling in the eyes, the last few days of sneezing and phlegm that I thought was just allergies being kicked into high gear because of the shift in temperature and weather. No, no. The chest cough and raspy throat confirm it. I'm Read More...
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2005 10 12

Devin

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A camper's concoction by any other name

Can you still call it a s'more when: You're using Nutella instead of chocolate squares You're using pre-sized graham cracker squares You're using a propane grill to toast the marshmellows While we may not know the ultimate answer, we Washington Gangers Read More...
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2005 08 1

Devin

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Yo Missy!

Um, Missy dear, what exactly have you been telling the fine Exchange ladies and gentlemen about me? I'm taking an incredible ration of shit from the assorted suspects and they keep mentioning your name. And Tom, your name has gotten taken in vain more Read More...
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2005 05 4

Devin

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Not my weekend

Not my weekend for computer issues, so far. My Mac mini has been experiencing some weird display problems -- the ViewSonic LCD flat panel I have would randomly lose the display and not be able to get it back again. At first, I thought it was related to Read More...
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2005 04 16

Devin

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Community Server roster

Since I've been rooting around for good example skins and skinning references for Community Server, I figured I'd kill two birds with one stone and start keeping a list of all the resources I found. I've posted the result over on my work blog and plan Read More...
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2005 04 8

Devin

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Comments are fixed

Thanks to Alistair (an old net.friend from the long-ago days when I was still a practicing BOFH and denizen of the Scary Devil Monastery) and Ken at Telligent (the fine programmers of Community Server), the problem has been cleared up and anonymous posts Read More...
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2005 04 1

Devin

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Comments aren't working

For some reason, comments aren't working on my blog. This explains why I'm not seeing any. I'm working to track down and fix the problem. Read More...
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2005 03 31

Devin

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