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A Bunch of What If’s and a Revelation

On February 21, 2011 By

Late last night while I was trying to get comfortable on the couch after being displaced from my bed by the kids my brain started running. That’s not that unusual.

What if there were an application (we’ll call it a service from here on out) for your computer or server that allowed you to write [...]

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Chrome or Chromium

On May 7, 2010 By

Ok so you have an Ubuntu machine, a netbook or maybe you got gutsy and installed it on an old piece of crap Dell like I did, but you got used to using Chrome on your Windows machine and Mac. Ok, well you can use Chromium, the open source version of Google’s Chrome or you [...]

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Easy LAMP on Ubuntu 10.04

On May 7, 2010 By

Setting up Apache, MySQL and PHP with all their libraries on a fresh install of Linux can be a pain in the butt especially if you’re in a hurry or busy multitasking (read: keeping the carpet crawlers entertained). But if you want to get your own web server up and running in a matter of minutes [...]

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Weird Dreams

On May 1, 2010 By

I had a dream last night I went to the Apple Store in Palo Alto and saw Woz at the counter. I went over to the counter, introduced myself and shook his hand. He just stared at me.

Next time I’ll ask him to sign my pocket protector.

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Tweeting About Twittering

On April 25, 2009 By

A long, long time ago I joined Twitter. That was before all the celebrities and the mad rush by the general masses caused it to explode into a web phenomena. Back then it was more frequently down than up and the “We’ll be right back” message was an hourly occurrence. I’ve got to say Twitter [...]

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