Archive > August 2004

E Minus 70 and counting

Well we have a whole 70 (ish) days to go until the democratic process has once again been discharged in the US and everyone can go back to bitching about the guy who won / didn’t.

In my exaustive search for updates to the political process I cam across this piece over at Defective Yeti [...]

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And a brief apology

to anyone who popped in (or tried to) during the upgrade to EE 1.1 – it didn’t go as smoothly as planned but then it is rather their fault for not telling me that overwritting my path.php file was a bad idea!!!

But what the hell, thanks to their excellent support community I was up and [...]

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DIY Terminal Server – a Caveat

As Jeremy over at Ensight has included my post on rigging RDC for true remote access in his ClipBlog, I feel it would be prudent of me to clear up a couple of things that I didn’t mention in the original post.
Firstly, my tutorial is strictly for the home user. It is in no way [...]

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DIY Terminal Server

For those of you who don’t know what a terminal server is a bit of background will be required. The idea is the you have a powerful server running all the applications you need (word, IE, Photoshop, whatever) and then you have cheap, low powered workstations that simply act as a monitor and a keyboard [...]

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Browser Wars are Back?

Those lovely and very intelligent people over at the Web Standards Project have started a new intiative under the snappy title “Browse Happy”.

The main premise of this initiative is to educate the world at large that IE is unsafe. And let’s face it, spyware, virii deliberately targeted at the Microsoft browser, tens of security updates [...]

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Life update

Well things have been a little quiet here at chez XSet and I figure I owe what’s left of my readership something of an explanation. And no this is no going to be an apology for “quiet posting” as that would be in direct breach of the laws of blogging, which of course I do [...]

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Could be a tight squeeze!

(Thanks to one of my esteemed collegues for passing this on…)

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One week later…

And I’m back with a quiz!

Grover on Ecstasy

You’re funny, you’re loveable, you’re entertaining, you like to call yourself “Super Grover!”–You’re obviously on ecstasy. But that’s why we love you. Be careful, ok?

Which Sesame Street Muppet’s Dark Secret Are You?
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Yeah but it’s a dry heat

It is seriously hot tonight. Hot and sticky and almost impossible to get to sleep.

We need a thunderstorm and we need one soon. One thing that made this evening more interesting than normal was the small contingent of black beetles that greeted me on my return to the apartment. I sheparded them back out into [...]

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Blog incest and the better things in life

This kind of thing is why my little sister is going to go far.

And by way of explaining the post title, sheâ??s both my blog sister and my blog daughter … go figure.

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