When I was growing up, we would color and paint eggs a day or two before Easter. Then, on Easter Sunday, the eggs were hidden around the back yard for us to find. I grew up in Florida. In the past two weeks, I’ve been to two different egg hunts, both involving plastic eggs with [...]
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Major Amazon Web Services outage today
Want to know which of your favorite sites use Amazon Web Services to deliver some or all of their content? Today’s a good day to find out. Just browse around and find all the ‘Sorry we’re down!’ messages. I’ve found reddit and Springboard myself. AWS is in the middle of a major outage that’s lasted [...]
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For grins I decided I’d try to write a (large) report I have to do for work using only Pages for iPad. The report isn’t due for a few months, and it’s the kind of thing I need to think about over time, so I figured it might be a good use of the iPad. [...]
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I came across a tiny news blurb that suggested Meredith Vieira might not be renewing her Today Show contract when it expires in September. That would be a shame. As much grief as I give Today when they go all Duggar on me, it really is the only show I watch in the morning. Ann [...]
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Taxes are finally done. I buckled down and devoted a Sunday afternoon to it. And I should point out that it’s around 80 degrees and beautiful here today, so it took all my strength to stay indoors. Every year there’s some sort of complicating wrinkle. This past year it was the small company I started [...]
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I’ve ignored this blog for the most part. Life has gotten in the way at the same time that the “blogosphere” (man, I hate that word) shifted, which resulted in me going long periods of time without updating here. There are some items I’d like to catch up on and otherwise vent some thoughts. I [...]
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My world became a little bit smaller this past Saturday morning when I lost my sweet grandma Nora, or Mema as we called her. Mrs. Nora L. Jackson, 89, of Albany died Saturday March 26, 2011 at Lee County Health Care. The funeral service will be held at 12:00 PM Monday March 28, 2011 at [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Apple TV thoughts
Mi hermano emailed me a few minutes ago asking if I had purchased an Apple TV and, if so, what were my thoughts? Good question. So far I’m happy with it, though the process of converting my existing media — which I purchased using money — is more difficult than I had hoped. First off, [...]
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Unfortunately, this is for the iPad2 cover, and not the iPad2 itself. Still, it’s fun to track it all the way from China. I’m a little confused by the date/time sorting.
Read the rest of this entry »Block commenting in vi
Finally took the time to learn how to do block commenting in vi. Found a great answer, courtesy this guy: Go to the first line you want commented, and hit V. Use your favorite method to reach the last line of the block. Type: :s/^/# / So thanks, Internet stranger.
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