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easySMF

Wow, cool little tool…

http://es.opensolaris.org/easySMF/

via Benr

The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded.

Ok Firefox.

URL not valid

Somehow you decided to disable keywords and it took me a few days to remember how to fix this.

No more. Never again. And for all the other folks this happens to, all you need to do is:

  1. Open about:config
  2. type ‘keyword’ in the search bar
  3. double click keyword.enabled so it reads true

Then rejoice as things work as expected again. If you’re looking for a great entry for keyword.URL, use YubNub - you’ll never look back.

Atheists love coffee

My friend John made me think of my all-time favorite Creationist propaganda site, Objective Ministries.

The whole site is filled with fun flash embeds where you can hear their characters say things like “Shalom”, and meow when you click on their cross necklace.

They even have a page for kids, where they advise children : “If you find an Atheist in your neighborhood, TELL A PARENT OR PASTOR RIGHT AWAY!”

Also suggested is that Atheists love coffee:

Atheists Loooove Coffee!!

Guess that’s why our church brews the good stuff, trying to attract all those Gooooooooooooooooooooodless coffee lovin’ heathens…

Site redesign

Not so much a redesign as a new header and an upgrade of K2. Whaddya think? (Here’s a screencap of the old one for those of you reading from your RSS readers…)

*embarrassed to have forgotten this* Much props to Faruk for the original photo!

No really, our customer service can help you.

Just checking out my old friends at The Planet and a window popped up offering to help me via chat. Ok, I’m all for saving myself some time.

Here’s some amusement for you:

Customer: do you guys offer any other linux distros (other than RH)?
(Here’s where I waited for 3 minutes for a response)
Customer: ?
(Here’s where I wait another minute)
Luis O: sorry we dont offer distros, we do offer other linux OS’

Um. Ok.

FWIW, I found the answer myself - they offer CentOS, RedHat, and FreeBSD (as well as windows *pukes a little in mouth*).

One more day!

Well the big iMac giveaway drawing happens in about 24 hours…

Let’s hope my luck continues - This week has been a hum-dinger:

  • Last Wednesday, we received an offer on our house
  • We countered, and the buyer accepted our counter-offer on Thursday
  • We went to look at houses on Saturday, and found one we really liked, and it’s a spec home at juuuuuuust the right stage where we get to have some good input
  • We wrote an offer on the spec home for less than the asking price, in exchange for finishing the basement ourselves
  • We got word on Sunday that the seller accepted our offer
  • We had meetings with 2 lenders on Monday
  • We locked a good rate Today with our preferred lender

So all in all, it’s been a great week. I’m praying for some more luck come tomorrow in the drawing, so that little Emma can have an iMac that works!

Win an iMac? Yes please!

So my daughter Emma is 4 now, and her ruby iMac is on its last legs. It’s been up on blocks for a couple months now, and I just can’t seem to get it to boot off anything but the internal drive so I can upgrade the OS to something past 10.2.8.

What a pleasure that I just happened to run across the Stay At Home Dad iMac Give-Away contest being run by Mike over at his blog Stay At Home Dad, Geek Style, in concert with Sittercity, which I’d never heard of before, but looks quite interesting, given the need for babysitters with a 4 year old in the house.

What’s on the line? One of these babies:

iMac

A brand new, unopened 20″ Apple iMac. It has a 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1 GB of memory, a 250 GB hard drive, an 8x SuperDrive, and an awesome 20″ glossy display. It ships with an Apple Mighty Mouse, a sexy new Apple keyboard, an Apple Remote for controlling the included Front Row software (which turns your computer into a full-on media center), and as dutifully noted on Apple’s iMac page, a power cord (duh!).

If you’d like to enter Mike’s Stay At Home Dad iMac Give-Away contest, visit his site for the rules and enter. It’s a rather interesting contest, as he’s giving out “tickets” based on doing certain things, like writing an initial post like this one is worth one ticket and is required to enter. There are other opportunities to earn a ticket.

* make extra posts about the contest for 1 ticket each
* put a Sittercity banner on your sidebar and get 5 tickets
* bid on DevDad’s ads and get 1 ticket per $1 bid
* chip in for DevDad’s dream set-up and get 2 tickets per $1 chipped in
* like the contest page on stumble upon and get 1 ticket

You’re also encouraged to use this graphic:

SitterCity

Which I am so doing as to appease the contest gremlins.

All in all, it’s an interesting way to run a contest, and I’m all for a little link love for chances to win Apple hardware, which is the pinnacle of industrial design, which runs, in my opinion, the best consumer OS on the planet. (Server OS would have to be Solaris.)

Wish me luck, and I might just have to put up a little extra chrome to help out my odds and get some more of those golden tickets!

Fun with AddressBook.app

I wonder what this “Check for duplicates” thing does…

duplicates.png

Wow, that’s a big number.

Ok, I’m brave (but only after exporting current ‘book)…
Of Course You Crashed…
Haha, but it did work..
De-duped

The latest phonecall I’ve recieved on my work line

“Hello, this is Cami. May I speak with the woman of the house please”.

ED Mongrel for fastness

Event Driven Mongrel and Swiftiply Proxy:

This is big news people. This thing makes shit faster and more stable under load