vnsnes's Diaries
Transparency
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vnsnes (Sun Mar 27, 2005 at 10:36:31 PM EST) (
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Yesterday Slashdot editors posted a link to a gallery of
transparent computer desktop backgrounds in
this story.
Surrealism inside.
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Gas and bikes or petrol and bicycles
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vnsnes (Sun Mar 20, 2005 at 11:09:28 PM EST) (
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Filled the car up this morning with two-dollar-a-gallon gas. No biggie, but you listen to the news and it's undermining American freedoms.
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A wine Saturday
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vnsnes (Mon Feb 28, 2005 at 11:27:53 PM EST) (
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The weekend was quite fun. Since we had to be out of the house for pretty much most of the day, my wife and I decided to drive out past Winston Salem to the
Yadkin Valley Appellation and visit some
North Carolina wineries. I got a friend at work to ditch preparing for UL on Saturday and come with us. He was not very hard to convince.
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Who's your favorite service professional?
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vnsnes (Thu Feb 24, 2005 at 11:06:26 PM EST) (
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In the last two years I had to deal with three real-estate agents, two lawyers, two auto mechanics, three physicians and a carpet cleaner. People in which one of those professions did the best work?
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How much do you pay for broadband?
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vnsnes (Thu Feb 10, 2005 at 07:39:28 AM EST) (
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I was doing
some Light Reading when I read that in France an 8 Mbit/s Internet connection can be had for €15. Add voice-over-IP service for just €9. While you are at it, tag on video-over-IP for €6 per month.
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Things not to do when being remotely logged into a machine
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vnsnes (Wed Dec 15, 2004 at 11:46:00 PM EST) (
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# ifconfig eth0 down
One a machine with a single net connection.
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First ride to work
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vnsnes (Tue Nov 02, 2004 at 11:17:29 PM EST) (
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I biked to work yesterday for the first time. It wasn't without adventure, but overall was not an unpleasant experience.
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Lifetime television for women
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vnsnes (Tue Oct 19, 2004 at 06:07:00 PM EST) (
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Slashdot ran a
headline about neuroscience being used by marketers to figure out how to make advertisement work. I don't need neuroscience! I have conclusive and incontrovertible proof that
Lifetime: Television for Women appeals to women on a very basic of levels.
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America, fuck yeah!
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vnsnes (Mon Oct 18, 2004 at 10:36:58 PM EST) (
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Around ten o'clock they called us into a meeting room and told us to get what we need for the day and leave the premises ASAP. Don't linger in the parking lots. Just go, so that the poor sods who were getting laid off in the other building could come back to their cubes and collect their stuff in dignity. The network has been shut down, so don't try working from home, just take the rest of the day off.
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Your blood is no good here
By
vnsnes (Tue Jul 27, 2004 at 10:23:11 PM EST) (
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The blood mobile was parked outside the office building yesterday, so I made an appointment. After filling out forms, reading about HIV and AIDS, getting my hemoglobin and blood pressure measured in the hall of the building they send me off to the camper parked on the side of the road where I find out that my blood is no longer good of the American.
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