Winter Fun

Published on February 13th, 2010 - 3:37 pm - by Josh

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Texas got nearly a foot of snow!  Crazily enough, it’s already  nearly all melted.  But it was fun while it was here, and we played in it for two days.  Megan even got Friday off of work (I stayed home, but worked from home about half the day). We had a blast outside; Megan built [...]


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Here’s to a[nother] Happy New Year

Published on January 1st, 2010 - 9:32 am - by Megan

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As with each of the years that have passed since we were first married, 2009 flew by with such speed that we’re left looking back wondering where the time went.
This year marked my first full year as a working mamma with a full-time career to handle in addition to raising the kiddos. It’s been a challenge; [...]


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IGN Column: Nintendo is Lazy and You Don’t Care – Wii feature – at IGN

Published on December 12th, 2009 - 9:08 am - by Josh

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Column: Nintendo is Lazy and You Don’t Care – Wii feature – at IGN.
Great editorial on Nintendo.  Sums up why I don’t own a Wii.  Quite frustrating, good thing Mass Effect 2 comes out soon .


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Happy Halloween

Published on October 31st, 2009 - 9:00 am - by Josh

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Megan and I went all out on the pumpkin carving this year.  I think Megan’s wrist hurt for two days after that spider web.
The pumpkings:


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Re-living My Childhood Cartoons

Published on August 2nd, 2009 - 6:55 am - by Josh

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Xavier has recently started watching a cartoon on Disney XD called X-men: Evolution. I remember watching the X-men cartoon when I was little and absolutely loving it, so now I’m re-living those memories through Xavier We will literally sit on the couch together and watch the whole thing (to be honest [...]


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Summer 2009 Photos

Published on July 27th, 2009 - 9:02 pm - by Josh

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Alright, at long last we’ve got some photos from this summer.  It has been a really busy and ridiculously HOT summer so far, but we’ve made it to the zoo once, and the pool nearly every weekend.  So here is the latest album with a ton of great pics.
http://www.joshandmeg.net/gallery/v/josh_and_meg/summer-2009/?g2_page=1


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Server Rebuild

Published on June 17th, 2009 - 9:28 pm - by Josh

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The server HDD started acting flaky at the beginning of the week, so I decided to be pro-active and start prepping a new drive for the system before it failed completely.  I did have our Western Digital external HDD hooked up and it was holding all of our pictures, videos, and music.  I decided to [...]


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FTC takes down a spam provider « Akismet

Published on June 10th, 2009 - 6:01 pm - by Josh

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FTC takes down a spam provider « Akismet.
Man, I totally called this a while back.  I hope those people get the death sentence.


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Server Upgrade

Published on May 15th, 2009 - 10:21 pm - by Josh

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I just had a nice pain-free upgrade of my Ubuntu server from 8.10 to 9.04. I had been holding off upgrading for several weeks because I was positive something would break and I’d spend hours getting it back up and running. Much to my surprise, everything went off without a hitch.
Ryan – Let [...]


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SPAM Slowing Down

Published on May 11th, 2009 - 8:20 pm - by Josh

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So here’s something interesting I’ve noticed over the past few weeks: SPAM seems to be slowing down a bit. Not just email SPAM either, but SPAM comments on this very blog have seen a very steep slow down over the past several weeks.  The chart below shows the number of SPAM comments posted to [...]


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Tabije-Walters Wedding Weekend

Published on April 29th, 2009 - 10:08 pm - by Josh

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Wow, what a weekend we had.  It was ridiculously busy, but over all it was a lot of fun and we got some awesome pictures out of it.
To start things off, my parent’s and sister flew in on Thursday afternoon to visit and help us with the kids during the Tabije-Walters wedding.  So we visited [...]


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Easter 2009 Photos

Published on April 19th, 2009 - 9:48 pm - by Josh

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New album from Easter. Check it out here.


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Zoo Trip, Birthday, and Springtime

Published on March 21st, 2009 - 4:51 pm - by Josh

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Since Friday was my birthday, the kids and Meg made me a surprise birthday cake Thursday night.  While they were grocery shopping Thursday evening Xavier saw a Wall-E cake topper and insisted that Daddy needed a Wall-E cake.  So Megan got the supplies and they all spent the evening making awesome cake.  Since it was [...]


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Canon PowerShot A540 is Back in Action

Published on February 28th, 2009 - 8:42 am - by Josh

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There really is a good excuse for the lack of posts and pictures lately.  I dropped our camera onto our kitchen tile right after we got back from our Ohio Christmas trip.  After it happened I messed around with it for awhile and eventually determined that it was still mostly functional, but the screen was [...]


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New Computers

Published on February 22nd, 2009 - 8:25 pm - by Josh

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Awhile back I posted the sad obituary of ze5170, my old laptop that bit the dust several months ago. Since then, Meg and I have been surviving on her equally old hp a610n desktop. We lived with this for as long as we could, but I, being the geek that I am, couldn’t go on for much [...]


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