The Life and Times of my hp ze5170

Published on November 7th, 2008 - 11:07 pm - by Josh

Category: News | 1 Comment »

Today is a sad day for me.  ze5170, my six year old hp laptop has finally passed on.  He was with me through thick and thin, good times and bad.  It all started shortly after my high school graduation in June of 2002….
I was just like every other middle class graduating senior, I received my [...]


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Comcast’s Attack On Downloadable Content - Opinions by ExtremeTech

Published on September 6th, 2008 - 9:20 am - by Josh

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Comcast’s Attack On Downloadable Content - Opinions by ExtremeTech.
An excellent insight into the Comcast debacle.


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Crazy Video - Lifelike Animation

Published on August 24th, 2008 - 9:29 pm - by Josh

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Video: Lifelike animation heralds new era for computer games - Times Online


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Success!

Published on August 18th, 2008 - 9:01 pm - by Josh

Category: Technical Stuff | No Comments »

Whoa!  I finally got the blogs updated to WP 2.6.  A few of weeks ago I attempted it and had major headaches, and it has been driving me crazy ever since then.  So I gave it another shot tonight and finally got it up and running.
Anyway, not really too many changes you guys will notice [...]


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Technobabbles is Live!

Published on July 11th, 2008 - 7:18 am - by Josh

Category: News | 1 Comment »

Woot!  After a couple months worth of off-and-on coding, the WordPress theme for Technobabbles is finished, and I launched the site late last night.  I was debating whether or not to actually launch the site with a bunch of pre-written content, or just to launch it empty and let it fill up as it goes.  [...]


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3 Red Lights

Published on July 10th, 2008 - 6:56 am - by Josh

Category: Rants | 4 Comments »

I guess it was only a matter of time, but in the back of my mind I was kind of hoping mine would run the distance.  Everyone I know that has an Xbox 360 has had to return it due to the infamous “3 Red Lights” failure; but not me, mine lasted almost three full years. :)  But [...]


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2 New Plugins for the Blogs

Published on June 11th, 2008 - 9:53 pm - by Josh

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I’ve just uploaded a couple of plugins for the blogs on joshandmeg.net.

Admin Drop Down Menu
Fluency Admin

Both of these plugins change the way the admin area of WordPress looks.  They can be activated independently of each other, providing a couple different changes.  If you just activate Admin Drop Down Menu, you’ll have the standard admin tabs [...]


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Woopra Beta - First Impressions

Published on June 7th, 2008 - 1:11 pm - by Josh

Category: Technical Stuff | No Comments »

This post has been moved to Technobabbles.  You can now find it here: http://technobabbles.com/2008/07/woopra-beta-first-impressions/


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Woopra Approval!

Published on June 2nd, 2008 - 7:58 pm - by Josh

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Woot!  joshandmeg.net was finally approved for the Woopra beta.  Woopra is a very new cutting-edge website statistics application, viewable through the members area of the website and through a desktop client for Linux, Mac, and Windows.  Here is a screenshot of the dashboard area, I’m gonna go play with it for awhile now.  I’ll post [...]


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Great Article

Published on May 30th, 2008 - 11:53 am - by Josh

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This is one of the greatest articles ExtremeTech has ever written.  If you’re interesting in digital distribution, check it out.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2310305,00.asp


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Site Maintenance

Published on May 2nd, 2008 - 12:31 am - by Josh

Category: frontpage | No Comments »

Goodbye 1and1, hello Site5. If you tried to visit the site yesterday evening, you may have noticed joshandmeg.net was nowhere to be found. Not to worry. I was migrating the site over to a new hosting company. Its quite a task and I’m only partially finished, so the photo albums are [...]


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Ubuntu 8.04 - Hardy Heron

Published on April 28th, 2008 - 5:22 pm - by Josh

Category: Rants | No Comments »

Wow, what a weekend it was for my computer.  Being the cutting-edge obsessed sort of guy that I am, I decided to upgrade immediately to the newest version of Ubuntu (which came out last Thursday).  My plan was to backup the documents I wanted to keep, and then format the drive and do a nice [...]


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Microsoft Advertising - Wow

Published on April 16th, 2008 - 3:49 pm - by Josh

Category: Internet Findings | 2 Comments »

I’ve posted a few Microsoft bashing things on here lately, and I wasn’t planning on making it a trend, but its just becoming too hard not too. Watch. Comment.


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WordPress 2.5 RC-2 and Problems with MySQL 5.0.51

Published on March 26th, 2008 - 8:04 pm - by Josh

Category: Technical Stuff | No Comments »

Yea! The site is finally back to a fully functional state. If you checked out either me or Megan’s blogs in the past week or so, I’m sure you noticed the posts were backwards (the really old posts were at the top of the page). The problem happened shortly after I upgraded to [...]


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Re-using an Old Hard Drive

Published on February 26th, 2008 - 10:11 pm - by Josh

Category: Technical Stuff | 3 Comments »

This post has been moved over to Technobabbles.  Read it here.


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