Monthly Archives: August 2006

Makes you think

Actual conversation I just had with an actual, live co-worker: Co-worker: Think of a million monkeys with typewriters. Devin: <pause> … why do I want to think about Harry Potter slashfic, again?

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RSS feed glitch

Whoa! I just now saw that folks on the LJ feed (possibly on the RSS feed) got to see the Firefly review I did all over again. Sorry about that; it wasn’t intentional! (I was just fixing a couple of … Continue reading

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It really speaks for itself

coolsteph says: I have 5 kids here right now…The girls are burping the alphabet so I am staying away. Devin L. Ganger [It's Office but it's XML!] says: <facepalm>

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The inevitable upgrade glitches

There are a couple of glitches on the site relating to the upgrade. One of them is extremely annoying and I’m trying to track it down, the others are just minor pains in the butt: In the ugprade from ASP.NET 1.1 … Continue reading

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Under (peer) pressure

Okay, not me. For once, I’m the one giving the peer pressure. A few posts back, I noted in passing that Nick’s blog was displaying a error message. Nothing too hideous, but it was the web equivalent of a pimple on the … Continue reading

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Upgrades and changes

As you may have figured out by now (if you read this site in your browser instead of via RSS or LJ), there’s been another small change around here. I just got done upgrading to Community Server 2.1, the latest … Continue reading

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Is that a parasite in your pocket, or are you just making me dumber?

John Scalzi, via his AOL Journal By the Way, points out a news report on the Toxoplasma gondii parasite, which has infected an estimated half of the people on this planet. The vector? Cats. John doesn’t quote it directly in … Continue reading

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