rant

Cretaceous Diet

Though it is definitely not something I’d ever want to have lunge out of someone’s yard and start chasing me when I’m on a bike ride, the T.Rex at the Chicago Field Museum was a lot smaller than I had imagined.

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Intellectual Property

I’m not sure what was more puzzling: They insist on a strong passwords, but are able to handle only two non-alphanumeric characters.  For example, this-password-restriction-is-poopy-doodoo-7F92PChQXHkR=mz{mzTfs6x6z”, the sequence emitted when my head landed on my keyboard, violates most of their rules. This information is intellectual property.  

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Rock Liebster

I happily report that this blog has been nominated for The Liebster Blog Award by Horse Bits.  I was expecting a focus on ritualistic hazing, drinking and debauchery, followed by debauchery and drinking.  But in reading John’s intro paragraph, I am corrected that the intent is for the little folk (blogs with fewer than 200

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Math-challenged shopping cart

I have an upcoming had a project at work where I’d benefit from being better versed in a specific technology.  After combing through the library holdings, and needing something longer-lasting than Intralibrary loan, I found some promising reference materials on Amazon for $40 each.  Tech books have a poor payout / useful life ratio, so I

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WPEngine experiment

Executive summary: Dissatisfied with my blog’s response time, I looked into a variety of options.  For about a month, I tried a wpengine experiment whereby I moved everything to them.  It didn’t work out, but I learned a lot along the way.  I’ve been dissatisfied about the page load times of my blog for a long

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