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Tomorrow many sites like Wikipedia, MoveOn, Reddit, BoingBoing, Mozilla, WordPress, TwitPic and the ICanHasCheezBurger network will be going dark for a day to protest SOPA and PIPA. If you don’t know what this all means, “Fight For The Future” says it well: “PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House [...]
Two Spaces or One Space?
Posted: January 10, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: monospaced fonts, proportional fonts
Learning to type during grade-school and high-school, it was usually taught to place two spaces after each sentence. They never explained why other than “that’s how it’s done”. Which is one fact I always hated about school. They always said this is what it is but rarely ever why. Here’s the why: Manual typewriters used [...]
After reading an article today on making your iPhone more secure by adding a duplicate digit to your lock code, I though that perhaps I should look at my fingers’ tell-tale signs. The article describes how that someone could potentially look at your finger residue and determine which digits you use to unlock your phone, [...]
Outlook Takes Many Attempts To Actually Close
Posted: December 22, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: microsoft office professional
The issue: For a long time, way too long, I would randomly find that Microsoft Outlook would stay open, minimized in my notification area (I have “Hide When Minimized” enabled). This would lead to frustration after finding out that all my mail was still being downloaded to the client overnight while trying to see new mail via [...]
I update my host file a lot due to many VPN connections and locations I commute to. Normally I would have to open notepad as an administrator, hope the etc path is still remembered, if not traverse those multiple directories, change the file types to any, open hosts, modify, save and close. But I finally [...]
IIS 7 Custom Error Page Not Showing
Posted: December 6, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Custom Error Page, IIS
As I recreated a production environment on my local development platform, a requirement was to assign a custom 404 Error Page. The web server is IIS (Internet Information Services) 7 on production and development. In IIS Manager, I’d click the website name, double-click the “Error Pages” icon and then double-click the 404 Status Code row. [...]
I still remember being amazed by the stunning video of Earth from space while watching one of the few IMAX productions I’ve seen in life. It was probably back in 1997 with the “Mission to Mir” IMAX documentary. Shown on a specially coated silver screen stories high shot with large format film; It was the beginning of high-definition video. [...]
As some of you may know I am a volunteer EMT with a small town in Nebraska. About a year ago we, along with many other departments, purchased an upgraded Defibrillator unit. Many picture a Defibrillator being those two paddles that jolt you back to life. While those still exist in many different forms, the more [...]
In Omaha there a quite a few supermarkets to choose from for groceries including Bag and Save, Bakers, Hy-Vee, No Frills, Super Saver, Walmart and more. But I’ve taken notice of one lately: Hy-Vee. They have started to make a move similar to Walgreens and Walmart; they have begun rebuilding or remodeling their stores from [...]
