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October 1
Best Practices for installing the Evo desktop client
July 24
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Evolution
Avoiding subtle C# locking errors in lazy-loading patterns
January 7, 2023
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Software Development
Unfortunate Windows Server experience, and *so* easy to get right
October 27, 2022
Microsoft Edge: Favorites Bar keeps disappearing [FIXED]
October 26, 2022
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Software Development
Evo error "Out of resources" caused by bad Windows Update
March 23, 2021
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Evolution
Evo GUI update problems re: 64-bit Readiness
March 22, 2021
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Evolution
64-bit Evolution is coming soon!
February 4, 2021
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Evolution
Sindoh 3D Printers - always get Type C cartridges!
January 6, 2021
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3D Design & Printing
Report types in Evolution (S/B/C)
September 18, 2020
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Evolution
"Binary file was modified: Evolution.exe"
July 14, 2020
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Evolution
Getting EvoTime to work on modern systems; MSSTDFMT not registered
June 22, 2020
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Evolution
Evo client: "Run as administrator" may prevent saving to network drives
September 16, 2019
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Evolution
Evo Server guidelines for your new IT people
July 23, 2019
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Evolution
Your UPS: "Replace Batteries" is not a suggestion
July 16, 2019
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Evolution
Evolution and Virtual Machines - it's ok!
July 2, 2019
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Evolution
Evolution and the CVE-2019-0708 (Remote Desktop) vulnerability
May 14, 2019
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Evolution
Best Practices for Replacing Server Hard Drives
May 11, 2019
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Evolution
Visual Studio 2017: Ending the line-ending wars
May 2, 2019
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Software Development
PowerShell cmdlet construction: hiding internal properties
April 9, 2019
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PowerShell
Don't install fonts to fix printing problems - usually
April 2, 2019
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Evolution
Amazon AWS / .Net SDK: "MissingMethodException"
March 19, 2019
Moving client databases from one Evolution bureau to another can be dangerous
March 7, 2019
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Evolution
Do not schedule automatic reboots of Evo middle tier Windows systems!
March 5, 2019
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Evolution
When shutting down a workstation doesn't really shut down a workstation
January 30, 2019
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Evolution
PowerShell scripts don't show custom help information: FIXED!
November 14, 2018
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PowerShell
Pipeline input into Powershell Scripts (not functions)
November 14, 2018
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PowerShell
HP Printers: "Insert Cardstock Letter" - WTF?
October 31, 2018
New Evo Tip: Best Practices for Managing Evolution Services
October 10, 2018
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Evolution
Best Practices for self-hosted Evolution Printer configuration
September 26, 2018
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Evolution
Evil software idea: Cancel Roulette
September 26, 2018
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Fun
Quickbooks Verify Error 196
September 12, 2018
Best Practice: Apply Windows Updates Manually
July 2, 2018
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Evolution
Mapping iSCSI filesystem mounts on Linux
June 23, 2018
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Web/Tech
Tech Tip: Patient's Guide to FOLFOX6 Chemotherapy
April 24, 2018
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Tech Tips
Over-minimalism in browsers?
April 3, 2018
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Web/Tech
Building a GPS time station with a Raspberry Pi 3
March 13, 2018
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Tech Tips
Evolution Client update failures after Evo upgrade: it's McAfee
October 19, 2017
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Evolution
Fortigate: changing switch to interface mode in 5.4+
September 17, 2017
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Tech Tips
Request Processors won't start: Windows perf counters confused or disabled
March 10, 2016
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Evolution
Windows 7 missing mouse clicks - Solved?
October 12, 2015
Determining OS version from the Evo stack trace
September 26, 2015
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Evolution
"Object already exists" error when installing the Evo Client
May 12, 2015
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Evolution
FortiClient SSL VPN - connecting before login
April 13, 2015
Evolution and the CVE-2015-0235 (Ghost) vulnerability
January 30, 2015
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Evolution
"Range Check Error" - funky default printer
January 14, 2015
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Evolution
Reporting the correct Evolution version number
December 29, 2014
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Evolution
Sending client files to the iSystems Secure FTP site
December 10, 2014
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Evolution
Evo DB Maintenance: Scrambled vs Unscrambled databases
December 10, 2014
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Evolution
One fix for Quickbooks' enormous QBSearchIndexerError.txt file
November 17, 2014
Floating-point Division by Zero when printing checks
October 28, 2014
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Evolution
Evolution Best Practice: reboot middle tier monthly
September 25, 2014
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Evolution
Why is moving the Request Broker so painful?
September 18, 2014
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Evolution
"Cannot initialize Report Writer" failures
September 11, 2014
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Evolution
Using multiple internet providers
August 26, 2014
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Evolution
Steve's IP Addresses
August 26, 2014
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Evolution
Dynamic DNS with EasyDNS and the Fortigate firewall
August 18, 2014
Evo Client use inside the service bureau
August 18, 2014
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Evolution
Remote Relay: can I turn off 9901..9903, leaving only 443/tcp?
August 13, 2014
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Evolution
Using port 443/tcp for Remote Relay
August 13, 2014
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Evolution
Consider disabling the Alternate Update Server
August 4, 2014
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Evolution
New Evo blog
July 25, 2014
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Evolution
FoodBabe is a Charlatan
February 5, 2014
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Science
Disabling Unicode in Visual Studio C++ projects
May 27, 2013
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Software Development
Unhappy surprise: Dell servers misreport RAID failures
May 23, 2013
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Web/Tech
Parking at Peters Canyon Regional Park
May 16, 2013
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Hiking
Ascending Sierra Peak - my first real hike
May 12, 2013
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Hiking
Space Aliens, Sports Radio, and a Really Good Book
April 13, 2013
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Thumbs Up
Comodo - phone spamming for SSL cert biz
March 28, 2013
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Spam / email
New Tech Tip: Microsoft's confusing "Not enough..." error messages
March 5, 2013
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Tech Tips
Unhappy surprise: Firebird SQL's backup/restore uses magic words for stdin and stdout
January 10, 2013
Unhappy surprise: PuTTY's PSFTP doesn't reflect batchfile errors in the exit code (+ patch)
May 30, 2012
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Open Source
Tech Tip: Deploying Mitel IP Phones in a VLAN/DHCP Environment
May 17, 2012
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Tech Tips
Alternate Data Streams and .NET - not supported
May 15, 2012
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Software Development
Enabling Office 2010 limited-user activation from Group Policy
February 9, 2012
"Could not access network location \Hewlett-Packard\\" error
January 17, 2012
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Windows 7
"Pre-Windows 2000 names"
December 5, 2011
Fixing a loose handle on a GE Monogram ZFSB27DAG SS refrigerator
July 2, 2011
64-bit CentOS on IBM xSeries 346 panics
May 22, 2011
Strange password prompt from Outlook
March 15, 2011
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Security
VMware Workstation: "There are no un-bridged host network adapters"
September 2, 2010
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Web/Tech
California Ballot Analysis - June 8, 2010
June 5, 2010
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California Elections
Powershell surprise in Windows 7
May 5, 2010
A Quest: Tracking down an Exchange problem
April 22, 2010
Not just a tech blog...
March 17, 2010
New Tech Tip: Expanding RAID1 arrays on Dell PERC 6/i Integrated RAID controllers
March 16, 2010
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Tech Tips
Process-creation bug in SocksCAP
March 13, 2010
UNIX scripting tip: guard against bad directory names
November 17, 2009
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Software Development
Paychoice update
October 17, 2009
Payroll Associates doesn't care about its customers
October 6, 2009
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Security
How not to respond to a targeted malware attack
October 2, 2009
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Security
Security Response: the Paychoice/Online Employer incident
September 30, 2009
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Security
New Tech Tip: Analysis of initial patches for Microsoft's Hyper-V driver in the Linux kernel
September 20, 2009
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Tech Tips
Aligning objects with angled lines
August 16, 2009
New Tech Tip: Configuring Windows 7 for a Limited User Account
May 27, 2009
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Windows 7
New Tech Tip: Understanding Microsoft's KB971492 IIS5/IIS6 WebDAV Vulnerability
May 26, 2009
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Tech Tips
Windows 7 UAC: Where do I type the Administrator password???
May 23, 2009
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Windows 7
Neat C# features - Properties
May 18, 2009
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Software Development
California Election Analysis - May 19, 2009
May 17, 2009
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California Elections
Coding tip: including a mechanism to ignore a cmdline option
May 1, 2009
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Software Development
Visual Studio 2008 feature request
April 26, 2009
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Software Development
Windows XP Reinstallation failures on Dell Dimension 8400
April 21, 2009
How to estimate a software project
April 12, 2009
Stupid highway design
April 10, 2009
"BindingFailure was detected" in Visual Studio 2008
April 8, 2009
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Software Development
Stuff you didn't know: Dry Cleaners
April 3, 2009
Ok, for real this time?
March 15, 2009
Anti-freeze in your TV?
December 2, 2006
Steve's Election Analysis - Nov 6, 2006
November 4, 2006
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California Elections
"user-defined ObjectClass has inappropriate SUPerior"
October 25, 2006
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LDAP
Reloading Linux - How hard could it be?
September 24, 2006
What is "stopfaxnow.com"?
September 3, 2006
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Spam / email
Excellent overview of memory technologies
August 30, 2006
Gotcha with Outlook 2003 with RPC-over-HTTPS
August 3, 2006
New Tech Tip: Remote Access for SBS2003
August 1, 2006
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Tech Tips
New tool: whoamIP
July 31, 2006
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Tools
New Tech Tip: Converting Win32 Kernel-mode Print Drivers to User Mode
July 29, 2006
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Tech Tips
New Tech Tip: Slipstreamed Driver Installation of SBS 2003
July 11, 2006
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Tech Tips
New tool: lockrun
June 3, 2006
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Tools
California Election Analysis - June 6, 2006
May 24, 2006
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California Elections
DrvStartDoc without a JobId
May 21, 2006
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Software Development
"Required Reading"
May 6, 2006
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Tech Tips
Lame idea: CSS Naked Day
April 5, 2006
Tech Tip: An Illustrated Guide to SSH Agent Forwarding
February 22, 2006
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Tech Tips
SPF Tip: only one TXT record
January 19, 2006
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Spam / email
Another milestone: 25 years of UNIX
January 16, 2006
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Toot Toot!
"What happened? Did you kill all the spammers?"
January 14, 2006
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Spam / email
Speaking at SCALE 4X
January 2, 2006
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Toot Toot!
"Brian, Dennis: sorry, you're not qualified enough"
November 27, 2005
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Fun
Secure Linux/UNIX access with PuTTY and OpenSSH
November 23, 2005
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Tech Tips
Steve in the news: Election 2005
November 5, 2005
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Toot Toot!
Resynchronizing uptime counters
November 4, 2005
What? No bond measures?
October 31, 2005
Trash your laptop with a battery...
October 25, 2005
Steffan Soule - Fantastic magician in Seattle
October 25, 2005
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Fun
Looking for reasonable corporate IM solution
October 4, 2005
On being overly cautious
September 26, 2005
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Software Development
New Tool: fastzolver
September 18, 2005
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Tools
September 11, 2005
September 11, 2005
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Toot Toot!
Dumb software: CPAN
September 8, 2005
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Open Source
Finally: new website design
September 3, 2005
An Illustrated Guide to IPSec
August 24, 2005
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Tech Tips
Thumbs Up: Nextweb
July 29, 2005
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Thumbs Up
Uptime: 12 hours...
July 14, 2005
Agile Programming: How to doom your software project
July 4, 2005
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Software Development
Things to look for in a gigabit switch
June 23, 2005
Building LIBGD on FreeBSD
June 15, 2005
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Open Source
"Think Assimilation"
June 6, 2005
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Fun
Understanding Microsoft's PostScript print driver "PSINJECT"
May 31, 2005
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Tech Tips
SBC and Privacy - Huh?
May 25, 2005
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Security
A Proposal for Secure Storage of Credit Card Data
May 2, 2005
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Tech Tips
My first book... sort of
April 27, 2005
Keyword blacklisting for MT Trackback spam
April 25, 2005
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Spam / email
Running as non-admin: Office 2003
April 11, 2005
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Security
Advisory: USPS Information Disclosure Vulnerability
April 1, 2005
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Security
Lame Journalism 102
March 22, 2005
Lame Journalism 101
March 22, 2005
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Security
Track Traffic With Webalizer
March 15, 2005
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Toot Toot!
What's in a Security Certification?
February 23, 2005
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Security
Crypto hashes in the news again
February 16, 2005
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Tech Tips
Rejecting spammers with HELO
February 4, 2005
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Tech Tips
So you want to be a consultant... ?
January 28, 2005
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Tech Tips
Self promotion for the technical consultant
January 22, 2005
Whitehats, Blackhats, and Asshats
January 19, 2005
Win32 CRITICAL_SECTION efficiency and overhead
January 17, 2005
Malware analysis: Troj/Winser-A
January 8, 2005
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Reverse Engineering
Tech Tip: SQL Injection Attacks by Example
December 27, 2004
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Tech Tips
Spam blacklists as denial-of-service attacks?
December 19, 2004
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Spam / email
Good food with an unappetizing name
December 2, 2004
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Fun
Maddening VC7 linkage problem resolved
November 21, 2004
"whack whack"
November 18, 2004
Off to Microsoft SecuritySummit!
November 7, 2004
Not the only guy who writes about the ballot...
November 1, 2004
LA Times says I'm a "Political Junkie"!
October 24, 2004
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Toot Toot!
California Ballot Proposition analysis
October 23, 2004
I'm an expert! I have proof!
September 23, 2004
Tooting my own horn: Microsoft Security webcast
September 18, 2004
Do you like Food <i>and</i> Open Source?
September 11, 2004
How to run a crappy ecommerce site: element5
September 7, 2004
Goodbye, Friendster
August 31, 2004
Cool Stuff: VisualThesaurus.com
August 6, 2004
New email spammer technique: banners
August 4, 2004
The LAST people you'd expect to be clueless about the internet
August 1, 2004
I'm back - ugh
July 27, 2004