Syn rants here. ARGGGHHH!

25Feb/111

Nothing to see here.

move along.

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16Oct/102

Good bye Comcast. Hello EPB.

I've used Comcast as my ISP ever since they started providing Internet access in my area. We've been through some rough times together, but nothing in comparison to the nightmare that was BellSouth DSL. Recently EPB started offering fiber access. Hesitant to switch as I've grown rather fond of my IP address, I waited as long as I could before jumping ship to swim to the new ISP.

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28Sep/103

wpadminbar vs godsyn.com

I play around with wordpress nightlies because I like living on the edge, breaking my own site, and fixing buggy code. Recently, in the latest nightly release wordpress decided I need an administration bar along the top of my pages. This only displays when logged in, but destroyed my theme. I do not know the official name of this bar, but it has an ID of "wpadminbar". After seeking plug-ins and settings to no avail and being let down by google, I turned to grep. The resolution is simple. To remove the bar, open wp-settings.php and comment out the following line:

require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/admin-bar.php' );

becomes

//require( ABSPATH . WPINC . '/admin-bar.php' );

Note: If you know of an official way to disable "wpadminbar" or make it more theme friendly, please share.

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14Jun/100

Escape plan

I have one more year before I have to run.

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14Apr/100

US government finally admits most piracy estimates are bogus

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/us-government-finally-admits-most-piracy-estimates-are-bogus.ars
Well.. duh.

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26Mar/100

Adsense

I'm going to try out this whole "adsense" thing. Feel free to adblock them.

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16Mar/100

Is Comcast’s Xfinity Brand Name Xcellent or Xcrement?: Name Wire: The Product Naming Blog

Is Comcast's Xfinity Brand Name Xcellent or Xcrement?: Name Wire: The Product Naming Blog.

Or in other words, this is an example of putting lipstick on a pig.

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28Feb/100

After Google hack, Microsoft asks users to abandon IE6, XP

After Google hack, Microsoft asks users to abandon IE6, XP.

My advice: use a real browser.
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Opera

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23Feb/100

‘Assassin’s Creed 2′ DRM will hurt sales. Ubisoft will undoubtedly blame pirates.

The article says you can't even start the game without Internet, as you will be greeted by an error message. Making matters even worse, you are still kicked back to the main menu if the game loses connection to the "Ubisoft Master servers," which may not even be your fault.

4Apr/090

Summer of code VS. Microsoft

This is awesome: http://wordpress.org/development/2009/04/submit-your-summer-of-code-application-now/
This is not: http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Coffeehouse/261781-Microsoft-Summer-of-Code-/

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