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McCain spams. Poorly 15 years ago
It must be hard for the McCain campaign given that they pretty much got flanked to the left (Obama) and to the right (Ron Paul) in terms of the nerd audience. The Obama campaign has a super-slick website. It's awesome. It provides a great way for supporters to do a lot of work for the campaign…

Can somebody explain my dream? 15 years ago
So last night, I had a weird dream. Well worthy of being blogged... So, at some point, Mrs. Wirehead managed to coax me into going to a chiropractors office. I have a deep mistrust of all chiropractors... but somehow she managed to talk me into it. So the guy starts doing these weird measurement…

The story of Outlook Reminders ruining a surprise 15 years ago
So, there was a surprise party for a co-worker the other day. They went all-out, even getting his wife. Another co-worker was the designated person to shuffle the victim into the conference room. Now, the invitation was sent via an outlook email invitation. So apparently the surprise was ruined…

Charlie Brown for Congress? What an asshole! 15 years ago
I'm pretty sure that at some point, my email address has been associated with my registration on the voter rolls because I've had a number of candidates email me for their campaign in my district, which, along with calling my phone number and leaving automated messages, makes my selection process…

I had to know how the SpaceX launch went... 15 years ago
Mrs. Wirehead dragged me to the movie theater to see the movie version of Mama Mia (this is after I got dragged to see the theatrical version more than once...) and it just so happened that they hadnt gotten the rocket off the ground by the time the movie started. So what was I to do but fire up…

Yet another big re-sorting 15 years ago
So I've decided that, since I'm not actually using the del.icio.us as a social platform to find new links but mostly as a collector of things I've found while trying to figure something out via web searching or cool stuff I see linked from various blogs, there's no reason not to move most of my…

Nokia N95, new Rm version, three hard drive crashes in a row 15 years ago
The Hard Drives Id like to remind folks to keep backups. See, I'm in the midst of data hell and I only lost one night of sleep over it. I have 2 drives that store my photos. P and Q. P was the first photo drive, a 300 gig Western Digital. Q is the other photo drive, a newer 500 gig Seagate that I…

Email bankruptcy... is it inevitable? 16 years ago
The short story is that I'm hideously overwhelmed about my email archives and have spent a number of hours trying to get them in shape. The long story is that I lost my hard drive with email on it in 2002.. although I have some backups and I haven't ever tried to recover information off of the drive…

Where It's At (got two hard disks and a motherboard) 16 years ago
So, Junkyardog (This being the mutant piece of computer hardware built from pieces found on a roadside... most of which have subsequently been retired) has been flakey for quite some time now. And I've dealt with it. Some of this has been because it's running Gentoo, which, as we all know, kinda…

Deep thoughts 16 years ago
Deep thoughts, by The Wirehead: If programs could scream, would we be so cavalier about kill -9 ing them? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.