Archive for July 2006
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Are you ready for some football?
I sure as hell am. Tech’s going to kick butt this year (hopefully). With Graham Harrell taking the reins of the nation’s most prolific passing offense for the umteenth year straight, I’m actually quite optimistic of our chances of finally taking the Tech program to the next level.
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System Administrator Appreciation Day
Apparently, today is the 7th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. Why have I never heard of this? What a novel idea though!
A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating system, patched it for security, made sure the power and air conditioning was working in the server room, monitored it [...] -
Interesting Numbers
50 billion: the number of e-mails dispatched every day wordwide; in 2001 the traffic was less than 12 billion
88 percent of e-mails are junk including about 1 per cent which are virus-infected
32: The average number of e-mail messages received per person per day. This is rising by 84 per cent each year
440 million: The number [...] -
T-Mobile Sidekick 3
I finally have it.. my new toy: a T-Mobile Sidekick 3. Getting it was the hard part, but I’m not going to make this a complaint post. I’m thoroughly amazed by this device.
Web Browsing. Amazing. It’s not some crappy WAP text browser. Nope. The SK3 has a javascript-interpreting, image-displaying engine. Granted it’s not the same [...]
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Congrats!
Congratulations to my darling wife Monica on her new job! Instead of driving 45 minutes, she’s accepted a kindergarten position at Lubbock Cooper North Elementary School that is eight minutes from our house.
Congrats Honey!