From the monthly archives:

November 2008

Just an Ordinary Day…
Yesterday, I was minding my own business, wrapping up work with the last few patients of the day, when a few hunger pangs struck. I didn’t think too much about it, but eventually once I left the office, I drove back toward home. About halfway on the trip, hunger set it again, [...]

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Not to be outdone by the likes of other online vendors, Microsoft [MSFT] has posted its own Black Friday sale, which extends from November 28 until November 30 evening.
I’d missed the initial report from Larry about the sale, but I noticed it when logged into Xbox LIVE earlier today.
On the whole, not a lot to [...]

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Javamancy Updated VII

November 29, 2008 at 7:18 AM · 1 comment

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Javamancy has completed the upgrade to WordPress 2.6.5.
Thanks for being patient with us. A lot of you fellow bloggers have been upgrading your WordPress blogs as well, so hopefully it’s been relatively uneventful for you. There was a lot of cruft excised as well (hopefully you won’t see any of it!), so it certainly is [...]

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There are some selected Xbox 360 games that may appeal to you if you’re a Xbox 360 gamer.
Check out these titles:

BioShock : $19.95
Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway : $17.95
Call of Duty: World at War : $50.99
Far Cry 2 : $37.99
Grand Theft Auto IV : $37.99
Saints Row : $9.95 (yeah, you know about this game, right?)

There were other [...]

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Black Friday Deals at Amazon

November 28, 2008 at 12:05 AM · 0 comments

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So, now that Black Friday is here, check out Amazon.com’s Black Friday deals. 
I’m not sure if the deals just stop once Black Friday is over, but hopefully not.

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Black Friday!

November 28, 2008 at 12:01 AM · 1 comment

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I was so worried that I was not going to be able to rush out of the house and stand in all sorts of lines to buy… whatever it is that’s being sold. Like electronics, food, games, food, clothing, food, house improvement products, food, and food…
But there was a massive flood of E-mails from well-meaning [...]

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Amazon Customers Vote (in 2008)

November 27, 2008 at 1:00 AM · 0 comments

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The Amazon Customers Vote contest is back! Check it out now!
In short, it’s a promotion where several rounds of play involve voting on special deals that you’re interested in. If you’re lucky (and randomly selected, ‘natch), you’ll get invited to buy the deal you expressed interest in. Easy ’nuff, right?
N.B.
By the way, this promotion ends [...]

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Thanksgiving Day

November 27, 2008 at 12:01 AM · 0 comments

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Today is the celebration for Thanksgiving Day in the U.S.
A lot of people focus primarily on the traditional turkey/meat-like dinner (or, I just found out, the turkey/meat-like lunch), followed by a marathon shopping extended weekend. And let’s not forget that it also launches the winder holiday shopping season in a lot of countries.
Of course, while [...]

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Remember several days ago, when I’d been roaming the streets and offices around the Washington DC metropolitan area, tapping into the collective mindshare of the American people and listening to what they were most concerned about with the incoming administration?
In a (somewhat) bold-ish move, a couple of minutes ago, during Obama’s lecture on what he [...]

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WordPress 2.6.5 was released yesterday to address one critical security exploit and three additional bugs.
The major security issue: there appears to be an interesting quirk that manifests as a potential cross-site scripting (XSS) exploit that impacts Apache 2.x IP-based virtual hosts.
As reported by the WordPress folks themselves, they’ve released version 2.6.5 once they learned of [...]

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