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• February 13th, 2009

  What kind of guitar would Darth Vader play?

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• November 10th, 2008

  Is working out related to my hormones raging lately?

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• November 5th, 2008

  Help designing a 5 meal a day plan?

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• October 27th, 2008

  How do I find a site my wife is interested in and can use?

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• October 25th, 2008

  How do I move my family to Sweden?

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• April 6th, 2009

  What do you know about female cross dressers?

  Wallet chains and flannel. They’re not called cross dressers… oh nevermind.
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• April 6th, 2009

  Can Timecapsule be used strictly as an external drive?

  Yes, but I highly recommend not doing so, unless you’re using it strictly for backups. Something more redundant like a drobo or an opensolaris box (ZFS FTW!) would be more appropriate.
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• April 6th, 2009

  Sony Trinitron XBR tv problems?

  I usually only budget for a TV to last 10–15 years. Our 27” XBR died a bit ago and the cost of repair (just bench time even) was a fortune. Replacement parts aren’t made and stocked forever, so a period of 10–15 years has done me well.
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• April 6th, 2009

  Whats so good about twitter ?

  I’m more of a fan of Identi.ca. My twitter feed has become so saturated with junk and it seems to me that identi.ca users offer more substance. It also has the “groups” feature which allows you to subscribe to dents (their version of “tweets”) about subjects you like.
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• February 27th, 2009

  Anyone else think Time Warner Cable is the Evil Empire?

  Some outages are easy to pick up on because there’s a piece of addressable equipment that fails and systems in place realize what customers are impacted by its obvious failure. But much like the power company the last mile or so of your service doesn’t include addressable equipment and outages which may be partial (like just certain channels, or box types) aren’t easily picked up on. Even if someone can drill down to check other equipment in your area, if the outage is partial (which it may be, it can get confusing if you don’t work with it daily), it may be difficult to call. When I fall victim to these things (it’s been windy this year), the cooler I am about it with the rep and just ask simplified questions, the more I seem to be able to get done for myself and family. “Can you check other equipment in the area?” or “My neighbors have told me they’re out too, is there an escalation path we can take?” are good questions to ask. Actually showing some interest when dealing with any customer service types from utilities to banks has always gone a long long way for me. In the worst case scenario, I’d imagine a few calls from people who are out in your area will trigger the dispatcher or field tech to either check a pedestal or escalate the problem to someone who handles distribution. @andrew most companies have communications policies that restrict blogging, commenting, tweeting, etc. for the protection of everyone involved. I can’t say exactly who I work for (according to above mentioned policies), but people who work at these type of companies are users of the services as well. I’m a technical person and can’t really help too much with other problems, but I know the people I work with are very passionate and take a LOT of pride in their work.
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