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Capturing the Moments Of Your Life

by mitch on April 27, 2007 in Geekery, Talk, Travel

At the end of May, I’ll be rafting down the Rogue River in southern Oregon. I am looking forward to what should be a wonderful adventure with good friends, and to seeing more of Oregon’s beautiful landscape. The trip deserves to be well documented, so I stocked up on Moleskine Cahiers journals and purchased a [...]

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Soda for Grown-ups

by mitch on April 23, 2007 in Random, Talk

OK, so I’ve been busy… cut me some slack! Here’s something to whet your whistle: On a recent trip to San Francisco, I discovered the best soda ever — it’s called GuS. It’s slightly sweet, lightly flavored, and absolutely refreshing. I tried the Dry Meyer Lemon and was hooked… I couldn’t get enough! I can’t [...]

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Merrily Meandering Once More

by mitch on March 8, 2007 in Blogging, Geekery, Personal Life, Talk

I can’t really remember when it started, but I think it was 2001 when I pressed the publish button, sending my first post into the blogosphere. Using an early version of Movable Type I began crafting the blog that became known as dotDrivel. Initially an online journal, dotDrivel eventually morphed into collection of musings and [...]

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Have We Lost The Spam War?

by mitch on March 6, 2007 in Geekery, Talk

This post on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog got me thinking about spam. I feel Jeremy’s pain, the problem he describes is troublesome, It used to be a rare occurrence that a message I sent didn’t make it to the intended recipient’s inbox because of some overly aggressive filtering. No more. It seems to be happening on [...]

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Happy (belated) Birthday, David!

by mitch on March 5, 2007 in Family Affair, Personal Life, Talk

I met David about 17 years ago. We worked together for several years, and our families became very close during that time. It wasn’t uncommon for Jennifer and I to spend weekends hanging out with David and Mary watching a movie, or enjoying the lake (link warning: cheesy music). For years, we vacationed together at [...]

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Steve Jobs On Digital Rights Management (DRM)

by mitch on February 6, 2007 in Geekery, Music, Talk

Today Steve Jobs takes on the controversial topic of DRM. In a post on Apple’s website, Steve Jobs provides some background on DRM and the role it plays in Apple’s ability to offer music in the iTunes Store. He concludes by offering some compelling reasons to scrap DRM. Jobs cites figures regarding the number of [...]

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Apple On Vista’s New Security Features

by mitch on February 6, 2007 in Humor, Talk

These ads always make me laugh. This one apparantly hasn’t been released yet, but it’s making it’s way around pretty quickly. I have to admit, after using Vista a couple of times recently, this ad really hits home.

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Internet Closed for Cleaning?

by mitch on May 5, 2006 in Talk

According to a message sent from the Department of Homeland Security dated March 29, 2006, and posted here, the Internet recently had to be closed for cleaning. According to the email, …the internet will be shut down for cleaning for twenty-four hours from midnight on March 31 through the early hours of April 2. This [...]

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Lunarpages Hosting Down

by mitch on April 24, 2006 in Asides, Geekery, Talk

My site was down for most of the afternoon due to a power outage at my hosting provider. According to this post, since the outage only affected a single floor, backup generators did not come online as expected. I am not sure I understand why they couldn’t start them manually.

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Thinking Before You Comment

by mitch on April 24, 2006 in Blog Stuff, Talk

I know I’m not the first, but a recent experience taught me a valuable lesson: There is no “undo” button when posting a comment to someone else’s weblog. Stumbling upon a post offering what I thought was a bad piece of advice, I felt compelled to inflict my personal opinion on the site owner. While [...]

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