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Tip of the Day: Cleaning An LCD Display

by mitch on April 23, 2007 in Geekery

After cleaning my laptop’s LCD several times with Windex, a fair amount of streaking built up, making the display far less than perfect. A quick search suggested a 50/50 mix of isopropyl alcohol and distilled water was the best solution for safely, and effectively cleaning LCD displays. After mixing a batch, and tearing up an [...]

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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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Tip of the Day: Select Multiple Messages in Gmail

by mitch on March 22, 2007 in Geekery

I find myself often deleting a large series of emails from a rather noisy mailing list, while retaining some messages previously received. Since Gmail’s selection buttons are limited to All, None, Read, Unread, Starred, and Unstarred, I’m forced to press the ‘x’ key, or click a check box for every email in the series. There [...]

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Larry ‘Bud’ Melman dead at 81

by mitch on March 21, 2007 in Random, Television

Larry ‘Bud’ Melman died today at the age of 81. As a long time Late Night with David Letterman fan, I will never forget those zany interviews where Larry ‘Bud’ Melman often held the microphone in front of his own mouth while his subject spoke, and then reversed the position when he spoke. Here’s my [...]

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Tip of the Day: Secure Your Gmail

by mitch on March 21, 2007 in Geekery, JavaScript

From the “Why Didn’t I Think of That” department: GMailSecure has got to be one of the most elegantly simple, yet useful Greasemonkey scripts ever. When I say simple, I mean one line of code: location.href = location.href.replace(/^http:/, ‘https:’); This script ensures your Gmail session using Firefox takes place over a secure HTTP connection providing [...]

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181.4

by mitch on March 20, 2007 in Personal Life

Wow. A whole 2/10 of a pound overnight! The pounds are just melting off! Things went okay yesterday, but I did eat a bit more than I should have at dinner. I didn’t get my second walk in either. Not off to a perfect start. Today for breakfast: a bowl of whole grain cereal, half [...]

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181.6: Ready, Set, Go!

by mitch on March 19, 2007 in Personal Life

I publicly committed to begin a weight-management and exercise program on my return from Houston. I tipped the scales today at 181.6, and am shooting for 170 by April 30. So here it goes. I ate whole grain cereal and a few strawberries for breakfast. For lunch, I’ll have a bowl of soup and half [...]

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Deep in the Heart of Texas…

by mitch on March 13, 2007 in Travel, Work

It’s off to Houston for the week. I got a last minute request to make a trip to support a reseller on a sales call. Only been to Texas twice before and both trips were short visits. I’ll be back on Friday. I’ll have some free time in the evenings, so if you have some [...]

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IMified Up (Temporary Fix)

by mitch on March 12, 2007 in Asides, Geekery

Looks like you can use an alternate screen name to connect to IMified via GTalk/Jabber while they work through some growing pains.

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Site Functioning Normally

by mitch on March 12, 2007 in Asides, Blog Stuff, Blogging, Geekery

According to Dreamhost, the slowdown my site experienced earlier was due to “IO requests getting backed up due to networking issues between [my] HTTP server and the File server.” Things are fine now; let’s hope they stay that way.

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