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1999 GMC Yukon Intake Manifold Gasket Leak
I noticed some time back that my Yukon was stumbling under loads, and tried several repairs and diagnosis techniques without success (I don’t have access to a scanner/reader), so I nursed it along until one evening it was really acting up, and as I looked in the rear view mirror to see if anyone was [...]
Please avoid Symantec/Norton
In the late 90′s I started questioning the quality of Symantec/Norton products as they started showing a large amount of support time (while IT Director at a Video Game Company supporting over 200 workstations)… Norton support was lacking, and we often had to uninstall their products to get our employees workstations up again. This required [...]
Cash4Gold pays a penny. Literally.
I hadn’t heard much about this company, and was surprised at the outlandish Superbowl ad’s. Big names, big greed. Didn’t we used to have a Consumer Protection Agency? Cash4Gold Complaints – Former employee exposing the scams of Cash4Gold.
I heart Sarah Jeck
I’m glad I ran across this story about a student questioning Justice Scalia while on his book tour. Her question was simple; Why aren’t cameras allowed in the Supreme Court even though the court hearings are open, transcripts are available and the court’s justices are open enough to go “out on book tours.”? “Read the [...]
It’s a lie.
On honesty: For whatever reason you refuse to feel this space we’re in, to know its insanity, really know it; whatever your particular anesthetic is, that you hold onto so desperately (the thing, I mean, that makes you think you know who you are); whatever that thing is you allow to keeps you sane, your [...]
Fear or Love
Whenever I’m making a decision that I feel I am ‘emotionally’ involved in, such as answering a question from my (almost 19 y.o.) daughter: “Do you like my new tattoo?” I’ve learned to try and ask myself a question before answering… This question has helped me enormously in my relations with others, and uncovered some [...]
Make ColorZilla work in Ubuntu – Firefox
ColorZilla has the ability to work with Ubuntu, but not the way it is packaged. If you install the regular ColorZilla_1.x.xpi the library that does not work with Ubuntu gets installed and you get the ‘mode not supported on your platform’ error message. The ColorZilla_1.x.xpi (both the one on Mozilla.com and the beta at iostart.com) [...]
Cleaning up WordPress database after UTW
After upgrading to WordPress 2.3 and trying to re-evaluate tag usage, I decided to re-visit an old pet-peeve of mine: The relatively massive (read: gi-normous) size of my wp_postmeta table. It was always the biggest table in my database (thanks to UTW), so whenever I was poking around in the database it caught my eye [...]
Recent site and forum issues
Between the theme change, settling into 2.3 final and trying to bring some style continuity from the new theme into my forums, there have been some short periods of down-time. Last night and this AM were more significant however, so I wanted to post some info: Last night I made a ‘quick’ change to the [...]
489th Bomber Group
A friend of mine approached me and asked about cleaning up a WWII era photo of his Father (Holtmeier) and other B-24 crew members taken in England in 1944. Unfortunately the photo was missing emulsion (the part of the print paper that actually contains the ‘image’) but I think the historical significance and character of [...]
