Brent’s Thoughts

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Brent’s Thoughts — the old blog, 2001 onward. Mostly tech, skepticism, and family.

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Orca MSI Editor

I had to use a program that Microsoft puts out for free today. It is called orca and it can be used to edit MSIs at the database level. It is a good tool, but to get it you have to download like 300 megs…

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Brent's Arcade

I wrote a little bit ago about the arcade machine that I was working on. It is pretty much done now. I need to clean the front of it a little and maybe paint a couple spots, but it is functional and fun. I thought…

ThoughtsJunk

Interview with Joy Behar

Found this while I was out surfing around this weekend. You may not care much about Joy Behar, but she does have some interesting thoughts in this interview .

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Finally

I wondered how long it would take republican voters to finally get tired of the asshats in office. I opened my favorite sites today and it looks like it was a good day in that area among my friends. Caution Maxx's langauge can get rough.…

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Resurrected archives

I pulled a dump of the old forums off of maxx's server and dumped it into a database on one of my servers at work. I spent a little time pulling some of the posts out of it and putting them into this method of…

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The Digital Lifestyle

It seems lately that I haven't been doing a whole lot with the computers that I have at home. Lamar and I were talking about this some and I realized, that unlike when I was in college or right after, that I didn't really have…

ThoughtsGeek

George Lucas says, "Suck it Star Wars Fans"

For those of you that didn't think George Lucas was just out for your money and doesn't really give much of a damn about his fans or the Star Wars movies, this little nugget came out to help change your mind.

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We Made it!!

Ah 06/06/2006 came and went. No end of the world or anything. I hope they get all the crazy people back on the TV today and ask them how they could have been so wrong about everything they were talking about. In other news reports…