Brent’s Thoughts

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

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Wow look at these cobwebs

Original thread from my old forums Yeah this places is sitting pretty much unused isn't it? The funny thing is that there is stuff going on in my real life, it just seems like there is no point in posting anything about it it. Don't…

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Gospel Singing

As I sit here waiting for this to end, I thought I would dispense some sagely wisdom. If you aren't into gospel singing, and you are forced to go to one, what is you should do is..... Jump off a cliff. Make sure there are…

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Live from Norristock

(Evening one) Well most everyone that is going to be here was here. Jeremiah hasn't arrived yet, but he is supposed to sometime today. It was a great time so far, even though it has actually been pretty chilly here. Since there were fewer people…

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Thank god we have the reactionary Press...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/04/manhunt_murder_claim/ This really just pisses me off. There are a couple things here that need to be looked at. 1. The parents of the murder victim obviously had no idea what games there son was playing, since he was the one that was playing the…

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Storms

Original thread from my old forums We have had some really crazy storms here lately and the worst so far was last night. It knocked power out at the house till about noon today. Driving around today on the way to work showed a car…

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New Photo Album Pages

I have setup some photo albums that are available from the web. I am still working on getting it setup the way I want it. I think I might be able to hook it into these forums so that everyone doesn't have to relogin or…

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Inhospitable

Original thread from my old forums or... The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful. I headed up to Indiana this weekend to work on a Linux server for www.walther.org. Mom and Stacey decided that they wanted to come up with me so that they could…

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Skype

Original Thread from my old forums I have been messing around with this for a bit and it seems like a pretty good way to talk to people. It doesn't take up much bandwidth and it seems to hold together pretty well. Plus no push…

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Bad Week

Man all kindsa bad things went down last week it seems like. One of the ducks got killed by an animal at the farm. My office got broken into and some stuff taken and the worst one of all is that ChiChi passed away. Since…

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un-Defeated

Some of you might remember the first post in this section Defeated. Well Monday I finished up the work on getting a new Fedora Core 2 server connected to our AD and working correctly. It has been a real PITA to get this working right,…