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Bits and Pieces of Work

Being a contractor, I forgot about the magic of expensing things.  I can do that now as an employee, and it is nice.  While I am not going to go “hog wild,” I really forgot how this basic thing is quite nice.
Getting access to places and applications is a fairly easy process, but I miss [...]

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These are the times…

…that try men’s souls.  While things are not as bad as the words Thomas Paine wrote during the beginning of the Revolutionary War, this week has been incredibly hectic at work.

Spent part of Monday in mandatory training, then was at work much later working on a minor problem
On Tuesday, I planned for an upcoming change [...]

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Working Hard for the Money

I certainly was under no illusions how much work I had in store for me with my new role at work.  Nonetheless, today was one of those days that was just a bit crazier than the norm.
I had a conference call at 8:00 AM this morning, and then I spent the morning taking care of [...]

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WordPress 2.5.1

In case you happened to have missed it, WordPress 2.5.1 dropped on Friday.  It is a release to address a security issue, and it includes over 70 other fixes.  The installation is, as usual, pretty easy.
Go download it, especially if you are running WordPress 2.5.

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Avoiding the Pain of the Verizon Actiontec DSL Modem/Router

The Verizon Actiontec GT704WG Wireless  Gateway pictured below is an incredibly engineered piece of FAIL.

If Verizon attempts to send you this for your DSL service, run away from this piece of hardware as fast as you can.  There are two major problems I have with this hardware:

it uses Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) for securing the [...]

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