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  • New Phoneity

    So I've finally started to do something about my horrible phone service with The Devil. I've canceled my phone, and picked up a new one from The Good Guys. I must say, I'm pretty impressed so far. Buying the phone was pain and hassle free. I picked i...

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  • Not As Smart As I Thought

    Okay, so despite having done some web design here and there, I'm not quite as smart as I thought I was. When I was designing the site, I ran into a problem that affects lots of programmers and web designers. Mainly, that since I know how to do someth...

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  • What. The. Hell.

    So I wake up today to several feet of snow. Okay, that might be hyperbole, but I live in the Lower Mainland, for petes sake. It's not supposed to snow like this after December. Seriously. Rain would be understandable, but a foot of snow? In January? ...

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  • Burnout Paradise -- First Impressions

    Yesterday I took Blacksite: Area 51 and Timeshift. Why did I trade them in? Well, I'll be honest here. They sucked. Hard. Timeshift had barely any plot and had horrible gameplay. The stopping and slowing down of time was fun and all, but when most of...

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  • Must Share The Insanity

    I'm hoping that if I share this with as many people as possible, in hopes that it will lessen my suffering. Look. Watch. Be amazed at the quality of videos found online. I just don't get it.I'm going to go bash my head against a wall untill I get it,...

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  • Wireless Woes

    As fun as being in tech support can be, sometimes the stupidity my fellow workers and I have to deal with is nearly physically painful. The place I work for sells wireless radios. Not the dinky wireless routers you buy at Future Shop or Best Buy. Tho...

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  • Go Me!

    Well, I've done it. I've survived another year of life. Somewhere in the universe, the line that looks like this: "getPerson("Sean Patrick Hagen")->age++;" gets executed. I'm now 22 years of age. Legal to drink everywhere in the world!Seeing as how I...

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  • Language Comparison

    Like I stated in my previous post, I'd like to share some code that I used in a recent programming assignment to show some of the differences between different languages. I'm only going to use Java, Perl, and Python here for two reasons. The first is...

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  • Decline of IT?

    I haven't been feeling to healthy these past few days, hence the non-posting-ness. Oranges and cough drops have helped, although I should probably look at doing some exercise as well. Anyways, a little while back I read an article on Slashdot about t...

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  • Cracking The Power Grid

    From Slashdot, I just found out about this article. In the article, the CIA admits that at least one power outage affecting multiple cities in the past ( no time frame given ) was caused by crackers. The systems running the power grids and utilities ...

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