The opening passage of “We Help Daddy”, by Mini Stein, has very clear echos of Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury”, intentional or not.
Two Xbox consoles, one gold account, and offline achievements
What happens when your offline achievements were earned while the same gamertag was being used to connect to Xbox Live on another console?
Autonegotiation
Some notes on the commonly misunderstood subject of network autonegotiation, with an emphasis on duplex mismatches caused by differences in configurations of two partners to a connection.
GameFly shipped Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Woohoo! GameFly shipped Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim!
A common sense workaround for installing SetPoint in a VMware virtual machine
A workaround to installing Logitech’s SetPoint utility in order to map mouse buttons on a Windows XP virtual machine running in VMWare Workstation 7.
My new Dell Precision 690 workstation
I’m not a hardware guy, but I am excited about what I’m going to do with my new-to-me Dell Precision WorkStation 690.
A PHP MySQL snippet for looking up names
A PHP snippet and MySQL query for an Ajax autocompleter lookup of people names by either “Firstname Lastname” or “Lastname, Firstname” from a single input field.
GoDaddy phpMyAdmin error #1045 – Access denied for user
How GoDaddy’s new MySQL database form accepts mixed case characters as a username, then converts the username to lowercase without alerting you, potentially causing login problems down the road.
Configuring FileZilla FTP to use active mode to resolve “425 Can’t open data connection” errors
How to configure the FileZilla FTP client to use active mode in order to resolve “425 Can’t open data connection” errors, and why they occur.
Ardamis in 2012 – new look, more microdata, faster code
Ardamis.com is starting out 2012 with a new look, better structured data markup, and a revamped anti-spam system.
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Posted on 22 January 2012 by Oliver Baty with tags blogging, comment spam, css, Google, javascript, themes, WordPress, xhtml and categorized Google, Web Site Dev, WordPress