Ardamis.com is starting out 2012 with a new look, better structured data markup, and a revamped anti-spam system.

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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.

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What happens when your offline achievements were earned while the same gamertag was being used to connect to Xbox Live on another console?

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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.

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Woohoo! GameFly shipped Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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