I finally got back to climbing today after a 6-week hiatus. I went and signed up for a membership at a local climbing gym and bought all of the necessary equipment. I climbed for about an hour, and actually it didn’t go too badly. One neat thing about the place is that they have auto-belay [...]

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Slashdot | GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers
A GoDaddy Vice President has been caught bidding against customers in their own domain name auctions.
I had been pretty happy with GoDaddy, despite their annoyingly busy web site, as my domain name registrar. I’ve even recommended them to other people. Now they go on the list of companies [...]

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transplants united poster

Originally uploaded by jreidfive

From a support group for those involved in organ transplants.

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Career Day

Originally uploaded by brocktice

I discovered that my scanner will automatically crop out separate photos from the scan bed and load them all into iPhoto. I’ve been scanning all of my old photos so that they can’t be taken away from me by another natural disaster.
I won’t be posting them all to Flickr, and I [...]

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JHU uses Cisco VPN for outside connections to the university network. Unfortunately, this requires using Cisco’s VPN client, which is not really available for free download on the internet at large. Normally when I have a problem, I just re-install it, but the current version provided by Hopkins refuses to install on 10.5.3, citing a [...]

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