Tag Archives: Rant

Just Beat It Already

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Martin

Seriously, I’ve had enough; I’m tired of hearing about Michael Jackson. Continue reading →

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Swashbuckling Under Pressure

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Martin

I’ll admit it – I am a former pirate. Back in high school and college, I traded MP3′s with friends. We burned each other copies of games. I was not a stranger to the occasional DVD copy. And I ran an illegal OS with illegal software for years. Much has changed since those days, however… Continue reading →

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A Notch Below the Rest

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Martin

The other day at work, I wanted to move around some of the items we have sitting on a table at the back of the room I work in. This included a monitor, a small printer, and a large flatbed scanner. The monitor and the printer were easy to move, but the scanner had run out of USB cord length, so I couldn’t move it any farther away from the computer it was attached to. Thinking I had remembered seeing a USB extension cord floating around the office somewhere, I got out our box of random computer parts and started digging through it in hopes of finding something useful. Continue reading →

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