Monthly Archives: July 2008

Google Street View Car in Duluth

By John | Published: July 21, 2008
Guess what I saw today driving in Lakeside… Kind of hard to see, but yeah it is the Google Street View car.  My phone’s camera is pretty bad, this was as high res at it would allow…
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Uncrappifying your Qwest Modem (if it is a GT-701WG that is)

By John | Published: July 8, 2008
I have DSL service from Qwest.  It is ok.  Beats the competition. The one thing I HATE is the modem I got from them, an Actiontec GT-701WG. The problem?  It was darn near impossible to make it be JUST a modem, not act as a router/gateway, not act as a NAT, no frickin Actioncrap firewall, just [...]
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Moved Hosts again..

By John | Published: July 6, 2008
Moved hosts again.  Taking it all in house.  Yup, this fine blog of mine (and lots of other crap) is now being served off my home brew server sitting behind the TV(also acting as a fileserver).   If there is one thing I freaking hate, it is moving a Wordpress install.  Something always messes up and, [...]
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m night sucksalot

By John | Published: July 5, 2008
Why don’t I listen to people?  Jen and I just sat through The Happening.  Yes, it does suck just as much as every other M Night Shamalama dig dong movie since the Sixth Sense. How he managed to make Mark Wahlberg and John Leguizamo completely suck beyond belief is beyond me.  I’m not even sure why [...]
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