test post after restore

Trying to restore the backup database again. Looks like it might have been a mysql issue. A little unforseen maintenance and one broken RAID controller later, we’re back online. Lost a few days, though, and for some reason, the ZuckerBlog page appeared to be publishing from the MissingLinks page as well. In fact, all the […]

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sdfsd WTF?

My keyboard went offline when I plugged in my BB today. I started mashing keys to test it out, and Google made some interesting search suggestions.

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MT-Twitter and Shortening URLs

I’ve been using the MT-Twitter plugin for a while now, so that when updating the MissingLinks page, a corresponding twitter posting is made. It used to be using bit.ly to shorten the URLs (prior to the big server crash, I was using icanhaz.com, but lost all my code when the RAID controller on the server […]

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Career Cruising

… or “What do I want to be when I grow up?” R sent me to the Kitchener Public Library’s career cruiser questionnaire. I don’t know, maybe it’s a slow day or something. Essentially, you answer a bunch of questions about what you like or dislike in a job, and it throws you a list […]

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Unfortunate Domain Names

From 11points.com. Unfortunately, their permalinks aren’t working, so you may never see the article. Fortunately, I put the best ones below: sydneytherapist.com Officially: SydneyTherapist.com, the website of Tanya Koens, a sex therapist in Sydney, Australia. (No word if she is affiliated with Tobias Funke.) Unintentionally: SydneyTheRapist.com, home page of a guy named Sydney who just […]

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Highest IQ in Waterloo?

Whoa. That’s a toughie. What with the High-tech triangle, RIM, those nerds at the University of Waterloo, and the Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics (where Stephen Hawking is rumoured to be kept in a sealed jar these days), one would suspect we’ve got our own little Eureka here, in the heart of Southwestern Ontario. Of […]

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