Ipstenu on March 5th, 2010

I'm planning a trip to Mississippi (to see some in-laws) and then further on (to see some SCA peeps) and then to California (to see my mom) and then I catch a ball game in Chicago before it's back to Ohio (Taffy again, she's 90) and then .... That was leaving out work [...]

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Ipstenu on January 21st, 2010

Or: How I learned to Stop Worrying And Love Open Source
I actually deleted this entire post on Tuesday because I am an idiot and spent a lot of time recovering it, only to realize it needed to be totally re-done anyway. And in the end, they did what I needed!
WordPress 3.0 is the big [...]

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Ipstenu on January 15th, 2010

Earlier this month I talked about how my server was acting wonky and how I fixed it using, among other tools, TOP.
This week I was chatting with a fellow about CPU usage and his site. He runs a rather large Wordpress blog and the database is about 500 megs. As a [...]

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Ipstenu on August 25th, 2009

I'm not going to apologize for making you feel like a schmuck. You know who you are. I have morals and standards and I, personally, don't look up certain information on the net, even though I could, because it's just not my damn business.
At the same time, I'm not trying to [...]

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Ipstenu on August 6th, 2009

Sometimes I look at how seriously people take things and I wonder if I'm defective or if they're just freakin' NUTS.
Fandoms are, as a rule, a little weird. They're nothing new, and have been around since Ogg first learned to play rocks, and garnered a group of fans. Oggies, now known as groupies [...]

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