http://stevec.qiguang.net The neverending search for EXP Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:10:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Although it can come across as cliche and hackneyed, the story of the underprivileged youth working their way up in society can still be quite inspiring as it is here. http://stevec.qiguang.net/2009/07/06/inspiring ... you look at a digital clock, see 4:04, and think, "Oh no! My clock is broken!" And then right after, "Lol, that's so funny, I should blog about it..." http://stevec.qiguang.net/2009/06/19/you-know-youre-a-geek-when-2 I have no idea how people in the past survived without being able to purchase the following items from a single online store (with free shipping): 2 x 2 TB OEM hard drives Thermos 16 ounce travel mug Case of 6 x Method green tea + aloe foaming hand soap 1 set of Gorham ... http://stevec.qiguang.net/2009/06/04/my-latest-box-from-amazoncom Okay, so I've known about this idea for a while but never had a chance to try it out until now. The basic idea is if your hard drive suddenly fails and your computer can no longer read it, putting it in a freezer for a few hours might ... http://stevec.qiguang.net/2009/05/09/hard-drive-failed-stick-it-in-the-freezer It's natural to feel wronged when you see your savings get cut in half or more due to a widespread economic downturn caused by irresponsible greed on Wall Street. It's natural to feel misled and to seek out a scapegoat. It's wrong to accuse and lynch workers in ... http://stevec.qiguang.net/2009/03/25/on-the-topic-of-aig-bonuses Few things upset me more than greedy companies taking advantage of consumer ignorance. I own about 30 domain names, and therefore I get a lot of domain name spam-- both emails and letters in the mail. Some of the letters in the mail attempt to pass themselves off ... http://stevec.qiguang.net/2009/03/23/domain-renewal-scam If you can get past the utter despair this story casts on the state of the economy, maybe you can appreciate the hypocritical irony in the idea of A.I.G. using government bailout money to sue the government. http://stevec.qiguang.net/2009/03/19/aig-sues-the-us Did anyone else notice that the awards music at the 81st Annual Academy Awards sounded an awful lot like the opening to "Belle" from Disney's Beauty and the Beast? You know, the part where it goes, "Little town, it's a quiet village. Every day, like the one before..." ... http://stevec.qiguang.net/2009/03/07/music-at-the-81st-annual-academy-awards My hard drive on one of my computers died recently, so I ended up reinstalling several OSes (Ubuntu, WinXP MCE, and Win7). I use grub to dual boot, or in this case, triple boot, and in the past it's always worked fine. Now suddenly the Windows OSes wouldn't ... http://stevec.qiguang.net/2009/02/21/grub-settings So I'm trying to create a subscriptions feature for the new Manna website that I've been overworking myself on for the past several months. Seriously, if I applied my hourly rate from my last job to the number of hours I've spent on that site, I'd have made about... ... http://stevec.qiguang.net/2009/02/09/cron-permissions