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The forgotten cron job

Diamonds might be forever, but cron jobs are no slouches. Upon adding a new cron task to a development machine I noticed that I had a cron job that had been running on the hour, every hour, since sometime in

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Posted in Geekery, Hackery, omgCron

New Venture: WP Plugin FU

WordPress: insecure spaghetti code or platform extraordinary and plenipotentiary?  Meh. Its the biggest kid in the room.  18 million active installations. Several million of which aren’t even zombie spam blogs. (maybe) I threw up a new site to host some

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Posted in WordPress

Lessons Learned

Slideshare.net is one of my very favorite sites.  If you haven’t been blown there by the tides of the random web before you are missing out. SlideShare is the YouTube of PowerPoints. If you have worked in the 9 to

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Posted in Employment, Geekery

Hacking the Job Hunt

Over the last couple of months lots of people have chatted me up about finding employment in the IT sector.  The economic ass-plosion of 2008 is still reverberating in 2010, and from the few datapoints I have seen in my

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Posted in Employment, Geekery

Open Source in Obama’s Gov 2.0?

The inauguration has come and gone (wonkette.com) and as the Mall puts itself back together and licks the wounds left by 2 million interlopers and their discarded hand warmer wrappers, the Obama administration is taking office.  Since I am currently

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Posted in .gov 2.0, Geekery