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My AIM Buddy List Disappeared

November 23, 2009

I’ve been using AOL Instant Messenger for around 10 years now and today marks the saddest day I’ve had online thanks to AOL. My buddy list containing over 200 contacts, has somehow disappeared from existence.  I tried the “usual” recovery methods including searching for logs/backups of my buddy list. I’ve also logged into AIM Express [...]

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GeoCities Closing After 14 Years

October 27, 2009

For what seems like a lifetime on the Internet, free web hosting provider GeoCities is closing its doors after a long 14-year affair with providing individuals with their own corner of cyberspace. From guest books to flashy scrolling text, GeoCities was one of the most popular hosting providers in its heyday.
A decade after its acquisition [...]

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Quitting IRC After 12 Years

July 21, 2009

Connection reset by peer? That damn peer will get you every time. I first found IRC, also known as Internet Relay Chat back in the 90’s when I was a kid. It was a website I stumbled upon while searching the great sites of their time such as HotBot, Yahoo!, and AOL. They used a [...]

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Starbucks Customers Better Than You?

April 28, 2009

When it comes to coffee, I love it. Not just for the caffeine but for the taste. I love coffee so much I drink a ton of it whenever I can — I even enjoy coffee-flavored items such as ice cream, candy, and alcoholic beverages. Needless to say I’m also a big fan of the [...]

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Anti-Virus Pirates Are Stupid

February 27, 2009

You know what really makes me laugh? When people, sometimes classified as “advanced noobs” try to steal money from poor antivirus companies by downloading “full version” working retail copies of their antivirus software to protect their personal computer. If you knew that 99% of the people downloading your file had absolutely no antivirus protection, wouldn’t [...]

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Turn Old Hard Drives Into Time Machines

July 26, 2008

I’ve all but gutted my first Hackintosh — the Celeron D-powered war horse and by doing so, I saved myself some cash. While everyone’s running to buy the wireless Time Capsule device, I only have one machine i really need to back up and that’s my HackBook Pro I use at the office. Why waste [...]

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“Free Mac” Offers Not For Me

June 20, 2008

I’ve been thinking for the past couple days about taking up one of these amazing website offers of absolutely “free” prizes just for completing some random offers. One of the biggest prizes and most popular happen to be Apple products. A free iPhone, Mac Mini, Macbook Pro, etc. A quick Google search undercovers multiple blog [...]