Monthly Archives: June 2008

Custom Lifehacker RSS Feed

Jun 26, 2008 – 11:10

Lifehacker’s RSS feed has been overwhelming me for some time now. It’s one of my favorite sites, but I haven’t had much luck in tailoring the signal/noise ratio, so tonight I’m trying to setup a custom RSS feed, ala these instructions.
So far I’m attempting to follow all posts tagged “Linux, Ubuntu, Xbox, Firefox Tip, [...]

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Damn the Lightning! Full Fiber Optic Speed Ahead!

Jun 22, 2008 – 18:55

We’re back online at home. Whew. We lost our cable modem (RIP RCA DCM315R) and DVR to lightning almost two weeks ago. We were already scheduled to get FiOS, so we held out getting the old Cox Cable service restored in lieu of the FiOS. Okay, that’s not completely true, but the [...]

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Jonesin’ for some Web

Jun 13, 2008 – 21:58

The internet and cable are still out at home, and it’s a dreadful thing. And it had to happen the week I start counting calories, primarily by using online tools. Whoa is us.
We’re both hanging out in the “business office” for our condo complex to get a little web time in [...]

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Quick Food Math

Jun 12, 2008 – 10:26

My breakfast typically consists of scrambled eggs and mixed fruit (pineapple, grapes, grapefruit slices, and orange slices). I weigh the eggs and the fruit separately, but I’m tired of guessing the weights of each amount of fruit and don’t have the time to count up each fruit’s calories. This morning I spent a little [...]

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