Hi. It’s been a while. This is pretty much par for the course though. I just wanted to make an update since I’ve spent pretty much all day moving this blog from my old hosting company to a local WordPress install in my homelab. No point in paying for hosting something that I barely update …
Category Archives: Rants
Modem Monitor Update [Updated]
I bought a new modem today, slightly hoping that it will fix whatever connection issues i’m having, it’s a newer model surfboard (SB6190) and as such I’ve had to update my script which checks the status. import requests import datetime from bs4 import BeautifulSoup #import dateparser import tweepy import re #Set up Twitter creds CONSUMER_KEY='[REPLACE …
Comcast can’t keep it up? I’ll let them know about it
So over the last few months my internet service with Comcast has been less than stellar. My connection would drop out at random times throughout the day, on some days I wouldn’t stay connected for more than 20 or so minutes at a time. At first, I was hoping that it was a random issue …
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Trying to move from Sprint to Straight Talk
This whole process has been quite frustrating. But first, let me give you some background information on what i’m trying to do. I’ve been with Sprint for years, I’d say since 2000 or 2001 when i was still on with my parents. Then a few years ago, 2008 i think, I got a new phone …
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Stop Internet Censorship!
I’ve censored the following, in protest of a bill that gives any corporation and the US government the power to censor the internet–a bill that could pass THIS WEEK. To see the uncensored text, and to stop internet censorship, visit: http://americancensorship.org/posts/739/uncensor ██████████ of any ████ is █████ and ████ ███████ the ████████ ███████ of ████ …
We need to fix it, we need to do something!
At the time of this posting, i’m only about half-way done watching this video, but i feel that I need to post this now and share it with everyone i know. What he says sums up what is wrong with our government and makes me want to go to Capitol Hill and kick every politician …
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The Wonderful World of Minecraft
I’ve been playing quite a lot of Minecraft lately, I even have my own server up and running. You’re welcome to join in on the fun! Just connect to krandor.dyndns.org. Our world isn’t very big right now, we’ve been mainly working on crafting stuff and playing with all the stuff you can make… and well, …
outrageous to some; rational to others
Obama invokes ‘state secrets’ claim to dismiss suit against targeting of U.S. citizen al-Aulaqi When i first read about this, i was outraged! I thought that we had taken one of our own citizens and just decided to execute them without reason, without a trial, without a chance of self-defense. But when i read the …
Employer-Employee relations
While I might still be a youngster when it comes to working in the corporate world or knowing how management and employees are supposed to interact, I still think common sense should apply. An employee is expected to perform certain tasks for pay. When asked to take on extra responsibilities the employee is within his …
A New Start
Today was my first day at iPay. We did the usual stuff you do when you start a new job. You fill out paperwork, you get oriented to where everything is, you meet your supervisor and the people you’ll be working with, all that fun stuff. Tomorrow (or actually today since it’s 4am and i …