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So my Darter showed up yesterday (DHL rocks), and it is just super-sweet. The screen is bright and clear, the keyboard is sturdy and responsive and a good size. The battery life is superb, and the touchpad is one of the best I’ve ever used. I think my complaints are limited to [...]

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So many of us have bought computer hardware just to get home and realize that there are serious issues with hardware compatibility. So I had an idea….
Next time you go into Best Buy or Circuit City or $RETAILER, why don’t you bring your Kubuntu Live CD (okay, you can bring an Ubuntu Live CD [...]

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Mitt Romney is bad for America. I will explain this one in a little more matter-of-fact terms than I did when I talked about Ron Paul.
The War in Iraq
On his own website (see here), Mitt Romney states that he believes that he “think[s] the surge is the best course we have at this stage.” [...]

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So, what is katapult, and why would it be fun or profitable for me?!
Katapult is a KDE program that increases your productivity by giving you unlimited access to your programs, music, documents, a spellchecker, and a calculator, without ever reaching for the mouse! Now, some of you may like your mouse, and that’s cool, [...]

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Okay, so some of you are going to notice my transition from blog.notsosoft.net to manchicken.com for the blog. This is for two reasons. One reason is that I’m trying to attract more free software traffic with the new domain name. The other reason is that I plan on using notsosoft.net for more [...]

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Many of you know that I’m the very happy and proud owner of an American Pit Bull Terrier. This type of dog gets a lot of guff because of several cowards–worldwide, but particularly in the United States–like to train them for violence, put them in a ring, and make them kill one another.
Last night [...]

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So, I figured with all the talk of race in recent days, it would make a great idea for us to show something that was a bit more provocative, and something that digs a little below the surface of our normal discussion.
This is an original song by Tay Zonday about world-wide racism, specifically racism against [...]

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So, on June 15th of 2007 I wrote this letter to the current domain broker owning notsosoft.com:
You all have a parked domain at notsosoft.com. I’m wondering if you would be willing to sell it at a reasonable price since it’s just parked. Thanks.
Today I got a reply from them. Here is the reply:
Hi [...]

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Recently, I’ve had an unfortunate amount of traffic from white supremacists who dislike my criticism of a Republican Senator from Texas. One in particular has a blog, filled with hate and violence–be careful reading some of his links, some of them are pretty disturbing.
This supporter of the not-so-honorable Ron Paul has actually tried to [...]

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Hey folks, sorry if you saw any weird errors. MySQL had a–from what I’ve been told–somewhat normal failure, and there was no data loss. I’m betting it’s just a weird transaction mishap or something. Either way, thanks to the magic of phpMyAdmin, the problem has been solved and the error is gone. [...]

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