Monthly Archives: April 2006

Ego boost!

Posted on April 29, 2006 by Josh Peters

I received a compliment from Tim O’Reilly!?! How cool is that? I admit, this is a bit of a Mean Joe Green Coke® moment for me. That’s yet another bonus of the greatness of the Internet–you get to occasionally interact … Continue reading →

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Software Kicks Ass

Posted on April 29, 2006 by Josh Peters

After several rounds with Verizon and Vonage I finally got all of the issues worked out with my phone service. For the time being, until I find a new job I want to retain the phone number that was on … Continue reading →

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Secrets Prevent Security?

Posted on April 28, 2006 by Josh Peters

Larry Beinhart author of The Librarian, Wag the Dog, and Fog Facts has written an interesting article about how secrecy prohibits justice by preventing the differing hands of government from knowing what one is doing. ie the CIA keeps some … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The Accidental Spy

Posted on April 27, 2006 by Josh Peters

Tonight I watch a great Jackie Chan movie “The Accidental Spy.” Mr. Chan stars as an orphan who finds out his birth father was a Korean spy after the Korean War. He travels to T|rkiye to retrieve a saftety deposit … Continue reading →

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Decadent Pleasure!

Posted on April 27, 2006 by Josh Peters

It’s amazing that I lasted these 27 years without realizing how great some of life’s pleasures can be. Tonight I discovered one of those pleasures. Care to make a guess? Melted cheddar cheese on top of Cheetos®

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New URL!

Posted on April 27, 2006 by Josh Peters

Well, I’m in the process of organizing my site a bit, and created an alias of blog.josh-peters.name to go along with everything else. The new URL points to /blogs/personal because I’ve also started a blog for keeping tabs on Bible … Continue reading →

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Animals Have Problems Too

Posted on April 27, 2006 by Josh Peters

PETA sucks Attention Stephen Colbert!

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Quote of the Day

Posted on April 26, 2006 by Josh Peters

Quoth Steve Kleinvehn: you popped the google maps-zit and little viral pngs spewed forth in reply to me describing my (apparently failed) efforts to automate the download of the most-zoomed-in view of Google Map’s tiles. Over 330,000 tiles were downloaded … Continue reading →

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I’m Switchin’ to Potted Plants!

Posted on April 26, 2006 by Josh Peters

I’ve been sold by T-rex’s unfallible logic!

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Second Life Meets University

Posted on April 26, 2006 by Josh Peters

I love it when people find new and creative uses for technology like this! For years people have been doing distance learning via the Internet. Now, thanks to a increasingly popular game/virtual universe Second Life Ball State University is starting … Continue reading →

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