this is kinda freaky…

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For some reason, I’ve been reading the horoscopes more and more these days – not necessarily because I believe in them, mind you, but more because it amazes me how mysteriously close they’ve actually been to what’s going on in my life lately. Here’s my direction for Saturday:

Virgo – Stay home and play on the Internet. Confusion could cause crossed signals with a special someone, so avoid heart-to-heart discussions. Don’t sign on the dotted line when money is at stake.

Of course, chances are I was just going to stay home and play on the Internet anyways, but who knows?!

DHCP Post #168

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…ok folks – just disconnected and rebuilt the network from the ground up…cross your fingers and let’s see how long until DHCP chokes on renewals and starts crapping out on me again…

(Side note: I did find a trick to make my server IP static and that seems to be working ok now – I really hope that this is the last post that I ever have to make about this stupid router!)

Hurricane Katrina donations

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I normally don’t share too much insight with what happens at my day job because I’d like to continue keeping it, but yesterday we got an e-mail that I just can’t help but boast about. In a mere ten days of fundraising for hurricane relief, employees made over $38,000 in donations…which was matched by another $38,000 from the company itself. Along with a special grant from our Employee Association, we donated a total of $86,000 to the American Red Cross for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts… :O

It’s stuff like this that reminds me just how good of a company that I work for, despite some of the other things that might bother me from day to day. Certainly good to see that our little group of about 800 people could step up to make a difference!

curious about cardio

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Does anyone happen to know much about doing cardio exercise…specifically if there’s a set maximum duration to which after it’s not efficient for weight loss???

I’m wondering because I’ve been having trouble finding time to get to the gym over the past couple of weeks. For example, I was supposed to go tonight, but I didn’t finish up my work until just a few minutes ago and I decided that between bed now or bed after 1 AM, now would be better for keeping my job, which is also important! My original goal was to go every other day, which works out to about three times a week, but I usually end up pushing forward a day or two and it tends to screw with my overall schedule. I had conjured up the idea of penalizing myself an extra five minutes for every day that I missed, so that would make tomorrow night’s run a whopping 70 minutes plus cool-down…but if there’s a threshold to be met after a certain amount of time, I do have other things that I could be doing! 😛

Thoughts?

Mmmm…cookies…

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Seriously, is there anything better in this world than warm cookies straight out of the oven with a glass of nice, cold milk?

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Ok, so I can think of two things, but as I don’t seem to have access to either of them right now, sweet, old Betty Crocker is just going to have to subdue my cravings in the meantime… 😛

sheesh…

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I lifted the server-wide ban on hotlinking for, like, a week because it was causing referral issues with the new L7 RSS feed – just pulled a server log and freaking MySpace users are going crazy with leeching bandwidth! WTF?!

Just finished putting directory-specific redirects on the ten most popular images getting leeched – maybe the next rebuilds will require all non-sharable images to be in the same directory or something…a total mess for organizational purposes, but I don’t know any other way to keep them protected. What a tremendous waste of time… 😛