Archives » January, 2007

Binary Blue gets nixed.

So, I’ve nixed the Binary Blue theme. Why? It’s too big. There are too many images, and the style sheet is fairly large by my standards (22k). Since implementing the theme, my bandwidth usage doubled. So until I can trim down the theme or move my server to a location [...]

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Windows Powershell: First Impressions

I made mention a LONG time ago about Windows Powershell (formerly Monad). I’ve only now recently revisited the platform for automating various tasks (not the least of which is automating a source control get and build of our extremely large Visual Studio 2005 project). Granted, this task above can be done in a batch [...]

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Bamboozled!!!! A review of 4magicus.com

As mentioned previously, I experienced what I can only describe as the worst consumer experience ever with 4MagicUS.com (also known as MicroMagic and ChinPC). I have tried to create a short but detailed list of the problems I’ve had. I’m investigating other methods to make people aware of this situation, but the blogosphere [...]

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New Theme

Finally decided on a new theme: Binary Blue.

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Grrr.

That’s really all there is to say at this point. In my mind I’m writing the rough draft of an open letter to 4magicus.com. It’s been three months since I placed an order with them for memory, almost 2 months since I was supposed to get a refund, and about a week since [...]

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