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Archive | 2012

It doesn’t have to be difficult

13 April 2012 0 Comments

I’m nearing the end of my second week of my first class at University of Phoenix, and it is a very trying experience — for me, anyway. I’m aware that I don’t stick with many things to the end, and that’s a flaw I’ve been trying to change. Well, that’s a lie; I haven’t tried [...]

Ramblings

Education, Personal Growth, University of Phoenix

Grub prompt after upgrading Ubuntu 10.04 to 11.04

6 April 2012 2 Comments

I spent the morning of my day off taking care of some long-overdue server upgrades. All of my Linux servers are running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, but I decided I’d like to give them all an upgrade to the latest 11.10 (although 12.04 is due later this month). Of course, this simply meant executing do-release-upgrade a [...]

Geek Stuff

Grub, Linux

Back to School (again)

1 April 2012 0 Comments

Today is my last day of freedom… sort of. At least that’s how I would have spoken back in middle school. Tomorrow is the first day of my second try at higher learning — this time for a Bachelor of Science in Business with a concentration is Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Last time I only [...]

News

Business, Education, Ener-Tel, Personal Growth

JavaScript: Base64 Encoder/Decoder

28 January 2012 0 Comments

I recently had a need (or, probably more appropriately, a desire), to obfuscate some data which would be passed to a server in a URL. Of course, it’s impossible to encrypt anything using JavaScript since it executes client-side, but you can certainly obfuscate data enough to ward off most tinkering attempts. I decided base64 would [...]

Snippets

JavaScript

Goodbye, sweet ol’ Jasmine

22 January 2012 0 Comments

It is with great sorrow and a heavy heart that I share with you the passing of Jasmine, a small, black cat who lived a full and pampered life of nearly 16 years. She and Chantel (the himalayan/ragdoll mix pictured here with Jasmine) were the last family pets my brother and I had at home [...]

News

Cats, Death, Pets

Unreasonable People

2 January 2012 0 Comments

We all do it from time-to-time, and some more often than others: allow our emotions to control how we react instead of using logic to properly deal with a situation. As a person who frequently turns to the Internet for information, I often stumble into forums and blog comments where one person says a little [...]

Ramblings