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Reports of my death were greatly exaggerated

July 2nd, 2007 by Rich Zygler
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Yes, I have been away from blogging for awhile. No, I am not dead. I have been busy with two things. Recouping from a back injury. And slam-dunking a large project at the day job.Share this via del.icio.us, digg, email, etc.

Facebook.com opens up facebook platform similar to ning.com

May 25th, 2007 by Rich Zygler
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Read about the new developer environment for Facebook.com on cnn.com. I can't tell yet if this is Facebook.com adopting some of the Ning.com philosophy of "create your own social network" or if it's just a giant widget factory on steroids. No longer will Facebook consider itself merely another social network. ...

Best… Typo… Ever…

July 13th, 2006 by Rich Zygler
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From: Sysadmin Subject: Server auto logout FYI Interactive logins on all unix machines will now automatically timeout after 1 hour of inactivity. If you are running a long-running job/script, this will be unaffected if it runs past an hour. If you are just shitting at a ...

Still fleshing out the syntax highlighting

November 19th, 2005 by Rich Zygler
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I'm not 100% happy with the way the syntax highlighting is working out so far with the code examples. I may have to hack up the plug-in. My apologies if it's annoying you as well. UPDATE 12/2/2005: It would help if I actually included the css file, eh? ...

Personal Disaster Recovery for the Masses

December 21st, 2004 by Rich Zygler
tags: General, MySQL, PHP, Perl | No Comments »

A few people make fun of me because I have a personal disaster recovery plan for my computers, data, and applications that are located in my home. These people aren’t in the IT industry. Those in IT usually nod thoughtfully and muse, “I should do that too.” At ...

Studies: Lost sleep equals gained weight

December 7th, 2004 by Rich Zygler
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I've always said that at a certain point, sleep and food are interchangeable. I learned this back in my first run through college during the many sleepless nights I spent studying. I also find the same thing happens when I'm up late programming. If I'm missing a ...

sure I look like a follower

November 30th, 2004 by Rich Zygler
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I might look like a follower. This is afterall a blog that I'm starting and everyone is doing that. Some of you may remember the old days of this site. We were blogging before there was such a term. We had a webcam before the words ...