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Wednesday, December 27, 2006 in
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Happy Holidays everyone! Sorry I am late, but I was to busy playing with my new Nintendo DS Lite, speculating about what we will see at [MWSF](http://www.macworldexpo.com/) on the 9th, mourning the [worlds loss](http://feeds.uneasysilence.com/~r/uneasysilence/blog/~3/66487395/) early on the 25th, and very slowly becomming motivated to work on my projects again, and learn ruby! Wish me luck, and you all have a happy new year!
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Sunday, December 17, 2006 in
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Only 17 hours left to get your [MacHeist Bundle](http://macheist.com)! I got mine yesterday(payday! woohoo).
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Sunday, December 17, 2006 in
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So I moved over to a [Media Temple(mt)](http://mediatemple.com) Grid Server(gs) about a week ago and have made the transition over pretty smoothly. There have been a couple problems, but nothing major, and nothing I wouldn’t put past such a new product. If anybody is looking for hosting I would highly recomend (mt). They have an awesome control panel and even greater customer service.
***\*disclaimer\**** – I am not affiliated with (mt) in any way.
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006 in
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About six months ago now I took a break from technology and the web in general. I stopped blogging, I closed my feed reader without any intention of re-opening it, I unsubscribed from a lot of the mailing lists I was on, and I closed a lot of the constantly open Firefox tabs I had. I set out into the real world to see what ‘normal’ life was like for someone my age. Partying a lot, meeting lots of people, being social, working a job just for a paycheck, procrastinating my education, etc.
Looking back now, I did this for far to long. I enjoyed it sure, but it wasn’t the same without technology. Luckily I worked for Cingular so I got to geek out about cell phones a lot. I missed blogging. I missed the masses of information at my fingertips. I missed the new technologies. I missed it all.
I remember when I first got into computers and technology. When I got my first computer, I refused to install anything on it but Linux. I spent a month and a half trying to get a distro to run on the POS Pentium 100mhz(not a Pentium 2, a Pentium) with 32MB of ram and a 2.2GB hard drive. I learned more about computer hardware having to test and replace most of the parts in it than I ever would have learned in a classroom or out of a book. Ever since the first day I got it working and booted that box up into X running KDE 1.something I have been in love with the idea of experiencing something new, and figuring it out, for the most part, on your own.
About 6 months ago the whole technology ‘fad’ caught up with me, and I forgot about those early days. I wondered why I still did it, did I really still love it? Had I learned as much as I could on my own? Had I grown lazy to the idea of learning? So I took a break from it all(almost).
I gave myself the project of moving my website to a new host and setting up a decent development environment for coding and designing(trying to at least heh) when I got back. I fell in love all over again. I have done almost nothing for the past 4 days except sit in front of my computer, updating stuff, fixing stuff that broke, researching other things. I’ve got a lot of stuff on my plate now, but *I* put it all there. And I will love every second of it now.
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Sunday, December 10, 2006 in
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After a long stint at [StartLogic](http://startlogic.com), irgeek.net has moved to a new home at [Media Temple](http://mediatemple.com). Their new Grid Server is exactly what I have been looking for in a hosting account. It is a mid range between a dedicated server and a standard shared hosting account. It offers SSH access and a lot of the server control that you want from a DV, but it is a managed server so you don’t have to do any of the sysadmin stuff as with the DV. I spent about 45 minutes on the phone with a tech support rep last night and he was spectacular, had a good answer to every question I asked. He didn’t sound like a monkey, actually sounded like he knew what he was doing. Thanks a lot Milton!
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