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Going through my old post drafts, “cleaning my blog house”, and found this post draft from last year (or maybe the year before). Seems semi-relevant, so what the heck, going ahead and publishing it. Even if some of my points then, seem wrong today. enjoy, critique, flame, etc as…

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I was scanning some online jargon/lingo dictionaries for some site marketing purposes, and came across a new term (new to me):

nerd rustler: The person in a corporate personnel department responsible for hiring computer programmers. (found it here on netlingo.com)

Of course there’s the closely related classic, for which I can…

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If you’ve ever managed engineers, you likely see some truth in this.

Q: How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?

A: None. It’s a hardware problem.

Can you guess how the systems administrator would tell this joke?

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won’t write much, I need to run and set up my pneu-mail.

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too funny.

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indeed a series of tubes. God bless my government.

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while I’m a very strong believer in net neutrality, it’s always good to keep a lighter view on the topic.

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sorry, just linking to these youtube, and assorted other media until I can find the tinkering time to get embedded objects working in wordpress.

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who ever said podcasting was difficult to explain?  even a ninja can.
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creds: Ask A Ninja: Special Delivery 1 “What is Podcasting?”

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I finally got this thing sort of working! and a big NON-thank-you to my hosting company’s worthless documentation, and troglodytic security measures of not allowing chmod (why all the permalinks are broken at the time of this post).

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