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Speechless: Dilbert Creator’s Struggle to Regain His Voice.
A few years ago Scott Adams, the Dilbert artist, lost his voice to a rare condition called Spasmodic Dysphonia.  Then he thought he found it, even posting on his blog that he had cured himself.  Then he lost it again.
Now thanks to surgery he’s apparently found it again.

This is a lame post, but I need to remember it.  Plus its good karma to pass along a little knowledge.
By default my Tomcat installation wants to start on port 8080. I also have OracleXE’s web console working on 8080. Its a lot easier to change the XE piece than to change my [...]

And for something completely different here’s some contemporary metal for you. An 8 minute long trance/prog rock little something from Isis’s Panopticon album: In Fiction.
Let me know what you think.

I read this last month, but forgot to link to it. It’s a cool overview of the current state of data centers. Which are effectively the hardware behind the internet as we know it.
Magazine Preview - The Architecture Issue - Data Center Overload - NYTimes.com.

It usually begins with a blogger saying that he or she has contracted an illness, followed by a description of a gradual decline in health, often aided by unlikely and unlimited access to a computer beside a supposed hospital bed. Alternatively, for a short, sharp exit, fakers are “killed” in a horrific accident, often a [...]

More moldy oldies to get you swingin’. Here’s Bo Diddley’s Mona. No particular reason except I’ve always liked this song. And of course it’s Bo Diddley.

Working at LAX. Living At LAX. Some of the workers based out of LAX are living in mobile homes in an abandoned parking lot at the airport. Makes sense when you consider the commute.

Unhinged DooWop, what could be better?  Give this a listen, if you don’t tap your feet and snap your fingers then you have a soul of stone, and there’s no hope for you.
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