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A Coruna

A Coruna, Spain

A Coruña, Spain
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Wine Country

Napa Valley, CA
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Jellyfish

Long Beach, CA
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Woopra

woopraI heard just heard about another web analytics program today called Woopra. I have to be honest and say that my first reaction is that I’m quite happy with Google’s Analytics. However, after watching this video, I can’t wait to try it for my sites. Looks like fun.

Termites

WoodThis was a 2×4. A 2×4 in a fence on our property. Bummer.

Speed Up Your Internet Access

opendns.pngDoes your home internet access take forever to go to websites getting stuck at the phrase, “Looking up site www.185vfx.com” in the status bar?

I stumbled across a fix…

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Conspiracy?

Pink Floyd released the “Take in Back” music video in 1994. I worked long hours on one shot in the video for two weeks, laying it off to tape only minutes before our producer had to board a red-eye flight to Florida for the editing session the next morning.

12 years later I received this email with this image and the following message:

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Excel Dates Incompatible from PC to Mac?

I discovered an amazing “bug” in excel tonight. I needed to create a copy of part of a spreadsheet into a new sheet. See if you can spot the difference between the original on the left and the new spreadsheet on the right:

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You’ll notice that the dates are off by exactly 4 years and 1 day after a simple cut-and-paste into a fresh spreadsheet. It took a little while to figure out why this was happening.

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Force an email through

Every once in a while, emails get stuck in my webserver’s mail queue behind a backlog of spam. Here are a few useful commands from this article to push the legit mails that are hanging out in /var/spool/mqueue/:

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