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Deck Damage

July 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments · General

A few weeks ago I had a little grilling mishap – several hours after eating the deck was glowing.  A small piece of charcoal had fallen out out of the bottom of the grill, bounced off the ash pan, and proceeded to smolder this hole all the way through the deck.

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You can file this under Oops.

May 29th, 2008 · 3 Comments · General

At work this morning we came across Adobe’s accidental moratorium on Trial Downloads:
Wow, pretty drastic.  The FAQ reads:
During the month of June 2008, certain product trials that are launched for the first time (regardless of when they were installed) will function for only one day instead of 30 days, due to an error in a [...]

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SJ-R.com

May 3rd, 2008 · 5 Comments · General

Did someone forget to renew the domain? Bueller? Bueller?
www.sj-r.com seems to be parked!

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Unsolicited Delivery

March 4th, 2008 · 6 Comments · General

Fedex stopped by my house this morning and dropped off 2 very large boxes and 2 small but heavy boxes, all with my name and address on them.  Hmmm, I didn’t order anything….
I opened them up and discovered two 3000VA, rack-mountable battery backups along with 110lbs of batteries for them.  Neat!
I called up the company, [...]

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