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Silent But Nerdly

For a while I have been just too busy to sit down and kill some serious brain cells with an awesome video game. While I am partially responsible, I blame today's games, too. It seems like games today either involve paying to give myself a very expensive obsessive compulsive disorder (click the red button every second for 5 hours straight, then kill 10 rats, than bring me the rat skin hides after you have skinned them and clicked each one every 3 seconds for 1 1/2 hours straight, etc), or becoming part of a photo realistic murder simulator that leads to my  near instant death from hundreds of yards away by someone (prepubescent) who I never see. While admittedly there have been some amazing games written within the last 5 years, there has been an equal abundance of shitty games available for those who like bad video games from the 80's . So thanks to Xbox Live for releasing Sega Vintage Collection. I am playing Golden Axe and Street of Rage on a 60'' flat scree

Poochinski

Amazing. { SPECIAL POOCHINSKI UPDATE:   Due to the overwhelming contacts we have received about Poochinski, I have located the COMPLETE AND UNREDACTED pilot episode of this classic story of a cop, a dog, and another cop who is reincarnated inside the dog.} Check it out :

Bing Webmaster Tools and Blogger Sitemaps - "The Feed is Empty" Error Fixed

Blogging tips aren't really the focus of my website. However, I recently signed up for Bing's Webmaster Tools and encountered some difficulty in submitting the sitemap for my Blogger website, joshwieder.blogspot.com. It took me a bit of head banging before I figured out how to resolve it, thanks in no small part to the amount of guides on this issue that are just wrong on their face. So, for regular blog readers, this isn't as advanced as a lot of the articles here are, but it turned out to be such a nuisance and so ill-documented that I felt something had to be done . This guide will assume that you have already added your site to Bing Webmaster Tools and verified domain ownership, both of which work as advertised. At the time of this writing, Blogger primarily uses Atom 1.0 to publish site feeds - Blogger also relies on Atom for a dynamically generated sitemap. For Google's webmaster tools, I registered the following link, which populates an XML file that contains

On Alien Architects, Spam, and Sonny Chiba the Streetfighter

Seen some more link spam come my way. While I will save an intrepid investigation for later posts, I would like to share some of the keywords I've encountered in todays blast of pork transmission. It is my hope that alien archaeologists of the future uncover these terms thousands of years from now, and use them to imagine a much more colorful existence than was ever wrought by we, the baldest of primates. What is poetry, they will wonder, and what is it to do with kung fu and imaginary girl-criminals? Without further ado, today's glyphs: -The girls channeled their inner-criminal while making their way through a robbery scene -We bring Chin Closer. -Click to see the best Shaolin kung fu, the way they train, and their daily life in Shaolin Temple. This last bit reminded me of my recent viewing of Sonny Chiba's The Street Fighter. As my friends and coworkers know, I watch some disturbing and frequently godawful movies. I like to explain in long winded detail how Roge

The First Post on a "Social Network"

Remember BBS? Remember the Well? The first BBS was the Community Memory BBS, and its first post is printed in memoriam below (this was posted in 1973, nearly 40 years ago), entered via a teletype machine stored inside a cardboard box with holes cut out for your hands and stored in the back of a record store. The moniker used by the typist, Dr Benway, is a recurring character in the novels of William S Burroughs - leading some of us to believe (with good humor and high spirits) that since its inception, the network as social medium has always veered a bit subversively. From here we have gone to Twitter and Facebook users coordinating the overthrow of governments, in sudden paroxysms of sweeping change and violence. Perhaps there is a bit of that encoded somewhere in this early missive. ***** IEF XQPRSTQXL SYSPRINT OFFSET INTERRUPT ***** APPLIESTO: ALL BOOGIES, BEANERS, BOLOS & BOZOS ...... DOC BENWAY HERE .......... NURSE, SLIP ME ANOTHER AMPULE OF LAUDANUM ....

Event ID 1517 / 1524 in Windows Server 2003 Event Viewer - Server Login Requires Reboot

I recently worked on a Windows 2003 server that required manual reboots in order to login, whether via console or Remote Desktop. After rebooting, Event ID 1517 was logged repeatedly in Event Viewer (protip: this error could also appear as Event ID 1524 in Windows Server 2003, or as Event 1000 in Windows Server 2000). Microsoft explains this error in better detail than I can in KB article 944984 - essentially, user profile registry hives are kept in limbo after log off, and never completely terminated. Unfortunately, the hotfix described in the KB article didn't help. I don't administrate this server, I was just called in to fix the issue without breaking anything else. At this point, I know the administrator had an application in need of some coding assistance. I didn't have time to review every application's authentication behavior, though, and I am a novice developer at best. As an alternative to reviewing miles of code, I installed the User Profile Hive Cleanup S