Movie review: Princess Mononoke (1997)

• November 15, 2006
• James Skemp

By far, one of the best films I've seen this year.

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Three reasons Microsoft Firefox is a hoax

• November 14, 2006
• James Skemp

Three reasons Microsoft Firefox is a hoax, in order of when I spotted them. 1) "it's better now ... like seriously ..." 2) Site Ground banner in the bottom left corner. 3) Create a better video, eh? Microsoft doesn't need to reuse the same video they used elsewhere. 4) Free email address?  How 90s/early 00s ... The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/14/ms_firefox/ Microsoft(R) Firefox | We've Made it Better

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ColdFusion MX 7 hosting, for free?

• November 12, 2006
• James Skemp

On this site, I have a number of articles discussing how to setup ColdFusion MX, both version 6.1 and version 7.0. These tutorials will get you up and running on your own computer, but there's no information on how to continue on to a real, live, host.

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Slight disturbance in StrivingLife.net and FramingBusiness.net

• November 11, 2006
• James Skemp

Due to a MySQL server going down, much of the content on StrivingLife.net and The Framing Business was unavailable yesterday and today. What saved me was this little command, since one of my tables was locked (Gavin got off lucky). REPAIR TABLE wp_posts use_frm

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Post election wrap-up

• November 8, 2006
• James Skemp

First, is good to see Doyle re-elected.  Related to this, thanks to Gavin for the information he provides on Green. Second, it's unfortunate that Wisconsin has decided to make a constitutional amendment to "provide that only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state and that a legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized in this state.

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Make sure you vote next Tuesday

• November 5, 2006
• James Skemp

Whatever you do on Tuesday, November 7, make sure that voting is one of them.

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Review: Outlaw Star: Vol. 1: Disc 1

• November 4, 2006
• James Skemp

Quick review. I liked Cowboy Bebop, and I believe this was recommended from Amazon (for those who like Cowboy Bebop). Instead of purchasing the complete collection of Outlaw Star, I decided to try out one of the discs, containing the first five episodes, from Netflix.

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Movie review: Gangs of New York (2002)

• November 1, 2006
• James Skemp

There's a lot (as in, more than you can count on two hands) of reasons not to visit New York ...

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Movie review: Yojimbo (1961)

• October 27, 2006
• James Skemp

The short review: another five star, classic, movie.

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It's time to grow up - Why IE 7 means we all win

• October 25, 2006
• James Skemp

Earlier today I ran across an article titled "IE7 vs. FireFox: Why Microsoft Lost the Battle," which stated at the end that "All in all, IE evolution is not impressive at all. It will still have one advantage though: after installing/reinstalling XP or Vista, IE7 will be the first and only browser used to download Opera, BonEcho or FireFox…" Unfortunately, this article, as well as the numerous other articles that state that Microsoft's IE 7 is 'too little, too late,' are way off base, which is quite the good thing.

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