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Googlex Revisited

http://www.skowronek.org/docs/googlex/index.htm

It appears speculations flying around about Google pulling it’s googlex labs page are true, thus I’ve decided to put an example of the slick and MACicized googlex page here.

Enjoy.

Googlex: MACicized

http://googlex.foxified.info/

A version of the Google homepage that resembled the Mac OS X UIT appeared at http://labs.google.com/googlex/ but was taken down less then 24 hours after it was first posted on Google’s blog.

Here is a screen grab of it in case this link dies.

Passed the Analyzing and Interpreting Literature CLEP Exam!

Yes, I did it. Months and months of procrastination and three nights of sleepless nights later and it’s now finally over. I actually thought I was going to fail the thing, but I ended up not doing so bad (according to my counselor.) Here’s the proof.

Jack in the Box Voicemail

http://scottrope.typepad.com/scott_rope/2005/02/jack_in_the_box.html

As this will already be stale for some of you I will spare the enthusiasm and get right to the point, this has to be one of the funniest voicemail messages I have ever heard. There are some questions whether or not it is legitimate, nevertheless it is hilarious and a must-hear.

On a recent Spurs trip, we were asking one of our sponsors who works at Jack in the Box some funny stories or experiences with the company. The funniest story he had was when an operations manager was late for a meeting and called his boss to tell him he was running late. As he was leaving the voice mail message, he witnessed an accident and went on to provide “play by play” of the incident. After telling us the story, he promised to send us a copy of the voice mail and here it is. This is the actual voice mail message. It was passed along and forwarded so many times within Jack in the Box; it crashed their voice mail server.

iPod Super – MAC + PC

http://www.command-tab.com/index.php/ipod-super/


As I have recently acquired an iPod Mini, I thought this was quite a cool little tutorial on how to add additional disk space…300G to be precise!

Cool little application launcher for Windows

Jon, one of the few MAC zealots at my place of employ, has a neat little application launcher for his dual-G5 called Quicksilver that I’ve been dieing to find for Windows. As it turns out, Quicksilver is only ‘made for MAC’. Well, I took the effort and found one that was close to it called AppRocket, and boy is it wonderful!

Hacked!

Well I guess I’ve learned my lesson (I hope) regarding open source software and maintaining versions. Especially ones that are so popular! Last week we were hacked. Since then I’ve patched my PHPBB version to the latest “stable” version. Hopefully (knock on wood), we’ll be somewhat safe. We did lose about 3 weeks of posts however, so I’ll be trying to remember what it was I had written about.

LAMPS Tutorial (reprint)

I decided to bring the LAMPS (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) installation tutorials to skowronek.org just in case the source versions are pulled for some reason. As I didn’t not actually write these, I take no credit or responsibility for their content.

I have relied on these tutorials for my Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) installations for the past couple of years. (For some reason I am always forgetting to do one thing or another.) I had thought I had lost the actual link to them that I had bookmarked, but was able to relocate the moved pages. So, to ensure that this never gets dropped (at least from my site) I’m creating a mirror of it.

As the I am not the original author, I take no credit nor do I take responsibility for them. I will host them for personal use and others who might need them as well.

LAMPS Tutorial 1.3
LAMPS Tutorial 2.0

http://lamps.efactory.de
http://lamps.efactory.de/e-lamps-2-0.php