Weather forecast of downpours embedded in rain got you down? This is a sure fire way to change your mood. Best wedding entrance ever!!!!! http://bit.ly/mw4ha

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Now that's motherly love

So I’m watching this mother seagull on the rooftop across from my window, as I’ve been doing day in and day out since she built her nest. In the past two weeks it’s be rainging almost every day but I never see her get off that nest. It’s amazing, but I guess the kind of things mothers do all the time.

I was thinking that what happens when she has to stretch her legs or relieve herself? Does the father seagull (I see him hanging around sometimes, reading the sports page and such), take her place? Is that embarassing for the male seagull? Is it like the seagull equivalent of my wife asking me to hold her purse?

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A few months ago I fell for a fantastic rendering of the Periodic Table of Elements by Theo Gray for my kids to get them interested in science/chemistry.

Well it looks like Theo has a new book called “Theo Gray’s Mad Science“ Which sounds like it’s a whole load of fun. I’m off to buy some Titanium sheet I can anodize with a battery and a can of soda.

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Dear Random Company on Facebook Who Is Trying to Friend Me,

Call me a humanist, but I make it a habit of friending only people. (You’re actually not supposed to create a profile of a business or organization, but your secret’s safe with me.)

If any of your employees are on FB I’d be happy to be friends with them, and if you create a fan page you can count me among your fans.

Rich

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I have been experiencing problems with my 120GB iPod that I purchased about six months ago. It started a couple of months ago when in the middle of an audiobook it would skip ahead to the next audiobook, as if it had finished the first. Clicking back or going to the previous audiobook would just start the first book at the beginning.

More recently it started happening on songs, and got to the point where I was lucky if I got two songs in before it skipped or gave me a frozen Apple logo with a banded blue background.

Through iTunes I restored the iPod to the factory settings but the problems continued. I also drained the batteries completely and then fully recharged the iPod. Still, no change.

Since I life not too far from the Apple Store in the Maine Mall, and since I had business there anyway, I brought my iPod in. Turns out that the iTunes restore will only take you so far. You need to go into Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility and reformat the iPod from there.

Does it work? Well, I haven’t had the chance to reload my song collection and test it out, but hope to have an answer by tomorrow!

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When your sparkle evades your soul
I’ll be at your side to console
When your standing on the window ledge
I’ll talk you back from the edge
I will turn your tide
Be your shepard and your guide
When your lost in the deep and darkest place around
May my words walk you home safe and sound

I see you need me
I know you do

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Fresh off of a killer set in the first night of LebowskiFest, I give you…
Tragedy- The greatest Bee Gees All Metal Tribute Band in the NY Tri-State Area.

Seriously, though, these guys were extremely funny on stage. Think of a mash up of Iron Maiden, the Bee Gees and a healthy dose of Spinal Tap.Their renditions (how dare you think covers, you mere mortal) of How Deep Is your Love, Dancin’, and Staying Alive (featured here) were just killer.

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My co-workers are probably tired of listening to my bleating about a recent intermittent denial of service from Google related websites on my iMac. Sites affected include Google, Blogger and YouTube, possibly others. Service from these sites had become patchy and losing Google in particular was tough. Ask.com? Yahoo? Bah! It was like losing a ‘hyper limb’, a dead end in the information super highway, I was lost. Rebooting did nothing to help neither did renewing DHCP or manually setting an IP address.

After several fruitless forays into the annals of the internet, I finally came across the answer in a MetaFilter post this morning. Without being able to pinpoint the trigger ( I think it may have been a recent software update) the issue seemed to link back to the DNS server(s) set in my Network Preferences. I changed them to the two suggested in the article and Bingo! I was back in business.

So here’s the link to the article again lest this heinous affliction ever affect you, or anyone else. LINK

Also a quote from the post in case it gets lost in the mists of time:

“I see this problem all the time with people’s Macs at home. It’s most definitely a DNS issue. It is always solved by setting your DNS server to a known good DNS server, like 4.2.2.2. To do that, go to Apple menu>System Preferences>Network. Then select your Airport connection, click Configure, then look at the TCP/IP tab. Enter 4.2.2.2, hit enter, then enter 4.2.2.3 on the second line. Then click Apply Now. You may have to restart your web browser for the change to be evident.

I think this is less of a problem with a specific DNS provider and more of a problem with certain wireless routers’ ability to properly share correct DNS information with Macs…..“

Although I’m not using a wireless router it seems to have done the job. Choose your ethernet connection settings instead if you are on a wired network.

A

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