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Merged!

Posted in September 28th, 2007
Published in General

It’s official. Looks like the Brooks Stevens and Ingenium merger has officially gone through. Look for the press release in your Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Friday or Sunday.
This means it’s I.T. crunch time. The next three months will be painfully busy and fun (I hope!).
~Jaker

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Losing More Decent Radio

Posted in September 14th, 2007
Published in General

Back in the day when I lived in Green Bay, I felt fortunate that Green Bay still had some decent radio. I remember the first night I moved in, I spent time scanning the airwaves finding a station that played good music. I started at 102.1 and went up. I kept going until I reached [...]

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This Day in History

Posted in September 14th, 2007
Published in General

Seven years ago today, Microsoft released Windows ME.
Micrsoft declined to comment for this article, but I’m pretty sure it would go like this:
 ”Seven years ago? Oh. Sorry about that.”
~Jaker

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The Ultimate Steal

Posted in September 13th, 2007
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Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate edition costs most people a cool $399. Why so costly? It includes everything: Access, Accounting Express, Excel, InfoPath, Groove, OneNote, Outlook with Business Contact Manager, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Word.
Wait, did you say you’re a student? You have a valid *.edu e-mail address? You have at least a 0.5 credit course load?
Good [...]

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MCWE: Another Update

Posted in September 10th, 2007
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I realize a long long long time ago I said I was working on a web interface project for my Media Center (and yes, I was even toying around with the idea long before I even made that post).
I did, but I didn’t get very far. Mostly caused by a lack of interest in coding at the [...]

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We’re Back!

Posted in September 10th, 2007
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All you need to know is this:
There are two types of people in the world: those who have backups, and those who will.
I accidentally skillfully deleted my database for the blog, but fortunately recovered it. Three cheers for Dreamhost customer service!
~Jaker

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