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Clearly, the sheer abundance of my loyal revjim.net readers and their eagerness to test this new commenting system has overloaded the poor monkeys that power the Disqus servers as the entire site now seems to be down.
This presents the first problem with a centralized comment system. As a result of the combination of Disqus now [...]

A centralized comment system takes the commonly seen discussion portions of a weblog, online journal, or other such device and offsets it to a centralized service. In other words, instead of using the comments built into Wordpress, Flickr, Tumblr, LiveJournal, or whatever other service you might use, that functionality gets offset to some other centralized [...]

In case you were waiting for it, Pownce no longer requires an invite to join. For some time, this has been a limiting factor toward wide spread adoption of this particular microblogging platform. Despite that, it has racked up quite a few impassioned users. Opening the doors will only bring it more success.
Microblogging — short [...]

Yes. That's right Google Calendar Now Syncs to Blackberry.
I've only synced once, but it works great! Even asked me if I wanted to clear out my current handheld calendar first so I didn't have to delete everything by hand.
Yes, this is big enough news to warrant it's own post. I've been waiting for this for [...]

Fatherhood is stressful and I'm not even there yet.
It seems as though, somehow, Jess managed to redirect that whole nesting instinct thing to me. So I've spent far too much sweat, time, money, and thought on various room remodels, redecorating attempts, carpentry projects, and general reorganization. I'm sure Jess was mumbling under her breath, when, [...]

Please stop sucking today. GMail opened up its IMAP access not to long ago and, really, I have no reason to continue using you whatsoever. But I am. For now. So please stop sucking.
Oh. And add IMAP access. K, Thx, Bye.

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Yes. Oh Yes. GMail has IMAP now.
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Ok… you can breathe again.

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I know that we thought long and hard about this already, and that it really took a lot of work for us to come to the decision we did but — I'm afraid we're going to have to rename our child — well, just her middle name, really.
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I hope that you will understand, though I [...]

After fiddling with EVMS for most of the night I finally managed to rearrange the drives and restore all of my data from the backup drive and still make it to bed at a moderately reasonably hour (though my wife was well asleep by then).
Except I forgot one thing: my backup software was still running.
Yes. [...]

I don't think today could get much worse.
On top of everything else, I got a bad disk. But I'm a good techno-weenie so I had a nice tasty backup nearby. I even had a spare disk in the closet. Unfortunately, Linux Volume Manager is not happy about the fact that I have a Physical Volume [...]