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Wildfire – JENI – SBTRKT ft. Drake & Little Dragon

By gfisk | Published: 05/12/2013

Wildfire // JENI // SBTRKT ft. Drake & Little Dragon

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Brushy One String – Chicken in The Corn

By gfisk | Published: 05/12/2013

Chicken in the Corn (if you know what I mean)

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Daft Punk – Get Lucky // George Barnett cover

By gfisk | Published: 05/12/2013

Daft Punk – Get Lucky // George Barnett cover

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Dark Beer

By gfisk | Published: 05/05/2013

Stout, Imperial Stout, Java Stout… Samuel Smith’s Imperial Stout – Samuel Smith Old Brewery http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/113/782 Founders Imperial Stout http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1199/21822 Bells Java Stout http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/287/2010

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Keirin: Speed Racers

By gfisk | Published: 05/04/2013

Inside the High-Octane and Lucrative World of Japan’s Cycling Spectacle

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Kutiman – Thru Krakow

By gfisk | Published: 03/12/2013

Amazing stuff as always

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poMMo Survives!

By gfisk | Published: 03/12/2013

The excellent Mass Mail software poMMo has served me well on a couple of websites over the years. Unfortunately primary development ceased in 2008. That bit me recently when my web host moved to PHP 5.3 and poMMo started generating errors – set_magic_quotes_runtime() and Ajax errors. I was about to search for a replacement or even move to [...]

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Prince Live 2013

By gfisk | Published: 03/02/2013

Prince live on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon – 03/01/2013 Prince: Bambi Prince: Screwdriver

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Slow computer – steps to speed up your computer

By gfisk | Published: 03/02/2013

How can you speed up a slow computer? Below are some easy steps that can help return your computer to it’s original state. Clean the cooling system - This is the number one overlooked issue that affects speed. Depending where you live and the environment I would recommend cleaning your system 1-3 times a year. If [...]

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DNS Services – Vancouver, Wa – Scam

By gfisk | Published: 02/16/2013

Scam alert – DNS Services from Vancouver Wa. are sending out solicitations for business disguised as an invoice. Two small businesses I work with received the “invoice” and were fortunate enough to have questioned it’s legitimacy. DO NOT act on this invoice. You nor anyone related to your business, website or hosting company have requested [...]

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Bucky Halker v3.0

By gfisk | Published: 12/20/2012

Another rainy day website upgrade brought to you by strong coffee. Customized the standard WordPress Twenty Ten theme. Folksinger, writer, rocker, scholar, labor songster, alt-country twanger… http://www.buckyhalker.com

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Crack n Fail – Cannondale rebuild retro

By gfisk | Published: 12/19/2012

Broke my 4th Cannondale frame last spring. Sudden tire rub indicated I had broken spokes or a bent rim. I tried truing the wheel but suddenly noticed a gaping whole in the drive side chain stay. Hmmm I don’t think that’s supposed to be there! So naturally I went online looking for another Cannondale to [...]

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A Sunday In Hell

By gfisk | Published: 12/13/2012

Paris Roubaix is arguably the greatest one day cycling race in the world. Jørgen Leth captured the race, the riders and professional cycling itself in his 1976 classic A Sunday in Hell. Hard to come by these days here’s a great link to 3 version – streaming, AVI download and full DVD download. A Sunday [...]

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The Stick N Find – YouTube

By gfisk | Published: 12/03/2012

Sounds great – but where’s my phone? StickNFind Bluetooth Powered ultra small Location Stickers…you can stick on your stuff, and use your smartphone to find them.

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Memphis Slim & Sonny Boy Williamson

By gfisk | Published: 10/26/2012

Memphis Slim & Sonny Boy Williamson – Blues Legends live in Europe – Pure Gold

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Guatemalan Imports – Lucia’s Imports

By gfisk | Published: 10/14/2012

Rainy weekends hot coffee and CHIRP Radio, perfect for upgrading websites. Lucia’s Imports version 3.0 – upgraded the shopping cart to CubeCart 5.0, new custom skin, database whacking, complete rebuild… anyone needs Guatemalan wholesale imports ring up my cousin Teresa! http://www.luciasimports.com/

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Password Strength

By gfisk | Published: 10/13/2012

xkcd – “We’ve trained people to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to guess” – Word!

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Windows 7 Backup

By gfisk | Published: 09/07/2012

Looking for an alternative to the Windows 7 Backup and Restore utility? Me too. Backup and Restore is nice but limited. There’s no way to do incremental backups (add only new or changed files to the backup) and no matter what I try the backup just grows and grows and grows with my 220gig profile [...]

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Regex – Notepad++ – Outlook Junk Mail

By gfisk | Published: 08/30/2012

So I was pretty spam free at work for about 5 years, then I signed up for a VDI seminar. Boom, headshot. I was using Outlook to add all the spam to a Junk mail list but noticed much of it was from the same domain using various subdomains and addresses. I had hundreds of addresses blocked, [...]

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Index PST files – Windows 7

By gfisk | Published: 08/29/2012

You can search local Microsoft Exchange PST email archives easily from within Outlook but you may also want to include PST files in the results of a standard file system search. The following steps get it done quickly and easily in Outlook 2010 Professional Plus (similar steps for Outlook 2007) Confirm any PST file that you wish to search [...]

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Amazing young drummer – Senri Kawaguchi

By gfisk | Published: 07/27/2012

Gagaku heaven and earth and Kozo Suganuma drum contest by Senri Kawaguchi professional drummer playing demo “as the wind that the disease has” 1997 Born in Aichi Prefecture (1997).

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Paint.Net – Free Image and Photo editor

By gfisk | Published: 06/09/2012

Paint.Net is an excellent free image editing program for Windows. Released in 2004 as a school project the program has grown steadily over the years into an excellent mid-range image editing program supporting layers, effects, transparency and more. It’s what I use for creating documentation, basic web graphics and quick basic image editing. Perfect when [...]

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Internet Explorer – add domains to security zones using script

By gfisk | Published: 05/30/2012

How to add Trusted Sites and Intranet sites to Internet Explorer Security Zones in a managed environment with field and office computers. For individual computer users this can be achieved through the browsers options or Internet Options control panel. For multiple computers in a managed environment this can be achieved via Group Policy, Group Policy [...]

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Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod

By gfisk | Published: 05/17/2012

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SkyDrive – finally!

By gfisk | Published: 05/06/2012

Microsoft has rolled out a new SkyDrive Preview accessible on Windows, Mac and Mobile platforms with computer sharing, 25gb free storage and unlike past efforts in this space appears to be a solid, coherent, usable release (see past article Dear Microsoft – SkyDrive, Sync, Mesh… Seriously? ) Download the 4.6meg installer, setup an account or login with existing [...]

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BOY

By gfisk | Published: 04/15/2012

‘BOY,’ written by British Airways Great Britons winner Prasanna Puwanarajah is a moving short film starring actor Timothy Spall and was inspired by the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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Standing Start

By gfisk | Published: 04/15/2012

A unique insight into a champion’s adrenaline and drive as he trains for the Olympics. Maclean’s heroic cycling is set against the story of Odysseus, creating a heart-stoppingly rich portrayal of man.

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Windows 7 – install from USB drive

By gfisk | Published: 03/17/2012

Windows7 USB/DVD Tool - Unable to copy files

Install Windows 7 from a USB stick – easy right? Just download the Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool and follow the incredibly easy steps. Well that didn’t work for me and apparently quite a few others. Interesting as Microsoft was “forced” to make the tool publicly available after it was revealed Open Source code was used to create it. I would have [...]

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Ride to live

By gfisk | Published: 03/11/2012

http://imgbloga.tumblr.com/post/18660227940/yopla-john-brain-ride-to-live-make-it-what

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Windows 8 – Consumer Preview

By gfisk | Published: 03/07/2012

Who put the Child Proof cap on Windows 7? I Fired up the Windows 8 Consumer Preview via VirtualBox on a Mac Laptop. What can I say – this is first time I’ve not been impressed, excited, had fun, or stayed up late playing with a new Desktop or Server OS, ever. Looks like it would [...]

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Firefox ESR – Extended Support Release

By gfisk | Published: 02/26/2012

Mozilla has responded to their business, government and school user base by releasing Firefox ESR – Extended Support Release. Mozilla suffered heavy backlash from these groups when they adapted a new accelerated release plan spring of 2011 which moved the browser from version 3 to 9 in six months as opposed to the nine years [...]

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Baard Kolstad, the best drummer in Norway!

By gfisk | Published: 02/15/2012

Baard Kolstad, the best drummer in Norway!!!! – YouTube. http://www.facebook.com/BaardKolstadOfficial

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Dicken feat. Milah & Korben: “Everything Counts” – YouTube

By gfisk | Published: 01/30/2012

Depeche Mode – Everything Counts Dicken Schrader: 80′s keyboard, xylophone, kazoo, tambourine, Coke bottle and voice. Milah Schrader: Recorder, rattle, windchime and voice. Korben Schrader: Toy keyboard, maraca, cheese grater and voice. Music and lyrics by Martin L. Gore (Depeche Mode) via Dicken feat. Milah & Korben: “Everything Counts” – YouTube.

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Sixteen Horsepower – Hutterite Mile (live)

By gfisk | Published: 01/14/2012

16 Horsepower was an American alternative country music group based in Denver, Colorado. Their music often invoked religious imagery dealing with conflict, redemption, punishment, and guilt through David Eugene Edwards’s lyrics and the heavy use of traditional bluegrass, gospel, and Appalachian instrumentation cross-bred with rock.

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Whip My Hair – [Walk off the Earth] + The Johnstones – Willow Smith Parody

By gfisk | Published: 01/08/2012

The boys from The Johnstones and Walk off the Earth really Love Snares! So much so that they proceed to whip them back and forth! Subscribe to The Johnstones and Walk off the Earth Check out The Johnstones at: www.thejohnstonessex.com Check out Walk off the Earth at: www.walkofftheearth.com

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Phenomenal freestyler on drums

By gfisk | Published: 01/08/2012

Boy met during a trip to America …. a mix of technical genius and imagination … should abandon the streets and get serious! ++++ Ragazzo incontrato durante un viaggio in America….un mix di tecnica e fantasia geniale…dovrebbe abbandonare le strade e fare sul serio!!!

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The Perfect Athlete

By gfisk | Published: 01/04/2012

The Perfect Athlete from Duncan Elms on Vimeo. Australia is a land of champion athletes. But when it comes down to it, few of us have any idea about what it takes to produce a world-beating result… Kirk Docker deconstructs the machine that is Shane Perkins, Australia’s fastest track cyclist. Produced for the ‘Hungry Beast’ [...]

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Local Domain – Mac

By gfisk | Published: 12/22/2011

Setting up a private, internal or test network and have Mac clients? Do not use .LOCAL! I setup my Windows 2008 domain as .LOC – worked like a charm and my Mac clients were happy. Starting with Mac OS10.2 Macs use .local for Bonjour hostnames. Bonjour - http://www.apple.com/support/bonjour/ What is Bonjour? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_(software) Reference: Apple Support: Mac OS X: About [...]

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Linux Mint – PowerPC

By gfisk | Published: 12/22/2011

I don’t often do Linux, but when I do I choose Linux Mint – “The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use”. Which leads to what to do with a 20″ iMac PPC? Mint it! And man it couldn’t have [...]

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Judy Is A Punk – Ramones

By gfisk | Published: 12/21/2011

The Sullivan School kindergarten classes channeling Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee Ramone.

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Drum Lessons – Who needs stupid rudiments?!?! – Privates with Brad #7

By gfisk | Published: 12/20/2011

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A Conversation: Jerry Uelsmann and James Estrin – NYTimes.com

By gfisk | Published: 12/16/2011

Indiana University Graduate – Jerry Uelsmann, Before Photoshop allowed image makers to bend reality to their will with a single keystroke there was Jerry Uelsmann. He created surreal images the hard way — not with digital shortcuts, but working in a darkroom with seven enlargers and multiple negatives. Now that’s layers. via A Conversation: Jerry Uelsmann [...]

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MajorLazer.OriginalDon on Vimeo

By gfisk | Published: 12/16/2011

via MajorLazer.OriginalDon on Vimeo.

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Merge Data from two Databases – MySQL

By gfisk | Published: 12/15/2011

How you end up on Google querying ”Merge two Databases”… Like any good story that may be a long tale. I’m writing this because a CubeCart site I maintain was on a server that crashed and the host ran FSCK. The first clue things didn’t go quite as well for us as the host seemed [...]

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Why Cyclists Blow Through Stop Signs: It’s Physics

By gfisk | Published: 12/10/2011

About 30 years ago, residents on Toronto’s Palmerston Avenue were complaining about cars racing up and down the street, using it as a way to avoid the nearby busy arterial Bathurst Street. read the full story via Why Cyclists Blow Through Stop Signs: It’s Physics : TreeHugger.

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SCCM 2007 Native Mode – PKI Certificate

By gfisk | Published: 12/10/2011

Environment: Testing server for SCCM 2007 in Native mode on Server 2008. IIS, SQL Express 2005 SP2 and WSUS 3.0 already installed. Steps to setup PKI for Native mode Get some coffee, maybe a sandwich and set your phone to ignore all calls, follow step 3 like your life depended on it. Add Active Directory [...]

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Funk Groove 2 with Ludwig and Paiste

By gfisk | Published: 12/07/2011

Dan the Man from GrooveDrummin Funk Groove 2 with Ludwig and Paiste – YouTube.

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Playmobeat Drumtrio im Treptower Park

By gfisk | Published: 12/07/2011

via Playmobeat Drumtrio im Treptower Park – YouTube.

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Dreamweaver crashes when selecting code

By gfisk | Published: 12/03/2011

Running Dreamweaver CS3 on Windows 7 64bit I ran into the following issue in Code View with a specific file: placing the cursor anywhere in the code would cause Dreamweaver to instantly crash. The issue originated after adding a PHP while loop to generate a series of option values in a form. Remove the loop [...]

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