http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ en-us doug@shoutstudios.com 2007-08-27T07:36:29-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000396.html Trying to uninstall some third party controls so I can re-install them, and apparently it's going to take over 5 hours to uninstall! I know MS has issues with time estimating, but come on!... 396@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ UGH! 2007-08-27T07:36:29-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000381.html A career change for me? Not what I want, but apparently I now sell handbags on Ebay, 23 of them to be exact, with listing fees totaling $161.00! I checked my email this morning to discover 23 from Ebay that... 381@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ UGH! 2007-06-05T09:56:52-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000334.html I know we were under drought conditions a couple of months ago, but this much rain is just ridiculous! It's not the rain that I mind, it's the flooding basement and the lack of coffee/tea at work as a result... 334@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ UGH! 2006-06-27T11:26:05-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000280.html With the destruction from hurricane Katrina, the ongoing unrest in the middle east and most importantly, the inability to refine enough crude oil to meet the ever growing demand, gas prices jumped a total of 22 cents in the past... 280@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Politics 2005-08-31T09:02:48-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000279.html While trying to add the gnome-keyboard-applet to my gnome 2.8 panel, (in order to switch to Dvorak), I managed to stumble upon a problem I had a while back. For some reason, adding this applet causes the gnome-panel to crash,... 279@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Gentoo on my Dell 8200 2005-08-29T11:51:44-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000261.html Like many other people I know, I have become increasingly frustrated by all of the junk mail I receive on a regular basis. No, I'm not talking about email, I'm talking about mail through the postal service. This frustrates me... 261@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ UGH! 2005-06-02T15:25:11-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000237.html I've heard of petitions being passed around years ago as an experiment to show peoples willingness to jump on a band wagon and support any cause, even if the cause is unfounded and ludacris. I have to wonder if what... 237@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ UGH! 2005-03-08T09:11:45-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000232.html I finally bit the bullet and just went out and bought a D-Link DBT-120 bluetooth dongle since I was going to pay the same amount, if not more, trying to win one on e-bay, plus I would have to wait... 232@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ UGH! 2005-02-09T13:19:52-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000223.html This article just absolutely blows my mind! How can an organization that preaches tollerance and "love thy neighbor", be so hypocritic of their own teachings when it suits them? I have not seen the video in question, but I would... 223@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ UGH! 2005-01-21T13:33:10-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000221.html Lately, I have been hit with a lot of comment spam on my blog, and I'm quite frankly tired of it. I've been thinking of ways to alleviate the time spent cleaning all this up, but can't seem to come... 221@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ UGH! 2005-01-19T11:43:24-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000169.html Found an interesting article while doing my daily blog reads over at Leo's Blog over at Computerworld. Basically, the Justice department is refusing to hand over supposed public data (at least through the Fredom of Information Act), claiming that "implementing... 169@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ UGH! 2004-07-06T10:47:37-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000146.html Lately, I have not had any problems with spam comments on my blog, even though I am not using MT-Blacklist or anything else. That all changed this weekend. I guess my pages are finally being indexed by the search engines... 146@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ UGH! 2004-05-24T13:14:26-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000135.html Back in March, I got in a little accident, and now this past week I was finally able to get my car into the shop for it's repairs. Ok, so forget the fact that I had to wait 6 weeks... 135@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ UGH! 2004-04-29T11:19:01-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000109.html Well, I knew they were calling for snow today, but I don't think anyone expected what Mother Nature has brought us so far. They were calling for a total of about 6 inches in certain areas over a period of... 109@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ UGH! 2004-03-16T09:43:52-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000107.html I just spent the last 10 minutes cleaning up the comment spam on my blog! When I started, I had 120 comments, I now have 102! As if spam email isn't frustrating enough, now I have to watch my comments... 107@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ UGH! 2004-03-15T12:00:22-05:00