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The Human Race (10k Run) For Charity

Yesterday I participated in the Nike Human Race event, a 10k worldwide run to raise funds for several charities. The race took advantage of some pretty cool technology. They used their Nike+ sensor technology to be able to include people from all over the world in this race. I had a great time and have …

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Diversity Training!

I just received an email from my work that stated something similar to the following: Dear Jonathan Franzone, This e-mail will provide you with information on how to participate in Online Diversity Training. Every employee of XYZ Corp. is being asked to complete this online training program. To participate in this program, you will need… …

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Freaky Site is NOT Fedora

Ever been looking for the RedHat Fedora (Linux Distro) site and type in the wrong address? If not, then you probably haven’t run across this somewhat freaky site. The address is http://fedora.org and they must be used to the wrong hits, because there is a disclaimer that they do not have anything to do with …

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Win a $10,000 Office Makeover

Play Dell’s Synergistic Mission Critical Out-of-the-Box Sweepstakes for a chance to win some really cool tech gear and the main prize of a $10,000 office makeover. Just go on over to DELL.COM/smb/BuzzwordSweeps every day until September 3 (2008) and unscramble buzzwords. They are giving away a computer every day! plus other daily prizes. Once you …

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Google Search, Huh?

So I was doing some research on MySQL database security and wanted to do a quick search for two runtime configuration parameters. I did a search for –secure-auth and –old-passwords on google. Do you think I saw any results concerning MySQL database flags? Nope. I saw two hits. One was a YouTube video of Dr …

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