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This Whole Terror Thing is Getting Ridiculous

by Matthew Smith · August 14th, 2006 · No Comments

Ok, so now we call people terrorists and arrest them for buying a bunch of cell phones. Oh, and then talk about becoming more invasive of personal privacy [via]. Sheesh, what is the world coming too? Seeing as how terrorism is intended to create terror, and we’re becoming more paranoid every day… well - who’s [...]

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Categories: Asides · General · Musings

Update: Search Engine Rankings

by Matthew Smith · August 7th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Since the initial post, I have been keeping an eye the on results of the Google searches and have noticed a few changes. The search of main interest (for the overall site) is for Matthew Smith, as this is the most common way for friends to find the site. After a few re-indexings, digivation.net now [...]

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Categories: Asides · General

AOL / Xdrive Planning to Offering Free Storage

by Matthew Smith · August 3rd, 2006 · No Comments

Hot off BetaNews, Xdrive (owned by AOL) is planning to offer 5 Gb of free online storage starting in September. Sounds like it’s time for Google to get a move on with their “gDrive” service.

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Categories: Asides · General

Origami?

by Matthew Smith · August 3rd, 2006 · No Comments

I ran across these nifty directions detailing the construction of an origami debit card holder. Kinda fun and simple way to spend a few minutes. Check it out! [via]

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Categories: Asides · General

Ubuntu - Essential Font Rendering Trick

by Matthew Smith · August 1st, 2006 · No Comments

Just a quick little post to inform you of an essential (in my opinion) patch for Ubuntu 6.06 font rendering system. If you are used to MS ClearType and have switched to Ubuntu only to be disappointed by font rendering, fear not. Using this simple fix, I think that my fonts look better than Windows [...]

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Categories: Asides · Linux

Server Trouble

by Matthew Smith · July 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

I apologize if you were unable to reach the site yesterday - it seems that my server was having a bit of trouble, apparently caused by a faulty motherboard. I’m up and running on fresh hardware, so all should be good now!

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Categories: Asides · Site Updates

Charles and Myself

by Matthew Smith · July 19th, 2006 · No Comments

Charles and Myself
Hosted on Zooomr

At a little gathering the other night, Charles decided to snap a few pictures. This is one of my favorites.
Edit: I was just thinking - Coke just got free advertising, right here on my blog…

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Categories: Asides · Journal

Filling Up My Zooomr

by Matthew Smith · July 19th, 2006 · No Comments

For those of you looking at Zooomr out of the corner of your eye (so to speak), let me invite you to check out my photo stream. I have been spent the evening uploading a few of the pictures on my laptop, but I won’t be able to upload the ones from my desktop, seeing [...]

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Categories: Asides · General