January 6, 2005
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Age of the Franchise
I find it amusing how people constantly want to label things, but they so dislike being labeled themselves. Nonetheless, we like labels. Now we don't want anyone actually using them to specifically refer to us, but in a general sense, people love to classify things. How else do…
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It Makes Sense to Me
"We believe in communication. We're doing this because we think LiveJournal has something that's really strong with the community. We feel that that's one of things we are lacking." Mena Trott, in an interview about The Deal. I doubt anyone would argue that point with her. To be…
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Updating Auto-Increment in MySQL
I was playing with the database yesterday, and decided that some of my auto-incremented values (id numbers for particular tables, specifically Movable Type's PluginData) were simply getting too high….
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Narrator Trojan Headaches
Recently I encountered the Narrator trojan for the first time. This baby was really challenging to my nerves, as it used some techniques that I hadn't seen before. All the usual tricks of showing up in the Windows registry, or hiding out in the start menu were there,…