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	<title>The Lair of the Cubelodyte &#187; Geeking Out</title>
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	<description>The dronings of yet another IT worker. Dissatisfaction is guaranteed.</description>
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		<title>A Glimpse of the Future?</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2010/04/26/a-glimpse-of-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2010/04/26/a-glimpse-of-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was playing a round of TF2 CTF just half an hour ago as an Engineer, when suddenly I heard the achievement guitar riff play as I stepped onto my teleporter entrance. Startled, I looked down at the bottom of the screen to find that I&#8217;d gotten the achievement &#8220;Selfish Teleporter: Take your own teleporter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ClickToFlash</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/10/29/clicktoflash/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/10/29/clicktoflash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:51:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know those Flash banner ads? The ones that feature silhouettes of dancing girls hawking mortgage refinancing? Or popups that play audio? Or the classier but mildly bandwidth-hogging corporate videos? While I appreciate that advertising is paying for content creation, it doesn&#8217;t erase the fact that a lot of Flash content is really annoying- and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lather, Rinse, Repeat</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/10/01/lather-rinse-repeat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[K.C. Green, tellin&#8217; it like it is.

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		<title>A Dim Outlook</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/07/08/a-dim-outlook/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/07/08/a-dim-outlook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cubicle & Campus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geeking Out]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know about you, but it astounds me that you still have to set up an Exchange account through the Windows control panel instead of through Outlook. It&#8217;s not that it&#8217;s difficult, but it&#8217;s needlessly opaque, especially since users expect to go through Outlook, which is, after all, their mail application. I suppose I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery Malware</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/06/11/mystery-malware/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/06/11/mystery-malware/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeking Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minor Details]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the last few weeks I&#8217;ve been baffled by Safari complaining that this site was a malware host. The most puzzling aspect of the whole ordeal was that the Safari/Google malware warning referenced the IP address 74.222.134.170, and not 208.97.175.192, where it actually resides. A direct
Google malware query on the domain came back clean, too, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blink</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/04/21/blink/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/04/21/blink/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeking Out]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Web 2.0, HTML 5, and CSS 4 are all very well and good, but all these highfalutin newfangled languages all share one common, glaring failure: no explicit blink tag tag support. Similarly disappointing is the utter lack of any further development of this noble bit of markup&#8212;and &#60;blink&#62; has been around for something upwards of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>www.happybirth.day</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/03/13/wwwhappybirthday/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/03/13/wwwhappybirthday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeking Out]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One can quibble about the exact birthdate of the Web, but it is surely inarguable that today is the 20th anniversary of itsconception. The Web has brought us an unprecedented wealth of instant information and fantastic treasures like Amazon, Flickr, blogs, clever Flash animation, and YouTube. Of course, it&#8217;s also responsible for the proliferation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future Is Now</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/02/20/the-future-is-now/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/02/20/the-future-is-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first inclination, when I saw this 1969 &#8220;home computer system of the future&#8221; clip was to chuckle condescendingly about the quaint naivet&#233; that is the hallmark of yesteryear&#8217;s speculative boosterism. When I gave it more thought, though, I realized that it&#8217;s actually spot on; the archaic interface notwithstanding, that future is here. It took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CrossOver for Free</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/10/28/crossover-for-free/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/10/28/crossover-for-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you hadn&#8217;t heard already through Digg, Slashdot, or any one of a number of places that have probably been spewing the news for a while, CodeWeavers has put their money where their mouth was, and is giving away license codes for CrossOver since the President &#8220;met&#8221; their Lame Duck Challenge.
This offer is only good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dare To Be Stupid</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/10/09/dare-to-be-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/10/09/dare-to-be-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeking Out]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Being only casually interested in Weird Al&#8217;s parodic efforts, his song Dare to be Stupid had escaped my previous attention, but as a longtime Devo fan I&#8217;m glad someone pointed me to it. It&#8217;s said that Mark Mothersbaugh himself was ruefully envious of this song as having nailed right off the bat the sort of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visions of the Future</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/09/19/visions-of-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/09/19/visions-of-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geeking Out]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although I&#8217;m a huge sucker for post-apocalyptic fiction and hopelessly in love with the Fallout series, I was actually pretty skeptical about Fallout 3 after watching the initial teaser video released by Bethesda. 
Sure, it looked cool, but I felt the references to Nuka-Cola, the Corvega, and the BoS came off as rehashed instead of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cautious Optimism</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/09/10/cautious-optimism/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/09/10/cautious-optimism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeking Out]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cubelodyte.com/?p=581</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Large Hadron Collider worked just fine and didn&#8217;t destroy the Earth last night. But I admit it; having had no exposure to the theory of Hawking radiation before this morning, the specter of total annihilation had crossed my mind a few dozen times. There. I said it. I WAS WORRIED.
Of course, they just raced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MoodBlast</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/09/06/moodblast/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/09/06/moodblast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeking Out]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cubelodyte.com/?p=579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve got your Facebook page. You&#8217;ve got your Twitter account. You&#8217;ve got your IM client. You&#8217;ve got&#8230; all these places you&#8217;re expected to keep updated in order to maintain your social networking e-cred. But it&#8217;s a hassle to keep all these status messages in sync; let&#8217;s face it, most of these off-the-cuff status updates aren&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obscure Consequences</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/08/27/obscure-consequences/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/08/27/obscure-consequences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeking Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random Mutations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I was tasked with poking around various SMTP servers to see how they reacted to DSN requests (don&#8217;t ask why, because I can&#8217;t tell you, and the absurdity of the whole backstory is driving me nuts right now anyway).
Anyway, I noticed that alone of the free mail providers I fiddled with, only Microsoft threw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vista, Schmista</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/08/22/vista-schmista/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/08/22/vista-schmista/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Microsoft has hired Jerry Seinfeld as their pitchman. Some are surprised, but if you think about it, it follows the standard Microsoft business model: take something that was once cool and groundbreaking, but now past its prime, and use it to generate cash from folks who still think it&#8217;s relevant.
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		<title>Nawlz</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/07/15/nawlz/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/07/15/nawlz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geeking Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random Mutations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Webcomics are a dime a dozen these days, and basically exactly the same as print comics: static pictures, differing only in the method of distribution. This is not necessarily a bad thing, since there are some very talented artists and writers publishing through the Web, but what happens when a webcomic makes more use of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snooping Made Easy</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/06/25/snooping-made-easy/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/06/25/snooping-made-easy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geeking Out]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy enough to see machines that are on your segment of the network, and browse through any files they might be sharing. But these days machines do a lot more than simple file sharing. There&#8217;s no way, though, to tell at a glance if a machine is running ssh, sharing out its iPhoto library, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professionals Have Standards</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/06/19/professionals-have-standards/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/06/19/professionals-have-standards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t already heard, Valve released an update to Team Fortress 2 that adds new fun to what was perhaps already my favorite class, the Pyro. But more immediately amusing (and impressive) is their latest introductory video, &#8220;Meet the Sniper&#8221;.
I think it&#8217;s their best machinima to date, and shows that as good as Valve&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cruft</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/04/24/cruft/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/04/24/cruft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cubicle & Campus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geeking Out]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I found some outrageously obsolete documentation for our distributed authentication service. One of the major topics was making sure users have a browser that supports SSL. High-tech stuff!
According to this document, this is our official list of supported browsers applications:

Netscape Navigator (UNIX/Mac version 1.12 and later, Windows version 1.22 and later)
IBM Internet Connection Secure WebExplorer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iFlub</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/02/28/iflub/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/02/28/iflub/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lest you develop the impression from my last few posts, gentle reader, that I am a one-dimensional, Windows-hating Mac fanboy, rest assured that my reservoir of bile is nearly inexhaustible, and certainly sufficient to allow a liberal spew of disdain over all major contemporary operating systems and their associated applications.
Take, for example, iWeb. I&#8217;ve never [...]]]></description>
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