Eengstro on December 8th, 2007

It seems that my Valve Steam account has been deleted. I can’t log in, and my account doesn’t show up in my friend’s accounts either. Further, the “retrieve lost account” functionality isn’t sending me a temporary password.
The last time I logged into Steam was on Wed Dec 5 to play Team Fortress 2, so [...]

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Eengstro on December 6th, 2007

The loser kid who shot up a mall in Omaha yesterday did so with an SKS rifle. Many of the press reports I’m seeing today are referring to this as an “assault rifle”. Repeat after me:
The SKS is not an assault rifle.
The SKS is not an assault rifle.
The SKS is not an assault rifle.
The SKS [...]

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Eengstro on December 6th, 2007

Putting up a “No Firearms Allowed” sign at the mall entrance doesn’t stop everyone from bringing guns inside — it only stops the law-abiding ones. Those law-abiding people are then left at the mercy of those who ignore the sign. This is so simple, so common-sense, yet the irony is that the left will use [...]

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Eengstro on December 6th, 2007

When I tried to log in to my blog this morning, I was blocked by the Bad Behavior plugin. To get into my website, I had to SSH into the host’s server and delete the Bad-Behavior directory from the wp-content/plugins directory in my WordPress installation. (Deleting a plugin’s files from the plugin directory is the [...]

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Eengstro on December 2nd, 2007

My installation of Norton Internet Security 2007 stopped working recently. The main dialog said that I had a “subscription problem”. This didn’t make a whole lot of sense, since I still have at least 6 months remaining on my Norton subscription.
As it turns out, I received an email from Symantec recently, advertising that the latest [...]

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