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Daily wtf Watson story: Active Directory
Posted by: pureessence on: October 1, 2011
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A coworker of my husband’s, let’s call him Watson, has some interesting ways of dealing with situations. As a system administrator, he has unique powers. Two days ago my husband received a support ticket regarding a temporary employee unable to log into her machine. My husband updated her password and verified and he could log [...]
My father’s Gui Lin experience
Posted by: pureessence on: July 24, 2011
- In: chinese | love n family | personal | rants
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Gui Lin (Chinese: 桂林; pinyin: Guìlín;) is a prefecture-level city in China, situated in the northeast of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on the west bank of the Li River. Its name means “forest of Sweet Osmanthus”, owing to the large number of fragrant Sweet Osmanthus trees located in the city. The city has long [...]
Grails: I will not use you
Posted by: pureessence on: June 8, 2011
- In: geeky | java | rants
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After the cijug presentation on Grails, I’ve decided I will not use it. I know Grails is hot and cool but I don’t like it. It’s probably just a personal preference. Why don’t I want to use Grails It’s built on spring and hibernate, so why not just use them directly? It’s just adding another [...]
jQuery UI even though you disappointed me, I still figured you out
Posted by: pureessence on: June 6, 2011
So I upgraded to jQuery UI version 1.8.2 at work and thought that I should instead of using the autocomplete plugin which is deprecated, switch over to use the jQuery UI build-in autocomplete widget. jQuery UI autocomplete widget is NOTHING like the original jQuery autocomplete plugin!!! At least by jQuery UI version 1.8.2 it’s not. [...]
AT&T rethink possible…to still use your service
Posted by: pureessence on: March 24, 2011
- In: personal | rants
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Tried to add a new line with AT&T was almost impossible. Got the new phone today and trying to activate it was unusually painful. Their online activation gave the error: ACT015: We cannot process your request at this moment due to insufficient data. Please contact Customer Care at 1-800-331-0500. On the phone with the first [...]
Hosting Drama
Posted by: pureessence on: December 12, 2009
- In: personal | rants
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Obviously I am nowhere near as actively on the whole personal web world as I used to be. Most of my sites are shut down. The only somewhat active site is this one. Amazingly I still get so much traffic that makes this site top the resource usage sites on the server. Today I got [...]
IE input background image issue
Posted by: pureessence on: February 28, 2008
- In: geeky | non php code | rants
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IE strikes AGAIN! Just when I thought I was 100% done with the revamp of New Millennium, I noticed an UI issue in IE. I’m surprised I didn’t notice this before. It shouldn’t be anything new. I did some google research but didn’t find anyone mentioning it either. Applying background image to input tags should [...]
dodo has been online for ten years
Posted by: pureessence on: January 4, 2008
- In: geeky | love n family | mixed | personal | photos | rants
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the other night i realized something amazing. i’ve been to the online world for ten years. i got my first modem at home when i was 16 and i’m turning 26 soon. TEN YEARS.. that’s a long time. a very significant part of a life. from 16 to 26, a person can change so much. [...]
The story behind Chinglish
Posted by: pureessence on: January 3, 2008
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A while ago I posted some photos of Chinglish. I found it amusing that some people thought they were fake and photoshopped. Well apparently I owe you an explanation. I was reading some of my favorite Chinese blogs today and found this particular entry. It talks in details where some of these translations came from. [...]
Wisconsin Dells Vacation
Posted by: pureessence on: September 2, 2007
- In: personal | photos | rants
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We have planned this vacation in May and we finally did it. Even with all the moving, selling & buying house, getting a new job and going back to school, we still made it. It was an awesome vacation. We stayed at the Wisconsin Dells area for six days five nights. Two at Chula Vista [...]
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