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Hello, I’m New Here

What is this place? It seems familiar. It looks like a blog, but not. Kinda resembles an abandoned warehouse. Oh yes! … it’s my blog! I’ve been away too long, but sadly, I cannot stay. You see, there is this thing called Twitter. You might have heard of it. … instead of trying to be [...]
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ribbed.us for sale

For sale, this website, only $8,784. Well, no, not really. But check out Stimator, a pretty slick tool to place value on your website. I wouldn’t put any stock on the value it gives though.
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lol hax0rd?

One of my hosted domains got hacked over the week while I was in Las Vegas. It appears that instead of doing the regular defacement, the hacker not only left the site alone, it left spam pages in the domain. The only tell was my account using upwards of 1TB over a couple days. The [...]
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tweet ‘hello world’;

I hate writing. I have a blog. These are the facts. I do have a lot of thoughts though, so micro-blogging using Twitter might be the best thing and will let me send thoughts out into the cloud wherever I am using Twittelator on the iPhone. Check out my page on Twitter as well.
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Boobies this way –>

If you are here looking for the gallery … the gallery has remained the same, but is no longer linked from the front page. Head over to this address … http://ribbed.us/gallery/
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mmmm, WordPress 2.5

mmmm mmm good. I have upgraded to WordPress 2.5-RC1 and so far, I am loving it. The upgrade was painless … overwrite all the old WordPress files. Yeah, you heard me, I didn’t make a backup. I’m a real man. All the plugins, all of which were updated to their latest versions, all worked. The [...]
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Google Site Search

I just discovered Google Custom Search Engine … and I think it is perfect for my gallery site. The results of the search are very customizable. For example, instead of having everything in the domain searched, you can limit searches to within pages or via text-matching. Configuring custom search to only search “ribbed.us/*zen*” for example [...]
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