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Kick the tires over at Planet Sean

February 18th, 2008 by Sean

The new design is finally up over at PlanetSean.com so when you get a moment, go kick the tires and see if you find anything broken and be sure to let me know. Thanks.

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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday February 2008

February 12th, 2008 by Sean

Today Microsoft released 11 Security Bulletins that address 17 potential vulnerabilities.

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eBay auctions are fun

February 11th, 2008 by Sean

Shopping on eBay can be a lot of fun, except when someone outbids you in the last 10 seconds of an auction.

Dirty pig dog bastards :)

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BlackBerry Curve 8310 With GPS

February 8th, 2008 by Sean

After many years of using my BlackBerry 8700, tonight I upgraded to a new BlackBerry Curve 8310.

It’s sexy. I think this is the first time I’ve called a mobile phone sexy. I went with the Titanium version.

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Funny eBay auction question

February 8th, 2008 by Sean

Last night I received the following question for one of my eBay auctions:

i was wondering, can you ship this item to me if i am on the moon when the auction is over? thanks

My reply: “if you have a zip/postal code for the moon and UPS or USPS can deliver to it, then sure. I don’t see why not.”

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Firefox 2.0.0.12 Released

February 7th, 2008 by Sean

This evening Mozilla released Firefox version 2.0.0.12 which is a security and bug fix release. Anyone using Firefox should update to this latest release.

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Have you got anything without spam?

February 7th, 2008 by Sean

At approximately 10:06 PM last night GeekWithSocialSkills.com had it’s first spam comment!

My question is this, could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?

Monty Python is awesome. Spam is not.

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Skype 3.6.0.248 for Windows Released

February 6th, 2008 by Sean

Earlier this morning the Skype development team released version 3.6.0.248 for Windows. Installed and works just fine.

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