27 Feb
Driving a Beater (Car)
Some pros and cons of driving a beater car, using the “Field Car” as an example. Includes tips on turning a car into a beater, plus things to avoid with beaters, like trying to outrun the police.
Archive for February, 2008
25 Feb
Ghost Story gets Really Scary (when lawyers get involved)
A fellow writer on Associated Content by the name of Jennifer Eblin recently published a story entitled Staley Road: A Local Haunting. It has the makings of a great ghost story: a bleeding barn, satanic cults, lights and electrical systems malfunctioning - you know, things that make local legends like this one fun.
Jennifer is […]
22 Feb
WinRAR is better than WinZip
I first wrote this article as a submission to Helium’s Marketplace. It was not chosen, so my loss is your gain, as I’m posting it here in it’s entirety. Note that I received no compensation for this article, but since I was hoping WinRAR would choose to publish it, I can’t say it […]
06 Feb
Creating an Easy Lookup Table in a Shell Script
As a Configuration Manager, I’m always looking for ways to improve the automation of the builds and deployments of my company’s applications. We use scripts to compile the apps, replace certain token strings with environment-specific values, and copy the new executable code out to the production servers. Ideally, we should not have to […]
