August 20, 2008 Some of you may have been greeted by a "500 internal server error" when you were accessing this site. Sorry about that. Somehow, my .htaccess file became corrupted.
Thanks to Mark at BlueHost for figuring it out and fixing it!
I was really impressed because I called them, and only had to wait for something like 3 seconds before I was able to talk to him.
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August 15, 2008 
I’m sure that all of you are familiar with George Orwell, and most of you have probably read his writing. I know that I read “Animal Farm” and “1984” in school, then again later.
Although the classics stick with me, I hadn’t really explored any of his other writings, but looking through the bibliography in the link above, I already see many things that I would like to read.
Britain’s “The Orwell Prize”, an award for political writing, is publishing George Orwell’s diaries, in blog format. The Website is The Orwell Diaries.
Besides the fact that it’s a look into the life of a great writer, one interesting aspect is that the diaries start on August 9th, 1938, and the blog was started on August 9th, 2008, exactly 70 years after the entries were written.
If you’re interested in reading more about the diaries, read the blog’s about page. I know I’m interested in reading the blog, and seeing what Orwell’s thoughts were. I hope you’ll join me.
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August 12, 2008 
Unless of course, you’re one of the final five.
If you listen to the Two Guys Tech podcast, then you know that one of the only shows I watch is BattleStar Galactica. Of course, I was surprised to see that we can look forward to a fourth and final season next year.
Having BattleStar on the brain, I decided to go with a BattleStar Wallpaper for this Week’s installment of Wallpaper Tuesday.
Clicking on the image will bring open up the full sized image, but you can also find it on the Downloads Section at SciFi Channel’s BattleStar Page. (It’s on the bottom right).
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August 11, 2008 
I ended up taking last Thursday and Friday off to go camping and 4-wheeling, I should be posting about that pretty soon, but I realized yesterday that I missed my weekly link post.
Not having the routine made it easy to forget. Sorry about that.
This week, I’m getting spun up to step into my role of Tiger Cub Den Leader for my Son’s Cub Scout Pack, so time may be a little short this week.
I really enjoyed doing the "A Year Ago" post. It let me what I was doing back then, and it highlighted how different things are this year. Of course, I can’t believe that all of that stuff was a year ago, it seems like only months.
1 Year Ago
On the personal side of things, I was having some trouble with the brakes on my CJ-7, and learned a valuable lesson in the process.
I also found a website that let’s you know where you’re favorite sites are hosted, as well as one to let you know who else is hosted on your shared hosting server.
I was also getting ready to switch my blog from the port16.com root to port16.com/blog. Something I wish I had done in the first place, but I was glad that I ended up doing it pretty early on.
I hope everyone has had a good weekend, I know I did.
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August 6, 2008 
The video above is Apocalyptica performing the Metallica song "Fight Fire with Fire". You have to check it out, even if your not a Metallica fan, just to see the crazy Cello action.
Last night, I was lucky enough to catch Apocalyptica at "The Black Sheep" here in Colorado Springs. Although I used to listen to Apocalptica quite a bit, about 10 years ago, for some reason I haven’t listened to them in awhile.
Luckily, their last album has two songs which received some playtime on the radio, making them much more popular with the mainstream.
Although I don’t have that CD yet, I believe the two popular songs are the only two songs with vocals on the entire disc.
I haven’t seen Apocalyptica before, but what a terrific show! The amount of bass that they produce is mind boggling, and to be honest, there were parts of the show where I fully expected the cellos to burst into flame. The band loved the crowd, and it was obvious that they enjoy playing for us.
I love heavy music, but I think that even if you didn’t, you still have to appreciate their ability and talent.
Thanks Apocalyptica! I hope you find your way back to Colorado again.
You can find tour dates on their website. They have a few more stops in August before going back overseas, but they’ll be back in the US in September through October.
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