It was completely overcast in Haverhill so the eclipse was obscured. Ohwell. At least we had a Webcam to stare at.
Instead of heading up to the field in Amesbury to sit in the middle of a wet field on an overcast night we all sat down and watched Shrek and an episode of Real Sex.
The Hacker’s Diet, by John Walker, is the first weight loss system that I’ve tried that I fully understand and can completely wrap my brain around. The free ebook takes an engineering approach to weight loss and explains the ins and outs of the metabolism using the common sense theory that the human body is nothing more than a rubber bag: make sure less goes in than comes out and the rubber bag will get smaller.
Packed with tips for the lathargic office worker, The Hacker’s Diet shows that permanent weight loss can become a reality utilizing The Eat Watch, a software package for Palm OS that helps track weight and exercise trends.
There will be a lunar eclipse this evening starting around 9:00 PM EST. Kelly, Brian and myself will be heading up North and camping out in a rather large field for a few hours to check it out. Perhaps we’ll run into some other dirty Pagans.
It seems that I really have nothing to say. Everything worth saying has already been said. How utterly cliché.
It appears that OnlineNIC, a discount bulk domain registrar that caters to domain squatters, has been attacked and their Web servers are unavailable. We had to deal with them about a year ago to transfer a domain name away from a squatter in Korea and found their customer support extremely lacking. On top of that, even after successfully transferring the domain name away from them, they seem to think that we’re still a customer so we keep receiving promotional and maintenance emails from them.
I received the following maintenance email from them this morning informing me that their servers are under attack. It is unclear whether the attack is simply a denial of service attack or if their Web servers were actually compromised. Regardless, the request that OnlineNIC has made in the following email is absolutely outrageous. After informing me that their Web servers are under attack (I didn’t trust them before and I sure don’t trust them now that I know they may have been compromised), they want me to change my proxies to one of theirs.
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With the exception of the caffeine contained in the Xenadrine-EFX, I have completely eliminated caffeine from my diet. I haven’t had any Diet Coke or coffee for over a week now and have been feeling great! I’ve also been “forcing” myself to drink bottled water or sparkling water with lunch and that has really helped.
On a side note, the regular headaches I’d get a few times per week have stopped. I’d always thought that caffeine was the culprit but never made any attempt to do anything about it. Now that I’ve successfully eliminated extra caffeine intake, I haven’t had a headache in over a week!
It’s all good!
All of the strange side effects that I experienced over the first two days have almost completely subsided. No more dry mouth or extreme thirst. I’m no longer lightheaded. No more sleep deprivation caffeine-like high. My body feels like it’s more or less back to normal with the exception that I now have a lot more energy and still have a slight floaty feeling. And, most importantly, no more nausea (I took the Xenadrine-EFX about 30 minutes after eating this morning).
I did have trouble getting to sleep again last night. It always takes me a while to get to sleep, but the past few nights have taken longer than normal. Quite a few other people reported insomnia as a side effect for the first week or so. Overall, it doesn’t bother me that much because I still wake up completely rested and ready to attack the day.
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The silver bullet…
People are constantly saying that there is no magic weight loss drug because, if there were, it would be all over the news and there would be no such thing as obesity. I agree with that viewpoint completely but also believe that we should take advantage of every little thing that may help. I’d seen enough positive reviews and news reports about Xenadrine-EFX to consider using it so my wife and I have decided to give it a shot. She started a few days ago and I started yesterday.
After just three doses, I can safely say that it’s definitely doing something to my system. Because of my body size, I started with the suggested two pills with food in the morning and two pills with food in the afternoon.
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I’ve created a quick and dirty hack that allows LDAP authentication from within Faq-O-Matic. The hack is quite simple uses UIDs from an LDAP directory to authenticate instead of Faq-O-Matic specific email addresses.
This entry has nothing to do with the car; it is simply search engine fodder. I received a cold call on my mobile phone from the Domain Support Group trying to scam me into accepting information regarding “important changes to the Internet that effect my domain name”. These guys are simply trying to sell .info, .biz and .us extensions by pressuring .com owners with official sounding legalize.
They also have a bogus “support” page online that attempts to steal users’ logins and passwords for their legitimate domain provider. Fun fun.