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Your Breakthrough Hour

Posted on February 5, 2012 by vinhboy

Today I saw something on Sunday morning televangelist TV that I thought was just absolutely appalling. It was the “YOUR BREAKTHROUGH HOUR”. http://www.inspirationtoday.com/ministry/yourbreakthroug.aspx http://yourbreakthroughhour.com If you look at their website, you will notice that they are soliciting a donation, or … Continue reading →

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housing price and income

Posted on January 27, 2012 by vinhboy

Heard something interesting on Forum today. Warning: this has not been fact checked, but just noting it here for future reference. Texas has more public employees than California But has a smaller public budget than California Because they pay their … Continue reading →

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Exim4 – send all frozen messages

Posted on January 20, 2012 by vinhboy

exim -bp | grep frozen | awk ‘{print $3}’ | xargs exim -v -M

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How to make the sign in page the root page on devise

Posted on January 15, 2012 by vinhboy

You can’t just use root :to => ‘devise/session#new’ because you will get this Could not find devise mapping for path “/” So you have to do this devise_for :users do root :to => ‘dashboard#index’, :constraints => lambda {|r| r.env["warden"].authenticate? } … Continue reading →

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America: The land of plenty… garbage.

Posted on January 13, 2012 by vinhboy

When I walk our dog around the block, I notice that 4 out of 5 garages are full with stuff. I rarely see a garage with space for cars. And when I say full, I don’t mean things taking up … Continue reading →

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How two whitespaces ruined my life.

Posted on December 21, 2011 by vinhboy

Ok. I literally just spent 6pm since last night, until 12pm today debugging (minus 5 hrs of sleep) because of two whitespaces. I am setting up a server, and I had to copy one line of configuration.   signup_flag_on: true I … Continue reading →

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Fuck you apparmor!!!

Posted on December 20, 2011 by vinhboy

That’s 5 hours of my life I will never get back. http://paikialog.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/how-to-properly-move-mysql-datadir-to-a-new-folder/

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costs the taxpayer

Posted on December 19, 2011 by vinhboy

On the local news, they are constantly reminding us how much it “costs the taxpayer”. Raids of the occupy protests, costs of building roads, prisons, social programs, court fees, etc… To be fair, maybe they should also remind viewers how … Continue reading →

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Eating rice noodles give me a stomach ache

Posted on December 7, 2011 by vinhboy

Eating rice noodles give me a stomach ache. Not poo in your pants stomachache. Knot in your stomach kind. Anyone else ever had this problem?

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The selfish liberal

Posted on December 5, 2011 by vinhboy

The other day a friend called me a “bleeding heart liberal”. But honestly, there is nothing “bleeding heart” about my progressive stance. In fact, most of my motivation are pretty selfish Universal Health Care – Sure, I support universal health … Continue reading →

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