Archive for May, 2008

May 31 2008

The painless and quick WordPress upgrade

Published by The Fake Engineer at 5:35 pm under Blog Junk

In this post, I will show you how to upgrade WordPress very quickly. It’s possible to do the upgrade in 5 minutes flat. To make the upgrade as fast as possible, you need to already have the following:

The WordPress Database Backup plugin.
Shell access to your hosting account. <– This is why I switched my hosting [...]

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May 28 2008

What not to say to a bum

Published by The Fake Engineer at 11:43 pm under Stupid Stuff

The other day I was eating at a Chinese restaurant and as usual I got a fortune cookie with the check. After paying, I walked out with a fortune cookie in my hand and there was a bum sitting outside the restaurant with a coin cup.
Me: Uh, want a cookie?
Bum: Man, I’m starving. I [...]

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May 28 2008

TNX is making a run for 40 this morning

Published by The Fake Engineer at 10:24 am under Stocks

Also looks like XLF is is breaking below critical support at the $24.40-$24.50 level.?? If that cracks, it’s another $2 down.

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May 27 2008

Another way to burn time

Published by The Fake Engineer at 3:05 am under Research

I just burned half an hour playing Squares 2.

I need to go to bed. Playing squares 2 at 3 am in the morning isn’t the optimal thing to do. My reaction time is pretty lame right now.
UPDATE @ 10:16 pm on 5/27/2008:

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May 25 2008

The right way to burn time

Published by The Fake Engineer at 10:56 pm under Research

If you do not want to do research, there’s the right way of burning time and there’s the wrong way of burning time.
Here’s the right way…
I’m not going to do research, I should clean my apartment because if I can’t get any research done, at least my apartment will be clean.
Then after that, play Tribes [...]

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May 24 2008

Morale just went down the drain

Published by The Fake Engineer at 6:31 pm under Research

Last week I was feeling pretty good before my tapeout. How could I not? I extracted the parasitics of my power amplifier layout and in simulation it seemed to run great. After I taped out my power amplifier, I flew to Berkeley for a wedding and had a great time. I had [...]

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May 24 2008

Published by The Fake Engineer at 12:40 am under Politics

The title for this post is fitting.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/138456
Obama’s race may well explain his difficulty in winning over white voters. In the NEWSWEEK Poll, participants were asked to answer questions on a variety of race-related topics including racial preferences, interracial marriage, attitudes toward social welfare and general attitudes toward African-Americans. Respondents were grouped according to their answers [...]

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May 23 2008

Yeah it’s turning alright

Published by The Fake Engineer at 11:32 pm under Stocks

The rising edge is now firmly broken. Prophet charts’ built-in patern recognition software also sees it in the ETF. Pattern in question and price target area highlighted in green by me. The 1370 level on the S&P 500 is important for the following reasons: 1. 1370 has proven [...]

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May 22 2008

Thanks, Ben

Published by The Fake Engineer at 7:05 pm under Stocks

Oil is all your fault. You let the inflation genie out of the bottle.

You need to get your butt out there, raise the federal funds rate by 1% and crush these speculators. I am very tempted to load the boat with more QQQQ and IWM puts because $135 oil is disastrous to this economy.

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May 22 2008

Webhost changed to FastDomain

Published by The Fake Engineer at 12:37 am under Blog Junk

My blog’s webhost has just been changed from godaddy to FastDomain. I’m paying $3.95/month for two years. If you can see this post, the data is coming from FastDomain and not godaddy. Please let me know if there are any bugs with the site or any performance related issues.
Site performance should be slightly better than [...]

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