Rod Stewart & Stevie Nicks – Heart and Soul Tour Concert

My wife and I had a great time last night at the Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks “Heart and Soul” 2012  concert in Washington, DC. Rod was a lively as ever and sounded amazing. Stevie Nicks was classic Stevie… a mystical creature with an angels voice. Below is a little video from both. Rod Stewart [...]

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How to Make a Bootable Mountain Lion Install Disk

Apple isn’t currently offering a USB or optical disc installer for Mountain Lion. The super simple “Lion Diskmaker” app has been updated to allow you to make a bootable USB or SD Card installer on a 8GB piece of media. The following steps will help you create your own Mountain Lion disk to use as [...]

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Connecticut Man Frees 17-Pound Lobster from Restaurant

Don MacKenzie of Niantic, Connecticut didn’t cure cancer or run into a burning building to save a child; he simply did the right thing! Mackenzie purchased the lobster, nicknamed “Lucky Larry” estimated to be around around 80-years-old from The Dock restaurant in Waterford. “It takes seven years for him to even become a lobster big enough [...]

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July 4th 2012 Fireworks (Finale)

July 4th 2012 Fireworks (Finale) from Sullys Rants

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Duplicate/Missing/Not Syncing – Safari Bookmark Madness

Blame it on iCloud! Seriously- blame it on iCloud. There have been many many many reports of bookmark madness occurring after users have edited, rearranged and/or deleted bookmarks from Safari. The following directions should help you get your bookmarks back in order. Warning! Please follow the directions below closely and make a backup before you [...]

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Why I’m Never Going to Australia

The image below is the proverbial nail in the coffin as far as a trip to Australia for me. That place is freakin crazy! Everything is poisonous and everything is trying to eat something else. Case in point… The photo below is a freakin spider eating a freakin snake while hanging from a freakin tree. [...]

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Create an Error Page to Handle all HTTP Errors with PHP

From the land of “why the hell didn’t I think of this sooner”… The following is a drop dead simple method to handling all HTTP error (403, 404, 500 etc.) pages with one single PHP file and a few tweaks to your htaccess. .htaccess Code The first step is to create/modify your .htaccess file. The [...]

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How to Replace Low Bit Rate Tracks with Higher Quality Tracks From itunes Match

iTunes Match gives subscribers access to 256kbps AAC versions of their audio files, even if they are at lower bitrates and regardless of – ahem – origin. To replace all of your lower-bitrate songs in your library with higher-quality files from iTunes Match, use a Smart Playlist to replaces only those songs that are lower [...]

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Stop SOPA/PIPA (PROTECT-IP)

Congress is about to pass internet censorship, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill – PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House – to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity. YES – These bills WILL affect how you use and view the [...]

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Automatically Update Your Copyright Notice Date

Every year some lonely web folks are wasting time updating the copyright dates on their various websites footers. Since we have jumped head first into 2012 lets start the year off right. The following will show you how to use PHP to automatically update your notice. Display Current Year Add Your Copyright Text I’m sure [...]

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