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RCornish
A medieval, agrarian, libertarian, green-living, alpha-geek's view on the world…
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Kentucky Derby & Oaks Preview

Mephistos ― Wow, where as the year gone already? First we have almost no winter and then we follow that up with weather the last week or so that seems more like late June or even early July... And some time in the last four months I have obviously blinked and... (more)
Tags: Horses, Sports, bodemeister, derby, dullahan, grace hall
 RCornish ― Posted 23 days ago
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Ubuntu Beta Questionable, Mint Soon

Mephistos ― Linux has a couple of major releases coming out in the not so far off future and of course, being Ubuntu and Mint it has me a bit excited. The unfortunate thing of the matter is that the Ubuntu 12.04 release is supposed to launch on the 24th which... (more)
Tags: Computer, Tech, beta, beta 2, linux, LTS
 RCornish ― Posted on Apr 20th, 2012
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Writing Plans

Mephistos ― A bit of a new plan is in order, especially since of late I have had a little bit of lack of motivation in regards to blogging. To be fair though, work has had some killer days on a few occasions and there have been some horse and family times/issues... (more)
Tags: Life, blog, blogging, editor, miscrosoft office, ms office
 RCornish ― Posted on Apr 19th, 2012
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Pinterest, Digg Digg, ShareThis, & More…

Mephistos ― Being it is what I like to call Tech Friday, thought I would share some of what has been going on around here of late behind the scenes with the like of Digg Digg, Pinterest, and some experiments with ShareThis and Wibaya. (more)
Tags: Life, buffer app, bufferapp, digg, digg digg, Facebook
 RCornish ― Posted on Mar 30th, 2012
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Fine Wine, Cheap Vino, & Taste Perception

Mephistos ― Science has finally answered a question for me that I have had for years. As I am sure is know, I occasionally like a decent tasting wine, especially that is not at the extreme in dry, but just the same I am not overly fond of one that is really... (more)
Tags: Food, bottle, bourbon, cheap wine, expense, expensive wine
 RCornish ― Posted on Mar 6th, 2012
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Disqus, Livefyre, & Facebook

Mephistos ― Anyone who has been around here the last few months may have noticed, as I discussed back sometime last year I may go ahead with an install of Disqus and I did. I have been running that comment system for about the last five months. The biggest... (more)
Tags: Blogging, Social Media, Tech, blog, blogging, comment
 RCornish ― Posted on Mar 1st, 2012
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Open Letter to Ky Telco Credit Union

Mephistos ― I am writing to you to express my extreme dismay and utter disappointment in your organization that come about as of the recent letter I received from you. Your letter indicates that effective March 1st my account that I have with you will begin to... (more)
Tags: Frustrations, Life, McAfeed, bank fee, bank of america, banks
 RCornish ― Posted on Feb 14th, 2012
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Insight – to McAfee?

Mephistos ― Those who know and read know that it is an inside joke with some folks I know from McAfee that you just do not offer poor customer service to someone from the little spot in the road I did most of my growing up called McAfee or they will just take... (more)
Tags: Internet, McAfeed, Tech, cable, customer service, insight
 RCornish ― Posted on Feb 11th, 2012
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The Move

Mephistos ― Seems like it was just yesterday when we moved into the townhouse there by the large pond in the park that is named a lake... But time has moved by rather rapidly and after being there almost two years with much consideration the wife and I decided a... (more)
Tags: Life, commute, lease, Lexington, modern, moving
 RCornish ― Posted on Feb 4th, 2012
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Search Engine Warnings for Questionable Sites

Mephistos ― It is almost believable to be that some one is actually suggesting this kind of thinly veiled move toward censorship, but that is exactly what Evgeny Morozov is proposing. Morozov is a writer of a book and researcher that focuses on how the use of... (more)
Tags: Issues, My Beliefs, National Politics, Philosophy, climate change, Evgeny Morozov
 RCornish ― Posted on Feb 2nd, 2012
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Rehoming – Two Cats

Mephistos ― Long story short... we have two cats, that I like just fine and the wife absolutely loves. Actually there are three total, two of which showed up as strays and have been taken care of us for several months. We are getting ready to move and the... (more)
Tags: Internet, Tech, cats, craiglist.com, craigs, Craigslist
 RCornish ― Posted on Jan 31st, 2012
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SOPA & PIPA

Mephistos ― Most of you have probably already into some internet site today that is either completely unavailable to you or more likely been altered and redirecting you to information about SOPA and PIPA. Some of us that are very in tune with the technology... (more)
Tags: Issues, National Politics, Tech, blackout, censor, censorship
 RCornish ― Posted on Jan 18th, 2012
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Mint, Cinnamon, & Ubuntu

Mephistos ― I know, I last left you with the intent of posting on a more regular basis. But I think it was that afternoon, or more likely late that evening a long time tech friend got back to me about something I had said about my going through various Linux... (more)
Tags: Code, Computer, Tech, 11.10, Cinnamon, distribution
 RCornish ― Posted on Jan 16th, 2012
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New Year Blog Clean Up

Mephistos ― Spent a good part of the early morning hours going through things here on Mephistos doing some cleaning up and it made me realize a few things. The kinds of things I was cleaning up was primarily links to other sites and almost all of the things I... (more)
Tags: Blogging, Tech, blog roll, clean, clean-up, Facebook
 RCornish ― Posted on Jan 2nd, 2012
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Unity or Gnome 3?

Mephistos ― I have taken the advantage of the Christmas Holiday time, with some much-needed time away from deadlines and such at the office, to get back in touch with Linux. Actually, let me append to that, I had not left the Linux world, but rather, outside of... (more)
Tags: Computer, Tech, 11.10, centos, desktop, gmome
 RCornish ― Posted on Jan 1st, 2012

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