Don’t look down: Terrifying view from glass box balcony jutting out from skyscraper’s 103rd floor | Mail Online

This is exactly what I would expect PJ to do. I can’t even visualize myself peeking at that balcony from within the building.

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There, I Fixed It. » And People Ask Why I’m Scared To Fly?

True story:

Back in my US Army enlistment days (early to mid 90’s) I learned that we didn’t have silver duct tape. What we had was green duct tape, universally called “100 miles an hour tape.”

It was used on everything, and it worked every damn time. I bet that plane didn’t have trouble with that piece of tape until it was eventually fixed, or maybe they just painted over it and it is still around.

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Protect Your WordPress WP-Config So You Don’t Get Hacked | Devlounge: This was less than five minutes worth of work, not complicated at all.

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Francisco “Paquito” Cordero has passed away at 77. : I am sad to learn that Paquito Cordero, a pioneer of Puerto Rican television, died today. He was 77. He was a cultural treasure to the Commonwealth, a genuinely funny guy that had a 50+ year career both acting in, and producing television shows that were watched by pretty much everyone in the island.

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Please go to /wp-content/ and search each of your theme folders for a file called lol.php. If you find such a file, you have been compromised, either you got hacked already, or you are about to.

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If you are one of my regular readers at veraperez.com, my wordpress install, which was brand new, was compromised sometime after 1 AM EDT today. The issue seems to be fixed, but it is one more nail in the wordpress coffin for all I can care. The attack originated in Kuwait (you’re welcome for Gulf War 1, assholes).

Please consider changing your bookmark to either http://insomniaccoder.com/ or to my friendfeed at http://friendfeed.com/pvera since I don’t ever post to veraperez.com directly, all of the content that you are seeing is being automatically posted as a mirror of insomniaccoder.com. Also, IC runs on Tumblr, which so far has done a stellar job in keeping the platform secure.

I am not shutting veraperez.com down any time soon, but like I said, please consider moving your bookmark. Also, the friendfeed is a great choice because it blends into one location all of my RSS feeds, so you can read my blogs and twitters at one spot.

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karlaakins:

Statute of Liberty in Iran  via 9gag

“Deep packet *this*”

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Tiny Dog Has Been Barking Nonstop For 6 Years

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Court rules for white firefighters over promotions:

Maybe they need to learn how to do blind promotion boards, it is not so complicated:

1. Anyone that is qualified (education, time on the job, things that can be measured objectively) takes an exam, which could be written, oral or both.
2. Once you have a list of qualified personnel, pick the top X spots, which are the number of promotions you have to award.
3. Have a panel review the personnel records of each of these top X candidates, except with things like race, sex, religion, etc. removed. If the panel sees a problem with one of these, then move down the list while keeping the same rules.

The end result is that the selection process is fair, yet you are still reassured that there is a manual review so people don’t get promoted automatically simply because they can cram for a test.

And there is no room for discrimmination arguments later. The criteria for being allowed to take the test is objective, and the record reviews are blind.

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Have had this song stuck in my head since Michael died.

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