Steve’s Hacking Blog

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Well I was a little down over the tragic death of my Satellite A70, but I’m feeling much much better now. A week after putting up a craigslist ad looking for broken TV’s and laptops, I got contacted by a guy looking to sell his broken laptop. He figured, because it was broken it wasn’t worth anything. So he gave it to me for a very very good price. Think about the price of a really good mouse. He said there was a problem with the harddrive where the system wouldnt recognize the drive. It didnt spin up, it didnt make any noise, and that’s all that was wrong with it. Guess what…

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I was just about to log into facebook when, once again, a key on my keyboard jammed. In my frustration, I wailed on the keyboard as hard and fast as I could. In the url bar, though, I saw something strange.

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So I looked it up. It has happened before, to other people. Very very rarely. I dont know what it is or where it came from, but I can’t for the life of me get it to happen again.

Strange.

Hello everyone, sorry for the lack of updates during the holiday season. Obviously this isnt hackaday, I cant just update every damn day… and i’m all by myself on this.. anyway my host has been having some domain problems lately. Remember if stevediraddo.com doesnt work, try stevediraddo.110mb.com instead.

Now then, I’ve gotten many a cool gift this holiday season, and this post is about my thoughts and feelings about one of them in particular. So sit down and check out my thoughts on the Playstation 3.

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Over the years I’ve owned my share of cameras. I’ve snapped my share of pictures. I’ve eaten my share of tacos. Well, here are a few of my all-time favorites. From devices to food to people, these are the pics I can never let go of.

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