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Every morning I wake up to the same sound of my alarm clock wrenching from my sleep. The same thing happened this morning, and after two unsuccessful attempts at going back to sleep, I walked out of my room and brushed my teeth. Then I went back to my room took off the clothes that I had slept in and put on the clothes that I was going to wear to school. Next I walked out my room and went to the computer to check my email, however on my way there I noticed the light. The evil green blinking light that means that there is a message on the answering machine… I slowly walked over to check the message and to my chagrin I found out that school was canceled AFTER I had gotten ready….

O well, at least I get to go back to sleep now.

BTW, Milken was closed because of its efforts in helping residents effected by this fire.

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Want to piss off your friends? Here is my list of the top five keyboard shortcuts to use on people. (these will only work on Windows computers)

1) Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow — This key-command will rotate your monitor 180 degrees, it can be very funny to watch someone go to login to a computer and find the screen facing the wrong direction. Unfortunately this will only work on computers with Intel graphics chipsets.

2) left ALT+left SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN — This shortcut will turn on the high contrast visibility setting on any given computer. This is a good way to confuse and piss of people.

3) Alt+F4 — This command is very well know and won’t always work, but if you can find a newbie doing something important having their program close on them can be very entertaining.

4) Windows Key+M — If Alt+F4 fails this command may still be able to do a similar job, instead of closing the active program this command minimizes all open programs.

5) Windows Key+ D then Alt+F4 then Enter — This can be very funny and get you seriously hurt, but it will do a good job of shutting down any version of windows.

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A few days ago I had a problem with gmail SMTP. Well as visitor Thad points out, it may have not been a problem with my computer after all, it seems like google forgot to renew their SSL certificate, which caused problems for people who were trying to send emails via google’s secure SMTP port.