11 miles done. not feeling great anymore but I see the light at the end of the tunnel

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10 miles done

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9 miles done. officially my longest run of the year. still going

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I'm 8 miles in and feeling pretty good

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Come on Saints, don't go out like this.

Holiday freelance work is not as bad as I thought. I almost missed working after being off for a week.

Metal Detecting. What a haul: can, pull tab, nail, washer, broken screw with nut.

Loving @SportsSturm 's ThisYearIsDifferent so much that I'm re-watching Mother'sDayMass.Stupid that the good ol days were 2 years ago

Of course game 6 in the 2010 finals is my favorite Mavs game, but when I think of the Mavs domination that year, I always think of game 4 in the Lakers series (Mother Day Massacre).

Troy ran 7.08 miles at Sam Houston Trail Park

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New Christmas books: Beatles A Hard Days Write, Mavs This Year is Diff, jQuery Cookbook. Can't wait to dig in.

Santa passed a little early!

If the ground can't cause a fumble then why the ground cause an incompletion?

Saints doing their Cowboys impersonation with all these penalties. Come on!

Big Cowboy fan, but bigger Saints fan. It's a confusing day for me.

Still up coding...just for the fun of it. Yes, it's a sickness.

BofA is down. The terrorist are winning apparently

BankofAmerica.com still down? I needs to see my monies.

Had a really bad day at work. I work with some really good people. From top down I am feeling support. Rare.

what's better than being in a band? Being in 3. Looking forward to all 3 in 13

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Digging jQuery Mobile. Even bought a book. Missed the print experience

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sqib kick! really?

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And now come the penalties

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Cboys looking pretty good so far, but no pressure on Ben.

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The 1969s are still going strong. We are booking for 2013 right now, so stay tuned!

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Congrats Rush, but the only award more bogus than Nobel Peace Prize is RockNRoll HOF. Both lost their cred many years ago

49th V show last night was fun. 1st time I've played my Tele live. Loved it. Sorry Mr. Casino

Put new strings on the Casino. It's ready to rock. Fri night at the Boiler Room is where it's happening.

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Last 49th V rehearsal last night. We are as ready as we're ever gonna be.

Whew. Thank god the boys won. They have achieved mediocrity at 6-6. But seriously, they are still in this.

Losing my voice. It doesn't hurt, no cold, not sick, but two gigs coming up and need my voice to work.

I love(d) my Droid Charge but so slow now. I'm doing a factory reset. Fingers crossed. I've added over 60 apps and use about 20.

Public restroom 3 step process: 1 saturate 2 scrub 3 buff

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Tired of hearing from Garrett that he's getting good effort from team.Hire me at RB. I'll give great effort and -12 yds per carry.

49th Vibration show on Dec 7 at Boiler Room, Dallas -- Damaged Faith show Dec 14 Boiler Room, Dallas--- it's on!

CLIENT Can I update my site myself? ME Yes CLIENT How do I do that? ME I would like to change my answer to the first question

For a moment I was worried the Cowboys weren't going to get their min 10 penalties

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Now this is bad ass - Ruin from OddBall Animation http://vimeo.com/38591304

1969s rehearsal: We are back in top form and ready to rock.

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Hey Eagles, hold much?

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Vilma!!! He's back baby. #WhoDat

#Timberwolves Barea, Kirilenko, Pekovic, Rubio are white, simply because they're not black. Using that logic, check out Spurs roster.

So if the Timberwolves are so white, I'm guessing they are considering players like Barea (PR), Kirilenko (RUS), Pekovic (Montenegro), Rubio (Spain), and Shred (RUS) white, simply because they are not black.

If that's the case, then the Spurs and very white also. They only have 5 black American born players. They have three French players, a Canadian, Virgin Islander, Argentinean  Australian  and a Brazilian.

That's only 5 of 14 players that are black. We have a serious race problem in this league I guess.

Going to try CurvyCorners again. CSS3 and IE just don't play nice.

Am I the only one that still (or ever) uses Adobe Air programs? I use Font Picker all the time for logo work.

Crab shrimp and scallops about to go in the gumbo pot. Bring on the Broncos.

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Come on Cowboys, Go for it!

Staycation Day 5: C'est tout fini. Last day was very relaxing. Killed some paper at the gun range.

Voted today. Went to two different places and lines were out the door. Not sure if that's a good or bad sign.

Staycation Day 4: Slept in a bit (awesome) but missed prime fishing weather as it turned windy, rainy, and cold. Caught 1 and paddled in as the temps dropped.

I ran a few errands and did a few things around the house, so besides fishing, I did accomplish a few things. 

I had a weird thing at rehearsal last night where my tuner and Robbie's tuner were not on the same page. Both our tuners showed our D strings were in tune, but they were clearly not the same not. WTF? I have a Planet Waves tuner pedal that seems to work well. Robbie is using one of those clip-on tuners. I'm not sure what brand. I have no idea who's is correct. I need to bring a pitch pipe next time and compare. I have a tuner on my phone, and another tuners, so maybe we can check on every tuner we have and see what the results are. We played the whole rehearsal out of tune. It was close, but it was  not right. 

Staycation Day 3 came with quite the scare. It ended really good with a kick-ass band rehearsal.

1st rehearsal with new drummer (Chad). Went well. Felt great. Good things to come!

Phase I
The original 49th Vibration band has turned over completely (besides me). It started out a few years back with me, April Samuels on drums, and David Harbour on bass. 

Harbour was the original architect as he was the driving force for getting a band together around my acoustic songs. He knew April and got us all together and it gelled from day one, which was very cool. The songs were instantly transformed and the whole thing felt really natural. We rehearsed for a long time before playing a hand full of gigs, and then things fizzled out.

Phase II
Things started back up when April kicked breast cancer's ass and started doing a lot of fun raisers for breast cancer research, so  she suggested we get together and do a few gigs to support the cause. Harbour was not interested in doing the shows, so I approached Robbie about playing bass, and he was in.

We played a couple of shows and they went well. We continued to rehearse (me, April, and Robbie) and had plans to continue on and play more shows, record, etc. 

Then, April was approached with an opportunity to play drums for the "Metal Shop" franchise. April jumped on board and her time was instantly filled, so there was no time left for 49th V.

Phase III
Now I am moving on with Robbie Wilson and Chad Litersky on drums. I'm not sure if we should keep the 49th Vibration title. It doesn't feel like the same band anymore, and it's not like I have any real brand awareness out there. I guess that's something we'll talk about soon.

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Day 2 of staycation: Got a few things accomplished, but not much. Mountain biking and gun range tomorrow.

No go on open mic, so I played my songs to two ducks at White Rock Lake. They were very polite and attentive.

I put a new set of strings on my Alvarez acoustic and was really digging the sound, so I decided to go to White Rock Coffee to play a few tunes at their open mic night. I've gone there before, but it was a few years ago. It was pretty cool and they have good coffee.

I showed up around 7:45 and they were supposed to start at 7, so I was surprised when no one was playing and I didn't see any P.A. or any other people with instruments. I asked at the counter and they were in fact still going to have an open mic night, so I bought a coffee and wend sit down and played on my phone.

About 20 minutes later a guy set up two small practice amps. He plugged his guitar into one and plugged a mic into the other. He started playing. The guy played and sang OK, but the sound was terrible. What happened to the P.A.? I know they used to have one at their open mic night. 

I decided that I didn't need any help sounding bad, so I left. I went to White Rock Lake and sat on one of the small piers and played a bunch of songs. It was really dark. I guess the rich folks that live along the lake don't allow a bunch of lights along the lake. It made for a really cool evening. Their was a nice breeze and not many people on the train, which was good. I didn't want an audience at this point.

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Just got WhiteRockCoffee 4 openMic. Only 1 name on list. Bad r Good?

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Staycation Day 1 went well. Lots of work around the house, errand running, and freelance work. I hope to have more fun today.

I made a to-do list and made it about half way through yesterday. I hope to know most of the rest out today, but also have some fun. It looks like some rain might be on the way, which will mess with my fishing and mountain biking plans.

Back in WordPress Hell. Permissions, permissions.

Been working in Visual Studio all week. I don't hate it, but it's a beast. Luckily I'm working with some .NET rock stars.

I think we just saw Sinbad in the airport.

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I think we just saw Sinbad in the airport.

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Working on snare part for new song. Pretty excited. Hope it comes out like it sounds in my head,

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Work, freelance work, bike ride, fishing, football...where do I start?

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Now it's up to you Dempster.

been out of the loop on Mountain Biking for a while, but Gary Fisher bikes are no more? I guess I have a collector's item now.

Don't look now but Brees is in his 12th season. Get him some help while it matters.

Work done for the night. Tele & Hot Rod Deville capping off my weekend that was filled with lots of work and little fun.

Works! Form adds data to Excel file and emails w file attached. Thank you Pear Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer!

Trying to write form data to an Excel spread sheet then send an email with the attached file. Very interesting. It's coming along nicely.

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What's messier for image rollovers? CSS hover/sprites, inline JS, jQuery? Haters try to shame me into not using inline JS. Shame on YOU.

AmpScripting my butt off this week.

Wrap this up J-Nat. #Rangers

Fun time at Rangers game last night, but I brought them terrible luck. Looks like they are bouncing back rather nicely today.

Using focus() in FireFox needs a delay? Why? Don't know, but it does - setTimeout(function(){form_field.focus()}, 10);

Troy ran 5.03 miles at Sam Houston Trail Park

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Not many more warm nights left 4 the geckos, but they r out en force right now

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I've done the MakeaWish100 Rally the last 3 years. Thought I'd check when it is this year. 2 weeks away! Yikes! I've trained 0 miles.

Anyone else get pissed when you see Ray Lewis in commercials with a cute kid who's asking him cute little questions, instead of...

Anyone else get pissed when you see Ray Lewis in commercials with a cute kid who's asking him cute little questions, instead of questions like, "Where is the suit you were wearing the night you are your boys killed Jacinth Baker and Richard Lollar?". Or "If you   weren't responsible for their murders, why did you settle with the families prior to their civil suits against you?", and "If you weren't guilty, why did you need to plea bargain to get the murder charges dismissed?", and "If you were guilty of lying to the police about the case, what were you lying about, and why? If you were not guilty of anything, you don't have anything to lie about."

Checking out Codeanyhwhere Chrome ext. Could be security issues, but works great. Quick and painless.

Using Chrome more and more. I Like.

#Rangers website headline says "John Hamilton wanted to play Thur...". Who's John Hamilton?

Went from meeting w Silverpop to meeting w ExactTarget. Issues! Both have pros, but cons are pretty big. What ESP do you use/like?

. I've used Silverpop for about 5+ years and used ExactTarget for a couple of years now. They both have pros and cons. From my perspective, which is mostly front end development, I think they both do some things really great, but neither do the same things really great and they both have their trouble spots.

I don't do anything with reports, APIs, etc. and not much with setting up automation, although I have done some. So others can speak on how well both platforms perform for those functions, but from and ease of setting up emails, lists, test, landing pages, etc. I have used both quite extensively.

The thing that is usually the biggest learning curve is now they handle dynamic content. Silverpop has a UI for creating conditional blocks of content. This makes it easy once you get your head around how it works, but isn't real intuitive in my opinion. But it doesn't make it much easier for a non programmer to create dynamic content, but that doesn't mean it's easy for a non-technical person. It can be, but by it's nature, it's a logic based syste I've seen many others (client service) people have a hard time understanding how it works.

ExactTarget, on the other hand, has a proprietary scripting language (AmpScript) that makes for a whole new world of possibilities. The language makes sense to programmers, but I've found it pretty painful to find script examples of some pretty basic things. But, once I found out how to do a few things, it made the next challenge that much easier, so I'm getting the hand of it.

One big stumbling block with Silverpop is the ability to nest dynamic content within dynamic content. We have successfully made it work, but they don't officially support it, and the UI does not make it easy to do it. I  have not tried it in AmpScript, but it seems like it would work. And with AmpScript, I can see the code and see what's actually going on. With SP the UI is writing code that we never see, so you're never quite sure what's going on behind the scenes.

Those are the only two I've used. I did a little freelance work in Constant Contact, but can't really compare it with enterprise ESPs like SP and ET. I also worked in Neolane very briefly, but can't really commit much on that. It was not browser based, so I didn't like that, but I shouldn't judge it by that. It might be really great.

Both Silverpop and ExactTarget have pretty good tech support, but we've had some very specific issues and it was hard to nail down the right person to get the right answers. We're still in the middle of a couple of those issues, so stay tuned.

Workout, football, freelance, new song to finish, new guitar to tweak - so much to do today and so little time.

Finally, they are releasing the complete 'Get A Life' series. Chris Elliot is so genius.

Strike, my arse.

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The great Archie Manning on the Ticket right now. #WhoDat

What a crazy cool site - http://www.audiotool.com/app

Teen killed in Campion Trail area. I run there at least twice a week. Really creepy going there now. http://shar.es/uqeak via @dallasnews

This smarty pants wrote a cool Gmail Subject Word Counter. http://tinyurl.com/8fjj8b9. I Tweet by email, so this is very helpful.

Even though I am by no stretch a jQuery beginner I always seem to learn something when I read intro tutorials. - http://jqfundamentals.com/chapter/jquery-basics

iSuckRadio is so failed. It works OK with no other apps running. TuneIN worked great, but now the Ticket is exclusive with iHeartSuck Radio. Why?

New "Louisiana Rub" flavor at Wingstop - two thumbs down. I do like their other wings though..

"Copyright Act, we have removed 5 result(s) from this page" - Is this not why Google was against SOPA/PIPA? Now they are voluntarily doing it anyway?

Lack of tackling, bad coverage, dropped balls, penalties, etc. Does coaching play this big of a role? #whodat

There are so many plays where receivers are wide open. Is that coaching? Are they not prepared? WTH? Brees looks pretty sharp, but the receivers are not getting open.

Saints are doing their Cowboys impersonation with the false starts. #whodat

Game updates to come. If you don't like/care about Saints football, this will be brutal. #whodat

You can't defend better, but Graham imposes his will on DBs. #whodat

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Let's do this Saints. Good luck to RG3, just not today.

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You ever have that layout nailed, floats are aligned just right, rounded corners working in IE7-8, etc, and then the server deletes all your work? Aaaarrrrgggggggg!

I know I'm supposed to love WordPress as a WebDev, but I seem to spend a lot of time poking around in there just to make simple updates.

Ever have a shirt you just can't let go of? It's so full of holes & held together by a few threads, but I still want to keep it. Why?

Troy ran 3.01 miles in 28:56 min at Golds Gym - http://www.endomondo.com/workouts/user/219791

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Cracklins, it's what's for dinner.

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Posted a few fishing pics. Not a bad day.

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Blacklist checker. Could be very useful - mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx

That's what I'm talkin about - #Rangers Harrison threw a 2-hit shut out in innings and Beltre hit for the cycle in 8-0 win over Min!

#LanceArmstrong gets stripped of titles and they go to #2, which in 99 was Alex Zülle, who was busted the prior year for doping. Why should he get the title?

#LanceArmstrong gets stripped of titles and they go to #2, which in 99 was Alex Zülle, who was busted the prior year for doping. Why should he get the title?

2000, 2001, 2003, #2 was Jan Ullrich. Yes, also busted.

2005 #2 was Ivan Basso - busted

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Pantera?

My Yahoo email account has been hacked.

Please do not click on any links in emails your receive from my Yahoo address ( troy92850@yahoo.com ).

My account was hacked. I have since changed my password and removed all of you from my contacts list.

You can contact me at this address (ttthib@gmail.com).

Saw a kick-ass Water Moccasin on the trail this afternoon. At least I think it was a Water Moccasin.

Updating Google Sitelinks causing some head scratching.-.htaccess redirects, etc.

I implemented a new site that replaced an existing site. The old site had pretty good Google placement and in the search results Google rendered 6 sitelinks. Unfortunatly, none of these pages still exist in the locations that these links point to. I could not find a way to update them in Google Webmaster tools. You can remove them (demote), but I did not see how you can edit them.

My knowledge on the subject is intermediate at best, but I know that the links being broken is terrible, but using simple PHP or META redirects--although better than broken--are bad Google practice. I believe Google will penalize for this. I knew I needed to redirect then links at the server level.

But first I used page-level redirects as a stop-gap since not matter what, I could not have the links broken.

Bring on .htacess.

My first try was to use a 301 redirect. This worked, except that I was redirecting from a directory to a file ( /contact/ >> http://blahblahblah.com/contact.php). The problem with this was that it did redirect, but it thought the new location was a directory and added a trailing slash, but broke all the URL paths in the page. The CSS didn't work, the images, didn't show up, etc. I tried to figure out a way to remove the trailing slash in the htaccess file, but I could never get it to work.

What did work was using RedirectMatch:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/contact/ http://blahblahblah.com/contact.php

The only catch was that one of the old links was in a sub, sub directory. That redirect didn't work correctly, as it redirected from the parent directory.

RedirectMatch 301 ^/contact/ http://blahblahblah.com/contact.php
RedirectMatch 301 ^/contact/sales/ http://blahblahblah.com/sales.php

The second redirect resolved to http://blahblahblah.com/contact.php.

My only thought is that when the htacess file sees the slash after contact it stops looking at that line and the first line handles the redirect.

I'm still working on that issue.

Dentist visit went well, but they always want to pull a tooth. Is it a profit deal?

Troy ran 2.15 miles at John F. Burke Nature Preserve. http://tinyurl.com/8gs3d6v

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Working on conference flyer. I don't do much print, but it's fun to do a little here and there.

Back from Leland MI. What a cool place. Dunes were breathtaking, Fishtown was charming, Weiss family farm was Rockwellian.

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