But before I waffle about the Litten Family Crest, let’s talk about this blog entry — a few years ago, I decided to start researching my family name “Litten”. I dug around on the interwebs, found lots of interesting stuff and lots of random guff, wrote most of this blog, then clicked SAVE AS DRAFT, […]
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IBM i , AS400 , iSeries , Life , Programming
I’m getting old — 50 earlier this year — and my eyesight is failing. Seriously, I bought some of those old man reading glasses from Walmart. You know the ones, the “old people” ones! 🙂 Five bucks for a little old Victorian style pair of readers that perch on the end of your nose and […]
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IBM i , AS400 , iSeries , Life , Programming , RPG , Software Change Management
When I was a lad – you read the newspaper for news, you talked to neighbors to network and find the local gossip, you watched TV or went to the Cinema for movies. Nowadays, it’s all done on computers and it’s us programmers that create, nurse and stroke this things called computer programs. How you […]
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Feb 2014 Update — If you are here looking for details on how to fix VPN failure after doing a Windows8.1 or Windows10 upgrade then use Windows Troubleshooter to Change the mode to Windows compatibility 1. Right click VPNUI in the Cisco install folder. (for example “C:\Program Files (x86)\Cisco\Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client\”) 2. Choose Troubleshoot compatibility. […]
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A mysterious energy has been unearthed by a team of scientists in Europe. The origin and purpose of this force is unknown, but some researchers believe it is influencing the way we think. We must control it or it will control us. This world around you is not what it seems. Our future is at stake, […]
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Peep show… peep show… bloody brilliant … nuff said  Arguably my favorite laugh-out-loud sitcom of all time. Peep Show is a British sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb and it filmed from the unusual ‘through-their-eyes’ point of view. You can also hear the thoughts of the person who’s eyes you are looking through. Saying […]
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Life , Drupal , Website , Wordpress
Wordle is an excellent website for a some serious lunchtime cyberloafing. It basically takes any string of text, parses it and creates a nice little word-cloud graphic with the most used words. Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently […]
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Life , Authority , Programming , Webservice , Website , Wordpress
Tinkering with one of my wordpress sites I noticed that Jetpack was unable to connect. The WordPress Jetpack Error says “Server unable to connect with my site http 404” which is nicely vague. Luckily, the excellent support guys over at ICDSOFT quickly gave me the solution: 1: Log into the control panel obviously your control […]
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IBM i , AS400 , iSeries , Life , Programming
Breaking news from a medieval insider at the IBM laboratory rochest’r, mn – in ‘rd’r to bett’r competeth with the growing competition from microsoft s’rv’rs, ibm plans to installeth a big r’d did reset button on the newly did announce pow’r systems and changeth all ibm i op’rating system ‘rr’r message text to readeth “gen’ral […]
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IBM i , AS400 , iSeries , Life , Programming
Discussing a data interchange process with a software vendor today (who shall remain nameless), they told me that their product could talk to an AS400 but had no experience of iSeries or IBM i…. *sigh* I am not telling you the company name because I don’t wan to to embarrass them in public… but if […]
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