The premise is simple: find interesting dog photos online & create fake  “Lost Dog” posters.

A few points to note before continuing:

• None of these dogs are actually lost
• All of these dogs have happy, loving homes
• None of the photos have been manipulated
• No offense intended towards dogs used or their owners

Without further adieu… have you seen my dog?
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This morning I was trying to connect to a client videoconferencing codec via their data network and was doing a classic “ping” test to the IP address of the codec to test connectivity. I’m used to the standard “Request timed out” or “Network unreachable” errors, but this morning I experienced an error I’ve never seen in almost two decades of using ping: I experienced “General failure.”

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