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OK, I think I know at least one condition where I will join all the other parents sitting in their cars with their kids at the end of the driveway waiting for the bus:

3°F with -17°F wind-chill.Damn that's cold. We had a 90 min. delayed opening today due to last night's snow. We got ~5" here in Glastonbury: one of my guys who lives in Orange ( ( Read more... )

I am restarting work on enhancements to our asset tracking system after a hiatus of at least a year (on account of the job). I thought that I should do a stare-and-compare between the database schema on the production box vs. the development box before I refreshed the dev database from prod. I almost didn't Good thing I did.

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I am not an apologist for George Zimmerman. Given the pattern of burglaries in his neighborhood, the man was justifiably suspicious of Trayvon Martin (and that is the subject of this post). BUT he made an utterly bone-headed decision when he disobeyed the Police dispatcher's instructions and started following young Mr. Martin on foot, thereby ( Read more... )

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Riddle me this my good readers: why, after 18 years of precedent, did Microsoft decide that the Office apps must have their own color schemes, and must not follow the Windows system colors ( Read more... )

An old friend and colleague of mine from Ensign Bickford sent me an email this morning. He still works for what's left of the company (Ensign Bickford Aerospace & Defense ... Dyno Nobel owns the rest now.)

Any way, the email was titled "end of an era" and had this picture attached.


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After a week off, here's where it all went...

Planned activities

Clean the office
Not even close

Clean the garage
Done!!

Clean up workbench

Mow medians

Haircut

Finish Heather's table
Um, no

Goof off
Plenty!

Visit Harkness park

Start work on upstairs bath

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