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My house cleaners accidentally jumped my clock forward about two hours. Thus I woke up last week and thought it was much later than it actually is. Not a huge problem since I often work from home on Wednesdays, but last week doggles went to the vet in the morning ( Read more... )

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Friends will know I like the band James.  So much so that in 2001 I went to the UK to see them in concert.  I went to a total of three concerts:  one in Manchester, one two days later in Glasgow and then one the next day in London (where Eno came out on stage with ( Read more... )

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I intensely dislike Palin and here’s why. She’s entirely fake and the figure head for furthering the NeoCon way.

The fact that women voters are supposedly “flocking” to her and this the republican party makes me ill. Are women in this country that dumb as to vote ( Read more... )

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My father sent me this link today: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/MatchOMatic/fullpage?id=5542139

I’m not sure what the purpose was as we do not agree on the upcoming ( Read more... )

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For the last year I have been working as a build engineer and it’s a fairly low stress job. I do however find myself doing some fairly odd thins that most people would never consider or a few rough and ready geeks might dink around with as a “for fun” project.

I do ( Read more... )

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A few weeks ago I got a connection request from a person I was “involved” with once upon a time. I guess that is the best word to describe a sorted history which involved a one night stand followed by a short affair a few years later which was then followed by a lot ( Read more... )

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my wordpress installation demands that I approve ALL comments…even those from registered users.  what stick do I beat it with to make it stop?  I searched the support articles and came up empty.

Also, the inability to have check boxes for tags is annoying.  Makes it ( Read more... )

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I am trying out the WordPress app for the iPhone and am quite thankful that I have small fingers. It does not appear to want to rotate so I am stuck with the thin keyboard.

I am on my way to pick up my car as it has been at the dealer for the last two days having the ( Read more... )

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It’s been a while since I posted a mini-review of an RSS feed I read, so I thought I should write something.

Since I’m unable to pick one to write a glowing review of, I’ll cover two “tech” blogs by people considered by others to be noteworthy, but that I consider a ( Read more... )

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Last week my housemate came home and found some papers taped to the front gate. It seems the landlord had slipped on a few mortgage payments and the house we rent is now going on the auction block at the end of the month.

I spoke with the landlord who assured me “I’m ( Read more... )