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Defining a Domestic Partner
I happen to work for a company that offers benefits to domestic partners. However, as this news article points out, defining what a domestic partner is can be tricky.
http://www.newsobserver.com/104/story/479600.html
Some of the difficulties mentioned here could be alleviated if same-gender marriage was allowed.
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Picture Of My Husband
I took pictures of Matt while testing out the equipment for Ed and Jon's photo shoot. Here is my favorite photo.
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Same-Gender Marriages Dispute
Matt sent me a link to an interesting commentary on gay marriage: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060814/pollitt. About half way down, Katha Pollitt begins her commentary on Judge Robert Smith of the New York State Court of Appeals' defense of the state's right to ban gay marriage on July 6, 2006 (the full 70 page opinion can be found at http://www. ( Read more... ) -
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Yesterday morning, Matt's van would not start. Dead battery, dead as a doornail, no warning light beforehand, nothing. Since it was late and I was working at home yesterday, I told him he could use my car, and we could look at the battery after work. So, last night he gets home and sees a lot of corrosion on the positive terminal and cleans that ( Read more... ) -
Holidays Are For ... Housework!
Memorial Day weekend has been pretty good so far. One of our big accomplishments was getting an outside light fixture and power outlet installed. Several weeks ago I had an electrician run a wire through my roof to the outside, and I finally got around to this project. Matt helped put together the fixture (standard, two spotlight job) and I ( Read more... ) -
Struts Upgrade - Validation-rules.xml - Solution
At the company where I work, we are upgrading our WebSphere servers from version 5 to 6. In the process, we are also updating our Java applications. Part of the application upgrades involve converting from Struts 1.1 to 1.2.8.
I have spent two days puzzled by the problem this caused with form bean validation. I was getting errors like this:
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Gay Men Cannot Donate Blood ... Still!
Ever since I was a senior in high school, I donated blood on a regular basis. I was familiar with the questions they asked and the things that could disqualify one from donating blood. At the age of 33 I decided to follow my gay instincts, knowing that blood donation was one of the things I was going to have to give up. It was the height of the ( Read more... ) -
Exporting Outlook Contacts Folders - Solution
A problem I have run across a couple of times, and have noticed that many others have is exporting Microsoft Outlook Contacts folders to a comma separated values (CSV) file. By default Outlook can only export one folder at a time. I have not found any software add-on yet that can do this either.
However, I have discovered by accident a way to do ( Read more... )
