Last year, I wrote a post about things I wanted to do in 2008.

Lose 30 pounds (I’d be fine with losing 10 this year, but close enough!)

I lost 10, then gained back 5. 

One blog post per week - I tend to do more than that, but occasionally slip for more than 7 days [...]

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So Keith Elder has finally switched back to the “Apple is expensive” party line.  Keith and I had numerous “debates” about this topic years ago, and he was *always* quoting the Apple fan line that “spec for spec” Apples are not just competitive with regular PCs but *cheaper*.
I know Keith knows he believed it back [...]

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Tomorrow, Feb 14, is my 10th anniversary.  I’ve been married to my great wife Lesley for 10 years.  Today is really the last day of the 10th years we’ve been married - tomorrow starts year 11!  I’ve never done*anything* for 10 years except be alive. Never lived at any one address for 10 years - [...]

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As some of you know, my wife makes dollhouse miniature food.  She is, quite simply, one of the best in the world.  We attended the Philadelphia Miniaturia show this past weekend where she exhibited.   We had a great time catching up with some old friends and making some new ones, as usual.  I didn’t get [...]

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Groovy and Grails give you the power of the Java platform together with the flexibility and dynamism of a scripting language. Pick one of the many example projects in this book: at first you’ll scratch your head and ask, “where’s all the code?” Then you’ll smile as you realize that Groovy allows you to write [...]

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Ben Ramsey » Blog Archive » Microsoft Web Development Summit 2007
Ben’s part of a group of PHPers that have been invited to Microsoft to discuss PHP, MS, interoperability and other cool topics.  He’s meeting with some bigwigs like Scott Guthrie, which means MS is serious about this topic.  MS had a group of PHP [...]

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My friend MPS wrote today about a free UML tool he’s recently stumbled on - bouml. The couple big claims to fame I see are 1) cross platform and 2) low memory usage. I’ve gone with argouml a few times, but it always feels a bit clunky. I’m going to give this [...]

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Every time I try one of these online IQ tests, I feel like I’m getting dumber.  What did *you* get? 
http://simple-iq.com/

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Friend Joe Stump recently (as in today, I think) launched correlate.us, a feed aggregator which brings together your personal feeds from delicious, twitter, flickr and digg.  I believe more feed streams will be forthcoming, but for now it’s hitting some of the larger players.  In a nutshell, it’s a way to see not only tagged [...]

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A friend of mine at work recently opened a homemade dog treat operation.  She just had her first customer last night, and is mighty excited.  If you’re interested in fantastic dog treats, definitely check out The Health Mutt.  I’m not a dog, so I can’t vouch for the taste, but our boss’ dog apparently approves, [...]

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