The guys at worked pitched in and got me a custom-designed cake.  This pretty much summed up my 22 months here.  <voice=”dr_nick”>Thanks, everybody!</voice>
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This article explains the whole thing in more detail, but the first line says it all:
When it comes to vacation, Netflix has a simple policy: take as much as you’d like. Just make sure your work is done.
Wow.  Quite a forward thinking company, imo.  Or perhaps this policy will be shown to be the [...]

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Came across this site and thought I’d share it with you all… 
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There was a lot of hoo-ha last week about Circuit City laying off 3400 employees.  I found a local paper from EMU had a story about it as well, which gives a SE Michigan perspective ($10 is a ‘living wage’ in Ann Arbor, apparently).  And this morning driving back from Chicago there was a radio [...]

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Slashdot has an article about this article, which was related to a documentary  I saw last night (it was British, I think from the BBC).  I’ve never been comfortable with the current dogma that humans are causing climate change.  At the very least, our ability to make such huge impact in such a short time [...]

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http://videoeta.com/news/2236 has the full pictures, but this has got to be some of the best DVD packaging I’ve ever seen.  We just got the disc through netflix, and my wife came upstairs and said “we got a pirated copy!”  She was afraid we’d be blamed for keeping the original and sending back a cheap copy.  [...]

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President Bush is visiting, of all places, Franklinton, NC, today.  I live in Youngsville, NC, which is directly south of Franklinton.  I occasionally go up there for some of my shopping, although we generally head south.  There’s a Food Lion in either direction, about equidistant, so there’s no advantage going to Wake Forest or Franklinton.  [...]

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Alfred’s a friend from a way back in Michigan (well, perhaps just a few years ago) who’s also in to open source technology, and overall a sharp guy.  He interviewed me for a podcast he produces, and it’s finally ‘up’ for listening.  We chatted some time ago - September I think, so I’d nearly forgotten [...]

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I’ve been reading “The Singularity Is Near” by Kurzweil.  Quite a hefty book!  Those of you who’ve read it can probably tell by my title here that I’m only about 20% through the book!  Anyway, the idea of ‘reversible computing‘ is pretty intriguing.  The core idea, as I got from the book, is that energy [...]

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I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one who’s trying to bring back the $2 bill.
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