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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I just found out today that I’ll be in the UK next week.  London, as far as I know right now.  I’m looking to swing an extra day to myself there, which would be next Saturday, November 10.  If there are any area PHP or webdev groups going on, please give me a holler.  If [...]

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Some of you who know me know that I can cry at the drop of a hat if the appropriate music is playing.  I’d mentioned it to colleagues before, but I’m not sure they believed it until I went to a movie with one of them and he saw me welling up.  This was the [...]

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For Halloween this year, I’ve dressed up like I do every year - as a creature of habit.  (whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo, insert other scary sounds here)

Whew, that camera phone is just … unflattering at best.  I’m not giving it much material to work with, though, so I can’t blame Sony Ericsson 100%  :)  But given [...]

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Perhaps it’s because I’m here @ work *way* too late tonight, but I was staring at a packet of soy sauce and thought “wouldn’t it be cool if I had a little straw thingy that I could poke in to the soy sauce to drink it like it was a miniature CapriSun?”  Yes, that was [...]

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I’m looking for what I thought would be a simple task.  I’m trying to have a sheet in Excel act as a ‘view’ of columns in other sheets.  Sheet 5 would have Sheet 1 columns A B and C, Sheet 2 column A, etc.  I can’t find any way to do this, and searching [...]

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Wow. Wow. Wow.
I switched to Geico in May because it was about 20% cheaper than the company I was using before (progressive). Nothing wrong with them - good service, really - but I couldn’t save no to a 20% drop. I was paying $1000 every 6 months for our two cars [...]

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OK, so we’ve finally got a bit of rain in the triangle area.  It’s not enough to put any stop on the water restrictions we’ve had, but it’s certainly welcome.  If we were to get this amount even just once more in October I think it would feel like a big deal to everyone here.  [...]

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UK’s Daily Telegraph had an article about Dr. James Watson’s comments about the genetic implications of intelligence. Some of the conclusions he draws imply that blacks are genetically not as intelligent as whites. Dr. Watson was one of the co-discoverers of the double-helix foundations of DNA.
Another article from the BBC includes the following [...]

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Can phone calls be considered spam?  Telemarketers apparently have my name and cell number and are calling me.  Not just any telemarketers.  I’m getting cold calls from the US military.  I had someone from who knows what branch - she just said ‘military’ - call me last week.  I had ‘expressed an interest’ in joining [...]

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