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There are two primary reasons I do not own an iPhone today, both relate to my not being a typical user: AT&T Wireless is unwilling/unable to port my current South Dakota number over to their network (and I’m not about to give up my existing number...
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I still need to post a full write up of the glorious vacation I had back in November... however I pause to say that UPS has effectively ruined the vacation and cost me dearly as a result. While back in South Dakota hunting I was successful in taking two...
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That’s right. You heard me... yesterday, December 22nd was the first day of the spring! Says who? Says Joe Soucheray, Grand Poobah of The Royal Order of the 21sters . Who are they? We are a group of people who have willing surrendered normalcy so as to...
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The Seattle area has had some issues with snow over the last few days and due to a less than favorable plow-to-person ratio (tm) 2008 Brendan Grant (yes I hereby trademark in text that phrase I’ve used for quite some time (including during my Microsoft...
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We've all heard how'd evil it is for an application to call home. Sure there are evil things out there like adware, spyware, and other such bits... but what about basic usage reporting? For years web analytics tools such as AWStats , Google Analytics...
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While this has always been a 'personal' blog, I have often times refrained from posting about various personal subjects, this post, along with the possibility of one or two more on this subject will break from that tradition. What follows is a...
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What’s worse than having your 5 year old POS of a laptop die on you midway through a 2+ week long out of state vacation? To have the much needed bag of screws that I collected when I was disassembling the laptop in my uncles living room in North Dakota...
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This evening while sitting in the living room of an aunt and uncle in Bismark North Dakota and discussing the news of the pirates who attacked, captured and are ransoming a Saudi owned super tanker I got a thinking of the following graph which is a well...
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Given some of the various ideas from this years presidential candidates ( socialized medicine from Obama and socialized housing from McCain), as well as near socializing of US banks ( not to be out done by British banks ). I believe that there is one...
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Traditionally most companies are fine with their employees making a buck on the side or donating their time or services just so long as doing so doesn't conflict of interest with the their day job either through causing ones work quality to...
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What does a guy do when he’s going to take a break from some work for the evening? Sit down, watch a bit of TV and come up with conspiracy theories of course! They are all the rage right now aren’t they ? So I was going through tonight’s episode of Hannity...
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My favorite Microsoft product (Windows Home Server) is made successful not only through great software, but also through the availability of inexpensive massive hard drives (and plenty of them) and last month when Seagate announced their upcoming 1.5...
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After a (sarcastic) discussion last week about how soon everyone would be work for me one way or another I came to realize that I've come to learn much at Microsoft, and in that time have seen gaps that I believe only I can properly fill and as a...
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...or "Two century club" ...or "longest 8 lbs ever!" My long running weight loss campaign has hit another milestone today with the scale telling me I'd reached 215 lbs, 200.2 lbs down from where I'd started back in May of 2006...
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...or "Two century club" ...or "longest 8 lbs ever!" My long running weight loss campaign has hit another milestone today with the scale telling me I'd reached 215 lbs, 200.2 lbs down from where I'd started back in May of 2006...