Archive for December, 2007

A weekend of non-events!

They were supposed to leave Friday night, but due to the snow in Chicago, the girls plane was canceled and they were rescheduled on a flight saturday morning. So we loaded up early saturday morning and I dropped them off at the airport. Its hard watching three of the most important people in my life [...]

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Make Entrecard Work for you

Dropping cards for traffic sounds like it is too good to be true doesn’t it? In fact, it is a little too good to be true, there’s more to EntreCard than just dropping yours where ever you feel like. This past week, I’ve taken the opportunity to visit a lot of the sites that Entrecard [...]

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Post Christmas Wrapup

Christmas (and boxing day for you Brits) has come and gone and little is left to tell that it was ever here at all. Oh, don’t get me wrong, the tree is still up, the decorations haven’t been taken down and there’s still a pile of trash to go out on Monday, but there are [...]

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Thursday Thirteen – 13 facts about New Years

Thirteen Facts about NEW YEARS!In no particular order… The celebration of the new year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago. In the years around 2000 BC, the Babylonian New Year began with the first New Moon (actually the first visible cresent) after the Vernal [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2007-12-26

Haha!! Back to work!! # Is there any way to live with out working?? # Don’t leave me with the babies!!! # Powered by Twitter Tools.  

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Your Average Joe

Apparently, people like Mike because he looks like your average medical supplies salesman from the midwest (I don’t know if there are a lot of Med Supplies salesmen there, it just seems like something they’d have in the midwest, doesn’t it?). He took the opportunity over the holiday weekend to go pheasant hunting. Apparently the [...]

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ASMW – All about Abbott

Today’s ASMW comes to us from a pretty hip chick who’s performed in coffee houses and bars for most of her career (think of Phobee from Friends, but with amazing talent and a pretty good voice too!). Christina Abbott hails from NY and has been a singer/song writer for most of her life. The route [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2007-12-25

Merry Christmas!! # Powered by Twitter Tools.  

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Twitter Updates for 2007-12-24

Its cold @ the rock # Holy crap its cold # At work on christmas eve. Database rebuilds suck!! # The building makes weird noises when no one else is working… # Powered by Twitter Tools.  

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A new do!

Some of you might have noticed (if you visit the blog regularly anyways) the new duds. I’ve been working on this design for about a week with a designer and I had some free time today so I decided to go ahead and begin getting it all setup correctly. The main features of the blog [...]

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Some cheese with your wine?

Saturday night was our annual Christmas Dinner party where we have some friends over, drink a lot and eat a lot. Everyone started arriving around 6:30pm and by the time we sat down to dinner at 7:30, the group had gone through two and a half bottles of wine I had received from the wine [...]

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Visiting Santa

There’s something about being two that turns the vision of santa from fairytale to nightmare as quickly turning on a light switch. We took the girls to see santa last Tuesday night at the mall and the whole time we were in line waiting (an hour and a half) Emma was her usual self. Happy, [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2007-12-23

Takin the dog to the trainer # Gotta finish wrapping presents!!! # Its a stone mtn christmas # Powered by Twitter Tools.  

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Twitter Updates for 2007-12-22

Oh my gosh food shopping today sucks!! # Gettin ready for the dinner partay tonite! # Powered by Twitter Tools.  

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Twitter Updates for 2007-12-21

Watching the cheese on lifetime with ames # Is it 2008 yet?? # Home!! For the time being anyways # Powered by Twitter Tools.  

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Making life easier

Ask anyone who knows me and they’ll tell you I’m always looking for ways to make my life easier. I have MobileAdmin on my Blackberry so I can access the server at work no matter where I am (as long as I have a data connection). I can access my webservers via ssh from the [...]

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Design Time

So I’ve been a little busy today. In addition to it being the company Christmas Luncheon here at work (YAY! Turkey!) I’ve been working with a designer on a new theme for the site. He’s been working on the design for a week or so now (and he’s probably sick and tired of me bugging [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2007-12-20

Trying to download super mario bros to the wii # Back @ work, nose to the grindstone!! # Gots to go pick up the rugrats! # Powered by Twitter Tools.  

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Flyin Solo

I mentioned in a post earlier in the week how Bill Clinton said that his wife, if elected president would send him and Former President Bush out to the world to “smooth things over”. It appears, that may in fact, not be the case as the Current President Bush (are you almost confused yet?) had [...]

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Book a Vacay!

One of the toughest decisions we have to make when we travel is where we’re going to spend the night once we get the where we’re going. Luckily when we go to New Orleans or Chicago, we can generally find room with family. However, for trips else where we like to hit up HotelReservations.com for, [...]

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Ophcrack Livecd 1.2.2.iso Now Available at LinuxTracker.org

Linuxtracker.org is pleased to announce the availability of Ophcrack Livecd 1.2.2.iso on the linuxtracker bittorrent network. For faster downloads, more accurate statistics and to see all of the available torrents, please visit http://linuxtracker.org.read more | digg story  

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Thursday Thirteen – 13 facts about Christmas

Thirteen Facts about christmas!In no particular order… Gospel writers Mark, Luke, and John don’t even mention the Three Wise Men. The one who does mention them, Matthew, does not specify how many wise men there were. We came up with the number three. In fact, historical accounts reveal the Wise Men and the shepherds visited [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2007-12-19

Cookin the dinner! # Powered by Twitter Tools.  

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Lumi Vs. Train

I’m not convinced that Lumiere is not an idiot. The trainer we’ve been working with at Man’s Best Friend in Woodstock told us early on that his stubbornness was a sign of a smart dog. I just don’t know. I’ve shared videos before of Lumi running in circles in the backyard and barking at nothing [...]

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Good grief!

In a time when most candidates are releasing holiday themed ads Romney releases one where he comes to the rescue for a friend of his and Huckabee draws fire for an almost non-issue. As you can see in the image, Mike is cleverly positioned in front of a bookcase and a christmas tree in his [...]

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You Da Man!

Time magazine has named their person of the year for 2007 and this one comes as a bit of a surprise to me. Vladimir Putin (the former Russian President who managed to get his buddy elected as President and have himself installed as Prime Minister) is the lucky receipient this year and after reading the [...]

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ASMW – Who Thought?

Who thought the railroad wouldn’t last? I can honestly say it wasn’t these two. Jim Lauderdale and Ralph Stanley have teamed up on “I feel like singing today” and released an amazing bluegrass collection that any BG fan would love. Listen to the sound on “Who Thought the Railroad Wouldn’t Last” and tell me you [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2007-12-18

Yay me!! We’re going to see santa!! # Powered by Twitter Tools.  

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Give your blog a hug with rssHugger

These days it seems that traffic boosting schemes are around every corner when it comes to finding ways to improve traffic to your blog. Blogrush, BloggingZoom, Sphinn, Entrecard, thoof, Digg and so many others that if I typed them all out I’d be here for hours. It boggles the mind that yet another one could [...]

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VectorLinux 5.9 RC3 Now Available at LinuxTracker.org

Robert Lange has announced the availability of the third release candidate of VectorLinux 5.9 and Linuxtracker.org is pleased to announce the availability of VectorLinux 5.9 RC3 on the linuxtracker bittorrent network. For faster downloads, more accurate statistics and to see all of the available torrents, please visit http://linuxtracker.org. read more | digg story  

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Calling in a favor?

According to CNN, one of the first things Hillary would do as President is send her husband and former president George HW Bush (bush the first) out on a diplomatic mission to “repair the damage done to America’s reputation by the current president”. Billy Boy does go on to admit that one of the key [...]

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