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Wednesday, December 27, 2006 10:25 AM

The Dumbest Christmas Tradition

Merry Christmas. Attending midnight mass last night, (message delayed a bit due to technical difficulties) I was reminded of what is clearly one of the dumbest Christmas traditions practiced by many. Many (probably most) Christians will display a nativity
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Friday, December 22, 2006 10:14 AM

One reason why it's cool to have WindowsCE on your mobile phone.

Like most Americans (and many others around the world), I've spent a lot of time the passed few weeks shopping for Christmas presents. Actually, I didn't spend that much until this week, which was part of the problem, so this week was a panic. Anyway,
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Thursday, September 28, 2006 12:04 AM

Games Tax Agencies Play

I live in NJ, and last year (and half of this year -- but that's another story) I worked in New York State (Manhattan to be precise). This meant that back in April, in addition to the Federal tax return, I also had to file returns for both NY & NJ.
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006 8:08 PM

RockStar : Supernova

My guilty please of the summer of watching the Reality show "RockStar : Supernova". It's the sequel/spin-off/second season of last year's "RockStar : INXS" where the surviving members of the band INXS selected a replacement for Michael Hutchence who had
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Thursday, June 08, 2006 12:28 PM

Death Forecast

James's Death Forecast: It is estimated that you will die at the age of 77 Years Old . http://deathforecast.com/result.php?record=106381 . However, after I filled that out for myself, I tried it for my father (who died 2000 at age 71). It predicted he
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Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:56 AM

Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

You Passed 8th Grade Math Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Math? Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Readability Stats: Word Count: 17; Sentence Count: 2; Grade Level: 2.3, more info...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2005 10:36 AM

kinda sad actually.....

Your Travel Profile: You Are Extremely Well Traveled in the Northeastern United States (100%) You Are Well Traveled in Scandinavia (60%) You Are Somewhat Well Traveled in Canada (40%) You Are Somewhat Well Traveled in the Southern United States (23%)
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Thursday, June 02, 2005 7:57 AM

Which Simon and Garfunkel album am I?

I'm Bridge Over Troubled Water ! Which Simon and Garfunkel album are you? Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Readability Stats: Word Count: 12; Sentence Count: 2; Grade Level: 5.4, more info...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:04 AM

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Your Linguistic Profile: 50% General American English 35% Yankee 10% Dixie 5% Upper Midwestern 0% Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak? Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Readability Stats: Word Count: 24;
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Thursday, April 08, 2004 10:06 AM

MVP Summit, Day 3 & the Pink Door.

On the third day of the Summit, the MVPs met with the Product teams at Microsoft for whichever product they support. That means I met with the folks on the C++ Team, who told me all about what's coming up in the next version of Visual Studio. In other
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Saturday, April 03, 2004 9:21 PM

Order in Chaos, the Answer...

Ok, before I get to anything else (and there will be a bit), I'd better answer the question I posed last month (BTW, notice that I've never let a full month go by without a blog entry -- I'll get the hang of this thing yet....) Anyway, the reason, as
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Tuesday, January 27, 2004 10:39 PM

Office Football pool

Like pretty much every office in the country, mine has a pool of the Superbowl. Since we don't have enough employee to fill 100 boxes, each person got four combinations. Mine are 6-0, 5-0, 1-7, 2-3. (Patriot's scores listed first). So, given that, here
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Saturday, December 06, 2003 8:50 PM

Still more from last month.... (the Britney Spears post)

OK, I'll get to Thanksgiving soon. But I've still more it talk about from before that... Going back to, I guess, Nov 14th, I saw Saturday Night Live on TV. I don't watch it that often, so naturally, it was a repeat of a show I'd seen a few weeks earlier.
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Thursday, December 04, 2003 10:27 AM

It's been a month (Part II)

On Nov 19th, I started my new job at PartSearch Technologies . On Nov 20th, having realized a few days earlier that Driver's License had expired three weeks earlier, I got a new one after work -- waiting in long lines, and thereby missing Bat Boy - The
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Thursday, September 04, 2003 9:45 AM

The New Season

I noticed something interesting today. With the passing of Labor day, summer's over, and September's here, and, tin lower Manhattan at least, it's now, apparently, World Trade Center Memorial Season. The first sign was this morning, as I was on the subway
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