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Friday, July 01, 2011 9:14 AM

I am NOT a stalker.

Yesterday, I as was stepping out of Penn Station on my way to work, I noticed that the woman walking a few steps ahead of me appeared, from the rear at least, rather pretty. And as we started to walk up 8th Avenue, it seemed that our routes to work overlapped,
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Monday, June 22, 2009 12:51 PM

Washington vs. Hollywood.

With the pending appointment of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, someone pointed out that if she is approved, there will have been in 120 years, 111 Supreme Court Justices, of whom, only three were women and only two were African American, with all the rest being
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:15 PM

Fun Fact: To the Moon, Alice, to the Moon!

I really should bring the subject matter here back around to computers..... Lately (if you consider the last year & a half "lately"), I've been working on a project on my laptop using VisualStudio (usually on the train to work). Every now & then
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Monday, February 12, 2007 4:54 PM

A quick way to go to Shrinkster links.

I just read an article over on CodeProject on creating a small application to quickly go to a Shrinkster.com url , and as I was reading it, a simpler method occurred to me. Backing up a bit, Shrinkster.com is a site which holds a gaint database of web
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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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Friday, December 08, 2006 1:10 PM

Life expectancies, II (really short ones)

To follow up on my earlier message on life expectancies, we should talk about the other confusing aspect of them: Why are they sometimes ridiculously low. For example, the present life expectancy for someone living in the USA is 77, which you'd think
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Friday, December 08, 2006 5:09 AM

Life Expectancies

After my messages about Rock Star: Supernova, I guess now I can talk about the other reality show I watch, NBC's " Biggest Loser ", which takes a group a overweight people, and puts them through a regiment of diet & exercise. The winner is the one
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Thursday, November 30, 2006 1:50 PM

The Speed of Meme, and the discrete charm of easy to generate content.

I hate posts which are just links to other pages (which is actually not true --- I do like reading other people's blogs which are just links --- I just think it's cheating when I do it) But this site has a built in reason to blog a link to it (He's trying
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Friday, October 13, 2006 12:07 PM

A Puzzle....

Many years ago, I came up with this brain teaser. Since It don't recall ever trying it on anyone, I'm not sure how difficult it is. So, I figured I'd inflict it on you, my loving readers. Everything follows this rule, unless it's foreign, scientifical
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Friday, September 29, 2006 6:58 PM

Thoughts on eXtreme Programming

I recently started a new job. (Leaving the old one wasn't my idea, but that's a story for another time). This company is a computer equipment manufacturer, and will be releasing a new model in the coming months. Which means all their drivers and other
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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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Friday, March 24, 2006 2:51 PM

Too smart by Half

Today, I was at a Italian resturant, and was wondering "What, exactly, is Bolognese sause?" So, being the properly wired guy, I pulled out my cell phone to take advantage of Google's SMS server : I sent a message saying "define Bolognese" to 46646 ("GOOGL").
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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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Saturday, September 04, 2004 10:41 AM

America is Doomed.....

OK, I don't mean that in the sense “...if Bush is re-elected..” No, this goes deeper than the election..... Yesterday, I saw an “Washington Power Players“ Edition of Jeopardy (It may have been a re-run from earlier in the season).
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Monday, August 30, 2004 12:50 AM

Lesbian Porn

Ok, so this is blantant Google-bait, but my treatise on Britney's breast isn't getting that many hits lately. Anyway, I've heard various reasons why girl-on-girl sex scenes are so interesting to men. For example, some would argue that these excite men,
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Sunday, August 29, 2004 10:55 PM

I will never be a novelist.

OK, let us recap. A whole bunch of posts in April, None in May, One in June. None in July. And now, we're down to the wire in getting a message out sometime in August I have been told the that the trick to being a professional writer is to force yourself
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Sunday, April 11, 2004 11:04 PM

On the release of Top Secret Memos....

It's a Washington maxim, that if you want to bury a news story, release it after 6pm on a Friday, because no one watches the new over the weekend. The August 6th 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing was released after 6PM on a Saturday of a Holiday weekend
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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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Wednesday, April 07, 2004 8:51 PM

Scoble watch --- Challenge met!!!!

Three friggin' hours! I bow down to the master......... Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Readability Stats: Word Count: 9; Sentence Count: 10; Grade Level: K, more info...
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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 18, 2003 10:13 AM

The Toothbrush Mystery

Things we do without thinking about them.
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Friday, September 12, 2003 5:17 PM

The Right Personality

It seems lots of programmer/blogger folks ( ScottW , Chris Sells , Duncan Mackenzie , Kent Sharkey , GAD ) are taking an online Myers-Briggs personality test , and all coming up as type “ENTJ” (that's “Extroverted Intuitive Thinking Judging" for those
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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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Monday, August 25, 2003 10:45 AM

Lightning....

This probably should be included as part of the “back-fill” since it relates to something that happened last week, but I'm figuring no one is actually going to read anything but the new stuff, so I'll dated it today. Anyway, last weekend I was in Cape
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Tuesday, August 12, 2003 9:05 PM

Looking beyond the "Facts"

From 13-Feb-2003: Ok, my second entry, and it's only five days after my first... I'll get the hang of this yet. Actually, I think the main reason I haven't written in the past five days is that I'd just be hitting on the same topic as last time (The pending
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