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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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