Posted in April 3rd, 2010
I saw this on a box of candy, deployed in a workplace to raise money for charity. I thought it was pretty funny that candy, being sold to raise money for a children’s hospital, is not to be sold to children. When I saw this I asked some people about it. They hadn’t noticed but [...]
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Posted in March 15th, 2010
Just a short evening post to remark that I look at my meager site statistics every day. Writing more doesn’t seem to bring more hits. Oh well. I enjoy it anyway.’ I did notice someone is using Ubuntu as their OS. Cool. My home PC runs Windows as does my work system, but my netbook [...]
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Posted in November 26th, 2009
I could resist no longer. I was truly powerless. It was SOooo Sweet! So now I own a little blue netbook. $199 from Target. It’s still running windows but tomorrow should be up running Ubuntu’s netbook remix.
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Posted in August 10th, 2009
It seems there is a shortage in the world supply of sugar. Weather in India and Brazil are to blame. I heard somewhere demand for sugar to make ethanol is another factor. I think I heard sugar is at an all time high price. I can’t see how this will impact me directly.
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Posted in August 6th, 2009
I listened to the comments made by the ladies who were being released by the North Koreans. They expressed joy at seeing former president Clinton waiting for them because they knew they were being set free. I waited desperately for one of them to say: “Oh no! They captured you too!”
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Posted in July 10th, 2009
I don’t get that many hits a days. 10-20 typically. Over the last 5 days, the hits break down like this: LUXEMBOURG 35.26% UNITED STATES 27.17% UNITED KINGDOM 12.14% CANADA 9.83% SINGAPORE 9.25% RUSSIAN FEDERATION 1.16% JAMAICA 0.58% THAILAND 0.58% JAPAN 0.58% BULGARIA 0.58% REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA 0.58% THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA 0.58% [...]
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Posted in April 23rd, 2009
I had my annual physical today. So far, so good. My appointment was at 9am and as I didn’t want to have to come back another day for blood work, I fasted, just in case that was necessary. I was hungry at 8am when I might normally eat on a work day. By 9, I [...]
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Posted in April 9th, 2009
And now for something completely different. My rear brakes have been making noise so I took the car in for service. Metal on metal in the rear. $350.00 Oh, by the way, the front aren’t good either. Another $900.00 I can do without a $1250 car repair bill. I decided that as the front didn’t [...]
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Posted in February 16th, 2009
The statistics for this blog (I use FireStats and donated too) report my visitors are more global than I would have guessed. Over the past 30 days it looks like about 33% of my visitors are outside of the USA: UNITED STATES 66.60% UNITED KINGDOM 6.24% IRAQ 3.70% CANADA 3.28% MEXICO 2.75% JAPAN 2.64% TAIWAN [...]
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Posted in February 5th, 2009
A few times a day, I take a quick scan of my spam folder before emptying. Lately, a lot of the subject lines say something like: Somebody thinks your hot! Is that supposed to be news to me?
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