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Christmas Computer shopping made easy
If you want to save money buy this. With XP. Only choose options you are Certain you need. Hint. MS Office is not one of them. You might consider the CD Burner or speakers. If you don’t care about money buy this. Choose whatever options seem like fun. Its only money.
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things i want.
A Laptop that will power its USB ports even when the laptop is off. Like ACC mode in car. To be able to donate to candidates but if they don’t do what they say then I get the money back. A smart phone that doesn’t suck and is open. To delay getting bifocals as long…
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American Christianity
American is sometimes called the most Christian nation in the developed world. Whatever. I think we have a lot of stuff going on here that gets called Christianity. I’m having more and more trouble deciding what that means. It seems to mostly be people arguing about who Jesus was rather than trying to do what…
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Managing Nerds
Its a great thing Micheal Lopp is still blogging after he finished his book. Otherwise we would miss out on great stuff like this. Your nerd has built an annoyingly efficient relevancy engine in his head. It’s the end of the day and you and your nerd are hanging out on the couch. The TV…
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YAMSR
I recently switch to using a Mac for my main computer. I decided I didn’t want to move to vista and while I love ubuntu I don’t really want to use an os which still requires me to edit files in /etc to hook to a secure wifi access point. I do have a gutsy…
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Testing Faith
At 40+ I consider myself an “old” programmer although it feels better to just think of myself as “old-school”. Its an interesting ride because I go back and forth between feeling like I have seen all the things come around 100 times and thinking there is so much new stuff I will never be able…
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The numbers according to Warren
From here. Â Mr Buffett said that he was taxed at 17.7 per cent on the $46 million he made last year, without trying to avoid paying higher taxes, while his secretary, who earned $60,000, was taxed at 30 per cent. Mr Buffett told his audience, which included John Mack, the chairman of Morgan Stanley,…
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Managing Humans
Micheal Lopp’s book is probably the best book written on software management. Buy a copy for your boss today!
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Day(s) of the Dolphin(s)
I haven’t posted in a while mostly because I have been busy working and also because the only things I feel like saying lately are things which would probably get me a visit from Homeland Security. Maybe I’ll spend some time and write up my thoughts about “The God Delusion” by Dawkins but the more…
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Actually, I think I’ll pass…
“You know what truth is? It’s some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, “Yeah, yeah – ain’t it the truth?”