Archive for the 'Personal' Category
November 25th, 2007
I came from a pretty poor family. Sometimes we only had enough money to eat, sometimes not even that. However, through education (the great equalizer), I managed to work my way up the economic ladder to a very comfortable middle class career. Unfortunately, because of my background I had developed some pretty nasty [...]
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October 19th, 2007
While my wife an son were away on summer vacation I had a lot of time to myself. I had planned to finish updating CoordEx to .NET, add a few tweaks to Xinha Here, and release one or two of the dozen other projects I’ve been working on. But instead I spent my time [...]
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June 23rd, 2007
I recently returned from a trip to Japan to visit the in-laws. My father-in-law speaks very little English and I speak even less Japanese so we often communicate though gestures and single words. One day I noticed a very cubic looking stained glass lamp shade he had made (stained glass is a hobby of his). [...]
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July 3rd, 2006
5 reasons I’ve been such a bad blogger; in order of increasing free time consumption:
My new GameznFlix.com subscription
My New PSP
My new Siemens SX66
CakePHP rocks!
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January 2nd, 2006
At work we get the week between Christmas and new years off. Upon returning to work all conversation seam to start with “So what did you do over break?”. I then have to listen to my co-workers rattle on about their trips Vegas, Tahiti vacations, wild New Years parties. Me, my answer is typically: [...]
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