Archive for the 'Personal' Category
June 25th, 2009
I remember in 1982 1983 while walking down the street the local bully beckoned me into his house. I don’t know why I went. I thought for sure I was going to get beat-up bad. Instead we sat together and watched the new Michael Jackson video… Thriller. He most likely kicked [...]
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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 speech [...]
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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 relaxing [...]
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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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