Random Thoughts
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Grrrr….
I like my iPhone plenty. What I don’t like is having to reload everything on it every two weeks. Continue reading
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Census commentary
This was taken from the August 11, 2010 newsletter, the RootsWeb Review (Vol. 13, No. 8), and it gave me the giggles: This was written in the margin of the 1803 Census for Oglethorpe County Georgia, Capt Parmenas English District. “Fishing Creek Academites part morallised the rest get drunk run in debt can’t pay go Continue reading
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It’s Snowing!!!
Well it was! Not just on my blog, either. When I woke up this morning (late), and took the dog out, I heard the tip tip of tiny raindrops, and saw that they were actually little snowflakes 🙂 I bring proof, even (see attachments) Continue reading
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Attributions
I really love Flickr and it’s support of various kinds of Creative Commons licensing, which I’ve used to share my photos with various websites. My favorite site that I’ve shared with lately is Oddly Specific, which I heard about at the Microsoft PDC09 keynote speech, and to which I submitted my favorite sign ever: I Continue reading
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Final Update on the Drive
They did it!!!! The Geek Squad rescued all my data!!!! They’re mailing it back to me on a portable drive. I ❤ the Geek Squad. I ❤ Seagate, too. I checked on them, and they were really laid back. Don’t worry about the drive, they said, we’ll take it when you get it back. I Continue reading
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Update on the downed drive
Thank you all for responding to my previous post! I was going pretty crazy over that, I can tell you, but all the support both here and on FB really allowed my temper to calm! So, the drive is in Level 3 Data Recovery at the Geek Squad DRD Lab. Apparently, they had to take Continue reading
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Finished XML!!!
For better or worse. I’m fervently praying for an A, but there’s a great feeling of catharsis when you just let something go into someone else’s hands. This class plagued me all week, and so last night’s letting go was especially lovely. On to Java, but I don’t have to think about it yet!!!! 🙂 Continue reading
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What Role Playing Games Can Teach You About Business
My father never sends me articles, so when he sent me one on 10 Business Lessons I Learned From Dungeons and Dragons today, I took notice. (this led to further links like Everything I Know I’ve Learnt (sic) From D&D and Object-Oriented Programming Concepts in Java, Explained with D&D – of which that latter one Continue reading
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I’m going to Sam’s
Somebody do my HTML project for me? It has to be done entirely in Notepad. Matt, this would finally teach you how to spell HTML…no? Ok. I’ll do both…sigh… Continue reading
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Weirdness…
I went to go and pay for my Wordcamp Dallas passes and the site was down. Annoying. In other crashing news (from yesterday): fans followed Miracle Laurie’s suggestion to call Fox Broadcasting and encourage them to renew Dollhouse. How do we know? They crashed Fox’s phone system. Here’s the original tweet. Here’s the story on Continue reading
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