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There's been a lot to admire in the field of automotive design the past few years. (Exhibits: Ferrari 599, Aston Martin Vantage, Alfa Romeo 8C) There's also been a lot of controversy. (Bangle, anyone?) For all the controversial designs, you couldn't really point to too many outright design misses. But two cars were recently introduced at the Chicago Auto Show that really miss the mark, in my

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Took Miranda to a Breakfast with Santa event put on by the Parks and Rec Dept. last weekend. The middle school choir was singing carols, and I took Miranda up front to watch them sing.As we got up to go back to our table, I turned around and who did I see? Iron Chef Bobby Flay.I was pretty sure he didn't live in town, so I guess he was visiting a friend and they both came to the event to see the

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Lileks continues to hit the funny bone:most attempts to turn your baby into a SuperGenius via instructional tapes or early exposure to Schoenberg (teaches them how to count to 12, at least) or in-utero projections of high renaissance art are folly, and reflect the insecurities of narcissitic [sic] parents who think that showing a kid Van Gogh when they’re six months old will help them get into

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Another tidbit from James Lileks today.Maybe it was something I realized last weekend, when posting that Back to the Future YouTube link - the movie, which I still think is a perfect little thing, was made in 1985. Marty was sent back to 1955. If they made the movie today, he’d go back to 1977. Think about that. 1977 would look like today, minus computers. Same clothes, same Pink Floyd

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I'd never heard of James Lileks before, but was referred to this Minnesotan journalist/blogger's first entry on his series about visiting Disney World with his family.Who hasn't been to Disney World? Who couldn't relate to this? Lileks has a nice, sardonic writing style, but this sequence convinced me to add James Lileks to me blog list:"The breakfast? The best hotel breakfast ever. They don’t

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A short article in the New York Times technology section caught my eye today. The title in the Times is "Sun and I.B.M. to Offer New Class of High-End Servers," and I thought it would describe some new, run-of-the-mill server offerings from the tech giants that offered grid capability, more processing cores, hot-swappable blade configurations, etc. You know, the standard server enhancements that

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Wendy designed a website for a doctor in Miranda's pediatric practice who specializes in pediatric endocrinology. The website support Dr. Judy Hochstadt's HELP program, which stands for Healthy Eating Lifestyle Program (alternatively, Healthy Eating Loses Pounds).It promises a "simple yet effective six-week nutrition and lifestyle management program, to realize goals of reversing childhood

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I've been playing around with trackingshot.com, which provides an easy, automated way of creating movies (with soundtrack ) from photos. You simply upload a bunch of pictures and an MP3 file, and this site will automatically arrange the photos with transition effects and add the soundtrack.Apparently, the site will analyze the uploaded photos and music, and make a movie with cuts to the beat,

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Just when you thought the PC desktop CPU field couldn't get more confusing, along comes this gem of a phrase that describes Intel's upcoming CPU, code-named "Kentsfield:""two dual-core Core 2 Duo die"

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The original plan was to turn in the Ford Escape I had been driving on the company's dime for 3 days in exchange for a Mustang convertible -- that I would spring for -- for my remaining free time in San Diego.I had flown into town late Sunday night to attend a Gartner conference. While waiting for the lone counter agent to finish up with the customer in front of me, I looked around the Hertz

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The best pizza in the world is coming to within a mile of my house!Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana is widely regarded as the best pizza in the world. And after 80-some-odd years of operating establishments on Wooster Street in New Haven, CT, they are opening a new location mere minutes away from my house in Fairfield.Now, it was never any great hassle to travel 30 minutes up to New Haven for great

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And the Barry goes to...It's a couple of months old, but I did want to mention that my sister -- Mimi Lien -- won a Barrymore Award for Outstanding Set Design! Mimi won for her design for the Wilma Theater production of Outrage, in which she designed a "sprawling vertical set [that] looks like academe in collision with history."The Barrymores are like the Tonys, but focused on the Philadelphia

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Keeping to my recent bi-monthly update schedule, I thought I'd take the opportunity to write-up another entry about the status of our house remodeling project.In the last episode, the drywall had just been installed. Since then, as expected, a lot more has happened, and we're getting really close to being able to move in.The kitchen cabinets got installed, and they really look nice and crisp and

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It's been a long while since the last house project update. Since then, a lot has happened in the house: plumbing and electrical rough-ins were completed and passed inspection. More doors and windows were installed. Our existing house did not have any insulation in the walls, so we took the opportunity to have insulation blown in during the remodeling. One place they didn't blow it into was the

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One week later, and the addition is almost fully framed and sheathed. The window plan is now fully evident from the exterior, at least for the new-built portion of the remodel. And there is now a more fully-developed sense of space on the interior.One of the critical areas that we've been wanting to take a look at has been the area in the kitchen-to-family transition space around the peninsula.

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Back when they were laying the foundation, they also installed a new furnace. Our old furnace was an ancient model that looked like it was at least 50 years old. In addition to being inadequate to heat the expanded structure, it was also probably horribly inefficient.This new Weil-McLain unit comes universally recommended by many plumbers and heating experts, although if you squint at the

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After a lull of about 2-3 weeks during which weather and delayed town inspections resulted in a slow-down of work, things have finally picked back up. Since the last blog entry on April 9, the foundation floors have been poured, and the foundation backfilled. The excess dirt that was excavated was then used to grade-off the backyard.The delay by the town in the inspection of the foundation work

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The masonry crew has essentially completed the buildup of the foundation walls. The exterior of the walls has been smoothed over by a layer of cement, and is awaiting the application of some sort of tar-based waterproofing agent before the backfill goes back in. That waterproofing agent can't be applied until the cement layer is completely dry, which won't be for another couple of days. Also,

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Work on the house stalled over the weekend and into Monday as we waited for the town to inspect and approve the forms that were laid late last week for the foundation footings. Apparently, someone at the town thought the rains over the weekend would have turned our foundation pit into a muddy mess since our house is located among other properties that are within a flood plain, even though ours is

Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13143442212466850658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519162.post-1112285912843557442005-03-31T15:45:00.000-05:002005-03-31T15:57:44.436-05:00

The remodeling project began in earnest today with the arrival of a backhoe and dumpster, a demolition crew, and plumber.The plumber came by first at 7:30am, and disconnected the plumbing from the rear bump out. To do so, he also had to drain the radiator system. Around 8am, the backhoe showed up. They unloaded it from the flatbed in the street and drove it up the driveway. We had just recently

Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13143442212466850658noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519162.post-1112132804676978582005-03-29T16:32:00.000-05:002005-03-29T16:46:44.696-05:00

Our contractor showed up today and pounded in some stakes. These will mark our property side lines, so that workers won't inadvertently trample on our neighbor's property. He also drove in stakes to mark the corners of the new addition.He also scheduled the plumber to come by this afternoon to disconnect the plumbing in the existing rear bump-out that must be demolished to make way for the

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Our long-awaited, much-discussed, frequently-postponed house remodeling project has finally commenced! We signed the contract with our builder last week, and this past Monday we had asbestos abatement contractors remove the asbestos cement shingles from the exterior of our house.Doing so exposed some very nice, thick redwood siding, painted gray. It was also covered in sheets of tinfoil, which

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If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers... "Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted."

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Here's a video of Miranda climbing her "antique" high chair -- the one that Grandpa B refinished for her.Wendy says that one day she had placed Miranda down to go do some cleanup, only to turn around later to find Miranda sitting up in the high chair! She had done some climbing before onto lower-height surfaces like her toy bin, but we didn't think she could climb something so high.Lower-quality

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zipdecodeQuick, tell me where this ZIP code is: 54321. Somewhere in the midwest, right? How about this one: 98765? Must be out west, you say. Or how about 12345? Gotta be somewhere in the east.Everyone knows the basics of ZIP code numbering: lower numbers in the east, higher numbers towards the west. This cool applet will let you zoom in digit-by-digit and see, interactively, how ZIP codes

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The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager "Explore the sea of names, letter by letter...watch trends rise and fall, and dive in deeper to see your favorite name's place in the historical tides."This nifty little Java applet gives an interactive drill-down into the popularity of baby names over the last century, graphing relative popularity of names, as well as their trends.Typing each letter narrows

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The news of wider-than-expected voter turnout in Iraq on Sunday is the first glimmer of hope I've seen about the Iraq situation in a long time. I think the world was expecting horrific violence and low voter turnout, but the opposite happened. Yes, there were election-related attacks by insurgents. But the Iraqi electorate, through sheer force of popular will, seemed to rise as one to take

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A shooting after nightfall "...children started emerging, crying, their faces mottled with blood in long streaks." This is the face of war: a 5 year old girl's face splattered with the blood of her parents as she cries out in terror. I do not blame the soldiers. They are put into an impossible situation, trying to secure their security in an increasingly hostile and unstable environment. I

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GasBuddy.com - Find cheap gas prices in your city "170 gas price information web sites that help consumers find low gasoline prices." I just found out about this site, and I'm intrigued enough to try it out for a while. It looks to be a grass-roots, non-profit effort to disseminate gas prices on a timely basis. The first site that had this functionality was MSN, believe it or not. But they

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Report of the "Defense Science Board Task Force" on Strategic Communication"American efforts have achieved the opposite of what they intended. American direct intervention in the Muslim World has paradoxically elevated the stature of and support for radical Islamists." -- Department of Defense, "Defense Science Board Report on Strategic Communication", October 2004, pg. 40 It's nice to see the

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Pediatric Medicine of Wallingford Here's a plug for a friend's pediatric practice in Wallingford, CT. Hopefully, this will cause Google to crawl the page and include it in its index. Hopefully, it'll also help to increase its PageRank. Just so you know, the practice is called Pediatric Medicine of Wallingford in Wallingford, CT, which is located in Central Connecticut. They are a group of

Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13143442212466850658noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5519162.post-1096482992239502462004-09-30T17:00:00.000-04:002004-10-01T16:15:06.803-04:00

.flickr-photo { border: none; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Miranda Pictures Photo AlbumI've moved the photos of Miranda to a new location. Some of you may have seen the photos of Miranda that I posted online at Ofoto.com. At the time, I thought it was an adequate online service to

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Chinese Grand Prix at the Shanghai International Circuit [planet-f1.com] The inaugural Chinese Grand Prix kicks off this weekend as the newest race on the Formula One calendar, joining Bahrain as first time races on this season's calendar. As an American-born Chinese (ABC, Banana, Twinkie, what have you) I can't say I am that closely tied to the land of my ancestors, but there are still some

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A picture of a "typical" home computer in the year 2004 "...with teletype interface and FORTRAN!"

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Petals Around the Rose Figure out how the score is calculated, and "become a member of the Fraternity of Petals Around the Rose. Also, read what happened when Bill Gates was introduced to Petals Around the Rose in June 1977. How he tackled this brain teaser is an interesting insight into the man at the helm of Microsoft." I'm pleased to note that I figured it out in much less time than Bill

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Renault: 'Jarno's out & Jacques is in' [planet-f1.com] "...the team finally admitted on Tuesday evening that [Trulli's] departure is imminent. And that Jacques Villeneuve could be his replacement." In following Formula 1 for the past few years, one thing I've come to realize is that no sport offers more in the way of media spin than F1. You think MLB or the NFL is bad with disingenuous injury

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While we haven't committed to anything yet, we do believe we're getting close to signing a contract and having work begin on our new addition. To this end, we've cut down 3 trees in the backyard to make room. It's made the backyard much sunnier, yet at the same time there's a more desolate feel to it compared to the intimacy that the cover of the erstwhile 3 trees provided. We had talked to

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Tribute In Light to honor victims of September 11, 2001 - Fullscreen QTVR Panorama Here's a Quicktime panorama of the Tribute In Light, taken from street level looking straight up. Pan up from the initial view to get the best view.

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Indiana University study: having children significantly lowers parents’ IQs [hoosiergazette.com]: "People who before were intelligent and open-minded turn into raving lunatics who want to blame a teacher or coach every time their mediocre child fails" As if it wasn't bad enough that I feel I am half as smart as I was in high school and college, now comes word that being a parent lowers one's IQ

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Let a Thousand Reactors Bloom [wired.com]: "... a new nuclear power facility that promises to be a better way to harness the atom. A reactor small enough to be assembled from mass-produced parts and cheap enough for customers without billion-dollar bank accounts. A reactor whose safety is a matter of physics, not operator skill or reinforced concrete." Nuclear energy in the US and much of the

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Is your data really safer stored digitally? [detnews.com] "I popped the CD-RW into my PC with the same expectation one gets when cracking open a time capsule. And I got -- I got -- nothing but a Windows error message offering to format the unformatted disc in my PC. Everything I had saved, everything I had disposed of because it was supposedly safe, was gone." This article highlights a fact for

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New 3-series spy shot  Bimmer Skinny: We take the wraps off BMW's next-generation 3 Series [autoweek.com] "The basic form of the 3 Series is long established," said recently promoted design boss Chris Bangle. "It’s the proportions that are important; we have worked hard at getting them right. We want to make a new statement on an old theme."Fresh off the heels of the new 6 Series and the European

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My coffee is cold [MSNBC]: "I can serve hot or cold coffee at the same time, and I can serve a large group without standing in the kitchen for a good 30 minutes pouring hot water through a drip filter." - Kristin Yamaguchi Think of brewing coffee and what do you think of? Usually it's some combination of coffee grounds, and bubbling hot boiling water. Intuitively, it seems as if hot water is

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The Globe and Mail [theglobeandmail.com] The water's cold will be extracted and used to lower the temperature in downtown buildings. The water will then be treated and enter the city's drinking supply. From the Department of Why-Hasn't-Anyone-Thought-Of-This-Before, comes the idea of using near-freezing water from the depths of Lake Ontario to use as the cooling agent for air-conditioning in

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Popular Science | Tech '54, Where Are You? [popsci.com] "As the final minutes ticked away until the start of my experiment, I had Piper hide my cellphone, kissed my Sharper Image CD shower radio good-bye, tried to ignore the fact that I would soon be sacrificing 242 TV channels, took a last peek at the Paris Hilton video, and tapped out the following e-mail autoreply: 'I will be offline from 1/1

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As my personal experiment in blogging continues, proof that the blogging phenomenon is gaining traction comes with the admission of bloggers to political conventions with full journalist credentials. Since blogs are very much a grass roots endeavor operating on a much more personal, individual level than mainstream media, it stands to reason that those bloggers committed enough to apply for

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As some of you may know, we've finally decided to move forward with the addition/renovation that we've been talking about for the last 4 years. There was always something that prevented us from moving forward: job security, pregnancy, what-have-you. We finally said, "Enough! Let's just do it!" So we've been working with a designer the last few weeks, hoping to put bids out next week, with the aim

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snowdeal.org > ex machina Part of becoming a new parent means that you become hypersensitive to stories about and images of babies. I can't count the number of times Wendy and I have been watching TV and a baby appears on screen in the show or in a commercial, and we both involuntarily blurt out "Baby!," rewind the TiVo, and watch the baby again. And one of my colleagues recently brought home

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Making Light: Prophetable colors [nielsenhayden.com] "Twice a year they get together in Alexandria, VA, to come up with long-term and short-term color predictions. The long-term prediction is a set of sixteen colors that will be profitably marketable two years hence. That is, the 2003 palette was distributed to manufacturers in 2001. The short-term prediction is a palette of colors declared to

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Miranda has gotten her first teeth! The lower two incisors are just poking through the gum line. This might have been the reason why she was so cranky 2 nights ago, waking up in the middle of the night 2 times. It's hard to see the new teeth in the picture, although it might be easier if you enlarge the photo (click on it).I'll try to take more pictures of the new teeth and post them to the

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CNN.com - Eight more gored by Pamplona bulls - Jul 12, 2004: "Another American, from Georgia, was gored in the scrotum, in the bullring, in what the government spokesman said was a 'slight injury.'" I don't know about you, but I don't classify any goring of the scrotum as a "slight injury."

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Monty Python LEGO (iFilm) For those of you who can't wait for the Holy Grail Broadway musical to get their fix of Alternative Medium Python, check out this LEGO film!

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Traffic Waves, physics for bored commuters "Don't think of it as a stupid f@#$% traffic jam. Think of it as a pressure wave which has approached your car and engulfed it." We've all had this experience when caught up in a traffic jam that seems to have had no cause: you are sure you're going to see some reason for the traffic jam, but when traffic starts moving again there's no reason to be seen

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Article (CNN) Article (Daily Llama) David Hyde Pierce as Sir Robin! Perfect! One has to wonder how such ideas ever make the light of day, but some big name stars are signed onto the project: Tim Curry, Hank Azaria, Mike Nichols to direct. The article mentions that two songs from the original movie will be included in the music. If I were to guess, I'd say they'd be: 1. "Camelot" (of course,

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A Wasted Journey Have you ever seen short, animated Lego® films? They're usually a parody of some film or genre, most commonly Star Wars, The Matrix, or some other geek-friendly oeuvre. There's a whole site devoted to them, www.brickfilms.com, and here I've linked one of my favorites - A Wasted Journey. Like the page says, it helps to know something about StarWars and Monty Python.

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Article (San Francisco Chronicle): "Filene's banned two sisters from all 21 of its stores last year after the clothing chain's corporate parent decided they had returned too many items" The trend in retail the last 15-20 years seems to have been: Cater to the customer whatever the cost. Whether it's no questions asked return policies (which I took advantage of in college with my innovative

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"Mr Powell donned a hard hat and stuffed a hammer in his belt for the Village People's YMCA" A new foreign policy strategy for the US? Video included....

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Previewers, Feel free to use the comment thread of this post to comment on blien, blogs, or bl-anything bl-else.

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"Pat and Mimi sat inside the 2001 silver Toyota Highlander as it filled with water." This will not do any wonders for the stereotype of female driving abilities.

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The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft has penetrated the rings of Saturn and returned some spectacular photos. 3 years after Arthur C. Clarke's fictional manned mission to Jupiter, mankind has sent a spacecraft to probe the Saturn system. For the next 4 years Cassini-Huygens will orbit and investigate Saturn, as well as drop the Huygens probe onto the surface of the largest Saturn moon, Titan. Check

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From the category of "I'll Believe It When I See It" comes this ESPN.com article which indicates Duke's Coach K is in "serious discussions" with the L.A. Lakers about their coaching vacancy. Somehow, I can't see Coach K in the Land of Showtime...

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My sister, Mimi Lien, is a set designer based out of New York City. Her most recent project was Floyd Collins, a musical by Adam Guettel being produced by the Berkshire Theater Festival. There have been a number of very positive reviews, which I'm going to list here because I'm her older brother and I'm very proud of her. http://www.curtainup.com/floydcollinsberk.html http://

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CRIMSON ROOM Yes, you can get out of the room. No, I don't know how, yet.

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The Phone Not really a game. More like an experience.

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Spyware Troubleshooting One of things about being an IT professional is that all your friends and family come to you for computer help. Despite the fact that I'm a development manager and have never worked help desk, I help out as much as I can: 1) because they're my friends and family, and 2) because I enjoy tinkering and working on with computers. My father-in-law's computer has become

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The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > What's Next: Knock 3 Times on the Ceiling (to Turn on the DVD Player): "French physicists have figured out how to rap on tabletops to communicate with CD's, lights or most other nearby electric or electronic devices." I see this going in one of two directions: 1. Either it revolutionizes consumer electronics interfaces, or 2. It's the successor to The

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Today, Connecticut Governor John Rowland, former wunderkind of the GOP, resigns from office amid bribery and corruption scandals, and an ongoing Federal investigation. A shame, really, as I've always thought he was doing a good job as the guv. A couple of years ago, I struck up a conversation with a guy at a bar in Trumbull who told me he had all the inside dirt on Rowland, and that he was as

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More pictures available here.

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Firefox - The Browser, Reloaded Before I get to anything else, I'd just like to put a plug in for Mozilla Firefox, the open-source browser that's been my web surfing tool of choice for the past few months. In light of recent news regarding still more security exploits in Microsoft's Internet Explorer, this seems like a particularly good time to inform some of the less tech-saavy that a choice

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Note the pithy new name! I was getting tired of everything of mine being plien, so with one quick change, I now present... blien! This will work until I give one of my kids a first name beginning with 'B'. I've given up the ghost temporarily on trying to publish this to HostRocket. Blogger says HostRocket doesn't support passive FTP. HostRocket says they do, even though I can't get it work

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OK, this is my second post. I'm still not able to have Blogger publish my blog to an external web site. As far as I can tell, all of the connect information that I have supplied is corrct, but it still keeps failing with some sort of connectivity or I/O error. I suppose I'll start publishing posts like this to try and grab a free GMail account. Oh, and I'l also keep trying the external

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This is my first Blogger post!

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