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New IE on Automatic Update

This morning the new IE 7 was installed on my computer as part of my XP automatic updates. I took the quick tour. I wasn’t surprised to find that it looked amazingly like Firefox. I only got to play around for about 5 minutes or so before it crashed. Yeah, I sent an error report…

Getting Things Done

I checked out Getting Things Done from the library. I read about a quarter of it before I had to return it again. You can see I really need to read this book!

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Same Blog, New Home

OK, this is the second time I’ve changed the name of my blog, but this time I think it will stick. Why? Because I’ve found a new home! Rather than keeping it on a sub-domain, I’ve got my own domain for my highly refreshed blog. I really never thought it would come to this.
Why Nerdy […]

Bedbugs & Beetles, or Skeeters?…

My daughter came home from pre-school singing a turtle song with a familiar tune. The tune came from a song I used to hear a lot back when I was in the second grade. I tried to google it to find the “official” lyrics, only to learn there seems to be no official lyrics - […]

Grim Reeper Prank

Oh, this is too funny!

SVN is saving me lots of time!

OK, I see the joy of SVN now. I often work from two different computers. Keeping files synced was a chore. Now I have a svn repository on www.unfuddle.com. I run and update when I start working on one computer and commit when I’m done. I never FTP anymore! To publish my work to the […]

Reading 4 Chapter a Day

I’m on Job 31… still on track to finish the Old Testament in 2006!

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Paying Down the Debt

I’ve paid my credit card balance to below 10K finally. I’ve surfed it to a 0% interest. My goal is to have it paid within a year so I never have to pay interest on it.

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New Little Leage Fields

It appears we are getting some new little league fields in my neighborhood.
Below is the new design:

And this is how it is currently laid out:

My Inbox is Empty!

I completed all my starred items and followed up with all necessary. My inbox is empty (for now). I got a message I’ve never seen before:
“No new mail! There’s always Google News if you’re looking for something to read.”

See more progress on: Clear out my Gmail inbox