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  • Busy busy

    I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t had time to post much around here. Aside from a couple of help-style posts, I have some stuff to give you a heads up about. Over the next few weeks or few months, I’m going to be migrating some content onto this site. You might have seen…

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  • Stellarium – An OpenSource Star Watching Program

    Looking to learn more about the stars? have a telescope already? Check this software out. It runs in all major operating systems and it seems to be “best of breed” in this area.

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  • YouTube – Christopher Walken performs Lady Gaga’s Poker Face

    Awesome video by Christopher Walken. This guy is just funny to listen to. If he read books to make audio books, I would pay to hear those.

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  • Gliffy, an online replacement for Visio

    Gliffy is an online diagram service that lets you create charts, flow charts, wireframe models, business process models and other similar things. It is more commonly used as a generic visio replacement. It works on the browser and you can create stuff before you even have to sign up. There are free accounts and premium…

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  • Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

    Ten of my favorite Soren K. Quotes. During the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself. Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. I…

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  • How to Completely Uninstall WP-e-commerce shopping cart plugin.

    I’ve been working on two sites to bring forward a shop. One of the sites is solely based on wp-e-commerce and wordpress and the shop functions will be in a catalog format. The other site will only have shopping functions, like “add to cart” or “buy now”. I have to do testing a lot to…

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  • Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize, my couple of thoughts.

    I read this morning, its on twitter and everywhere else. Woohoo, our President was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But really? Does he deserve it? I admire the guy, for the most part and as far as my limited knowledge of politics and world diplomacy goes, he’s doing great things. Muhammed Yunnus Nelson Mandela…

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  • Parrots in Irvine

    Seriously, who would have thought you’d find parrots in Irvine? During the earlier weeks of summer and a little bit before, I would hear and see parrots all over the park near my house. Picasso got scared a few times when they would make noise as we walked under the eucalyptus trees where they hung…

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  • Went to Ellen’s show. Ho hum.

    Yesterday I got a chance to go watch The Ellen Show. Well, kinda, let me step back just a bit. My wife asked me recently if I wanted to go and watch Ellen, Helen’s a big fan of her so I thought: Why not, it should be fun. I like Ellen, and I think she’s…

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  • Google Sidewiki. Awesome.

    I just read about Google’s Sidewiki and after watching the short demo video, I think this is awesome. Many other services have come along to try to do this, including some firefox extensions but with Google’s huge userbase, I think this will be the winner. yeah I can see comments about a website on StumbleUpon,…

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