Archive: 2004

109 entries. 17,253 words.

January, 2004

• New Year’s Update. 2004-01-09 9:53 PM.
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  This is a website update so my throngs of fans out there will continue to flock to my site to read the riveting news of my life. 254 words.
• Racing Champion. 2004-01-10 10:05 PM.
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  I forgot to mention that I won the First Annual Cerebral Locomotion Race With Silly Toy Remote Controlled Cars at work on New Year’s Eve. (Yes, I had to work on New Year’s Eve and Christmas Eve.) I won a bottle of French champaigne for my efforts. 86 words.
• UVTEK Software Beta Site. 2004-01-16 9:32 PM.
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  I’m happy to announce that after a lot of work today, I’ve gotten the UVTEK Software web site into a “beta test” stage. I am still working toward a Spring-time official launch date, but it is at the point now where it can receive some traffic without too much embarrassment. I am planning to release the first public beta of my Defector software (which Cynthia once inadvertantly called my “mistake” software hehe) this Sunday. 112 words.
• Defector Public Beta. 2004-01-18 8:36 PM.
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  In what can only be described as a stunning display of hubris, I have released the first public beta version of my self-critically-acclaimed Defector software. For more information, take a gander at the UVTEK Software page. It’s all just too exciting for words. 43 words.
• Crayola History Update. 2004-01-18 8:44 PM.
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  I’ve just updated the Crayola History with news and information about the current whereabouts of Turquoise and Yellow. Turquoise (aka. Turqy) has a nice web page with samples of his artwork at Turqy.com. 35 words.
• New Pictures Available. 2004-01-20 6:10 PM.
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  Some new pictures are now available for viewing. Check out Fiona Stealing Tristan’s Bed and Our New House Taking Shape. 30 words.
• Yuck. 2004-01-27 4:00 PM.
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  So yesterday it snows. Most of us struggle into work somewhere in the vicinity of the correct time. Julio and his charming wife Gina, decide to sleep in. 574 words.
• Yuck continued. 2004-01-28 3:50 PM.
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  You may notice that the Sarcasm section is no longer “protected.” This is a blatant passive-aggressive move on my part. Fortunately I am a fictional character so there is no harm in this. 367 words.
• Wednesday Night At The Germ Factory. 2004-01-28 8:54 PM.
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  I think I have caught a cold. It was difficult to catch, seeing as how it was moving very fast, but I am a very nimble sort of person with fast reflexes so I was able to grab it. 79 words.
• Not Quite As Yuck. 2004-01-29 3:04 PM.
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  Today was not a bad day in the fictional world of Cerebral Locomotion, although I really don’t remember much of it since I was somewhat doped up on cold medicine. I do remember Julio going on a bit about, erm, dogs and cats for quite a long time though. 109 words.
• Email notification improved. 2004-01-30 8:36 AM.
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  Today I improved the email notification considerably. 29 words.
• Lineage 2?. 2004-01-30 5:48 PM.
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  Yellow reports that Lineage 2 could be the next big massively multiplayer online RPG. 98 words.
• Wet Collie. 2004-01-30 10:19 PM.
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  There’s not really anything interesting going on right now, but I thought I would update the site just so I could use my new and improved email notification features again. 118 words.

February, 2004

• Bizzare. 2004-02-03 4:35 PM.
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  Today was quite bizzare at Gulag 727. Julio arrived at about 9AM ready to work on the automatic pet diagnosis project. I was quite stunned. 110 words.
• Back to Yuck. 2004-02-06 4:27 AM.
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  Yesterday, the situation at Gulag 727 went back to generall yuckiness. As I’ve said before, my current ficitional task is to assist Julio in completing the automatic pet diagnosis report software. This software takes a series of statistical observations about your pet’s symptoms and then generates a long narrative report describing your pet’s condition and suggestions for treatments. 278 words.
• Saturday Workdays Are Alright For Sucking. 2004-02-08 1:27 PM.
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  In case you were wondering, the ficitional Saturday at Cerebral Locomotion was quite fictionally frustrating, as Julio worked tirelessly to keep productivity to a bare minimum. 26 words.
• Finger Sandwiches. 2004-02-08 7:15 PM.
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  Have just activated the link to the first horror story I ever wrote, “Finger Sandwiches.” I wrote it in the year 2000. This is the first time I’ve let anyone read it. Note the warning at the top please. 40 words.
• Ye Gods. 2004-02-17 2:17 AM.
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  The stupid automatic pet diagnosis report is STILL not finished. Since I still have to hold Julio’s hand as he writes the stupid text, I still have to make myself available at times when he CAN write the stupid text, which is almost always outside of the normal workday of 8:30 - 5:15. 152 words.
• Cynthia’s New Job And My Old One. 2004-02-17 7:05 AM.
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  Cynthia has started a new job at NaturaLawn of America. (Yay!) She is currently away at a training seminar thingy in Maryland until Thursday. (Doh.) 86 words.
• Don’t Answer Yet!. 2004-02-20 7:14 AM.
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  I may have said this before, but this time I really mean it: This week was the worst week at Cerebral Locomotion ever. But wait! There’s more! 33 words.
• Read My Book Review Right Now. 2004-02-21 10:03 PM.
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  You heard me. Go read it. Right now. 148 words.

March, 2004

• Latest News from Krehbiel-land. 2004-03-16 9:18 PM.
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  I figured it was time to write an update. 185 words.
• CD Changer and Amp Installed Again!. 2004-03-22 8:47 PM.
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  I finally got around to installing my old (c. 1998) Clarion stereo stuff from my old Toyota truck into my Mazda truck. It was a rather large pain and took up most of Sunday, but I’ve now got my CD changer and 200W amp back in place. 153 words.
• In Other News. 2004-03-22 8:53 PM.
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  Having recently watched Black Hawk Down (yes, we were the last two people to see it), I’ve taken an interest in my grandfather’s World War I diaries again. In addition to the diaries themselves that I’ve already transcribed, I have a stack of letters he wrote back home during the same time period. I’ve now finally started transcribing the letters, which could conceivably amount to more text than the diaries. 103 words.
• Spambiel: La Mort d’Spam. 2004-03-26 9:35 PM.
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  Cynthia is in Blacksburg visiting a friend, so I have the house to myself until Saturday evening. Since I am a rather large party animal, I have decided to use this time to write a Spam Blocker program so I don’t have to buy one. So far, I have successfully written code to examine messages on a POP3 server, decide which ones are spam, and forward them to another (or the same) email address with a modified subject line for easy filtering by Outlook Express. 208 words.
• It’s Official!. 2004-03-31 8:30 PM.
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  […][…]The incorporation papers are in! It’s a great day for democracy and the American way. Now I can start buying up television and radio stations, baseball teams, and start my own cable network! 33 words.

April, 2004

• Discography Online. 2004-04-02 4:06 PM.
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  Those who have only known me since 2001 may be surprised to find out that composing and recording music has been (one) hobby of mine since high school. (Even if you did know me before then, you still might be surprised since I don’t really advertise this too much.) This week I was inspired to put together a definitive “discography” of all the music I’ve recorded over the years, which you can find at the link below, along with a handful of MP3s. 85 words.
• Google Ranking. 2004-04-04 3:41 PM.
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  Ye Gods. I just did a Google search for “Krehbiel” and my home page didn’t show up until the 23rd page! So then I search for “Tom Krehbiel” and I don’t show up until the 60th page! 93 words.
• Updated UVTEK Site. 2004-04-05 9:04 PM.
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  The new look for the UVTEK Software site is now online, which is one of the last steps in this madcap software adventure. Defector 1.0 should be released “real soon now.” 33 words.
• Defector Launch. 2004-04-11 10:21 AM.
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  Saturday, April 10, 2004 saw the official release of Defector 1.0. The fanfare and majesty of the event was unprecedented in the history of UVTEK Software. Throngs of people turned out for the parade. 120 words.
• Summary of The President’s Speech. 2004-04-13 10:04 PM.
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  I don’t normally get into politics, but in case anyone missed it, here is a summary of President Bush’s news conference tonight. 785 words.
• Premonition. 2004-04-20 3:02 AM.
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  I hereby predict that the next two weeks at Cerebral Locomotion will be as bad or worse than the previous record-holding worst week at Cerebral Locomotion. 47 words.
• The madness keeps going, and going, and going…. 2004-04-20 5:28 PM.
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  The weeks leading up to a workshop are some of the most chaotic and panicked times in the life of Gulag 727, and this time is proving to be no exception. In this case, the workshop begins on May 6 in Texas, near The Alamo (how’s that for ironic). All the usual elements for extremely elevated blood pressure levels are in place, only they seem even more magnified than usual: Too many projects to finish at once, inability to decide on final project goals, lowered nicotine levels, excess shipping leftover from the recent major upgrade, disgruntled employees, disgruntled customers, clueless supervisors. 513 words.
• New Meat. 2004-04-21 3:25 PM.
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  I didn’t mention this, but one of the salespeople was fired about a month ago. It was a very clandestine operation. He was there when I left on Thursday, he was there when everyone else left on Friday, he was gone on Monday–his desk was clean and his business cards were missing. 252 words.
• Thursday at the Gulag. 2004-04-22 3:27 PM.
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  Normally Thursdays are a happy day for me, since I don’t have to work on Friday. But of course Julio asked me to work on Friday because we were in such a crunch for time and it all had to be done by um May 4. (Yes, today is April 22 and most of my work is done.) I told him that I currently wouldn’t have much of anything to do if I came in Friday. 193 words.
• Friday at the Gulag. 2004-04-24 12:33 PM.
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  Friday started out fairly well, then everything starting going to hell in the afternoon. I forgot about a major feature I had to add, I ran into a major limitation in VB6 that was a pain to work around, I kept finding annoying bugs while I was trying to use my software, and Julio kept me on the phone for an hour adding more things for me to do and change at the last minute. It was a bit frustrating as I had to leave with a bunch of stuff left unfinished. 94 words.

May, 2004

• Elmer Revisited. 2004-05-13 8:15 PM.
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  I’ve closed the book on another significant surge of work on preserving Elmer H. Krehbiel’s World War I diaries and letters. I have now transcribed all the letters, which amounted to more than twice as much text as the diaries, and the resulting combination of diaries and letters is over 75,000 words long. Printed on one side of 24# paper, it amounts to about 140 pages, and a stack about an inch tall. 242 words.
• New Release. 2004-05-25 8:39 PM.
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  I just released Replica 1.4, a, ahem, “maintenance upgrade.” 61 words.
• There’s No Accounting For Cows. 2004-05-27 8:28 PM.
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  Cynthia is away helping a friend in Blacksburg until Saturday, so I am once again left in miserable solitude. As if that weren’t bad enough, I have to work tomorrow (a day I normally don’t have to work), reducing a potential 4-day weekend to a mere 3-day weekend. It sucks! 228 words.

June, 2004

• In Case You Didn’t Know. 2004-06-08 3:14 AM.
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  I may have neglected to say this before, but Visual Basic 6 sucks. Period. 72 words.
• Superiority Rules. 2004-06-09 4:45 PM.
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  Arg. It’s quite frustrating to sit idly by while Julio mangles a multimedia project. Today he proudly declared to me, with the same bubbling pride that a toddler must feel after first discovering how to walk by himself, that he had cleverly deduced that his $3.99 audio card was the source of all the hissing he heard in his digital audio. 189 words.
• Busy Weekend. 2004-06-14 5:07 PM.
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  ‘Twas a busy weekend here at Krehbiel Central. Saturday I finally got around to doing a bunch of miscellaneous housework like putting a rubber gizmo on the bottom of the utility room door and adding more weather stripping to the sliding door. Then I noticed one of the attic vents was not spinning like it was supposed to, so I climbed onto the roof and fixed it, and cleaned out the one piece of gutter on the back porch. 243 words.
• Miscellaneous. 2004-06-15 7:05 PM.
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  I’m sitting here waiting for Cynthia to get home so we can eat, so I thought I’d write some fascinating drivel on my page. 204 words.
• Fun with Search Engines. 2004-06-20 10:45 AM.
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  I was looking at my web logs this morning and I noticed that someone had accessed an old Nova Design site design I had been working on ages ago and never deleted. Well it turns out they got there from a Yahoo search engine. So I searched on Yahoo for “Nova Design” and sure enough, there’s my old page at about #6 on the list. 71 words.
• New Pictures Available. 2004-06-21 9:43 PM.
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  Here are some new pictures that I finally got around to posting. Yes, I’ll admit it is partially a test of my vastly improved picture gallery software. 31 words.
• A Moment, Please. 2004-06-24 9:29 PM.
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  I must take a moment and brag about the cool software I am currently working on. 262 words.
• One More Thing. 2004-06-24 9:37 PM.
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  Tonight Cynthia showed me some clinical reports from a school evaluation on our nephew, and I found myself having a very odd reaction to them. At work, one of the things I’ve recently worked on is a narrative report for our cognitive testing software, and, at the time, I thought it was just a bunch of gobble-de-gook (that is a highly technical term). Most of the time I work in a complete vacuum, and I have absolutely no earthly idea who is using the software I write, or what they might use it for, or what any of the competition looks like. 131 words.
• DIBs and BitBlts. 2004-06-29 10:53 PM.
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  This won’t mean anything to most everyone, but tonight I revised the internal workings of my image processing engine so that it uses Win32.CreateDIBSection to allocate the pixel storage. This should not only increase the speed of rendering the data onto Win32 displays, but it should also decrease the memory usage considerably. You can now BitBlt() directly from my Nip bitmaps onto a Windows DC! 102 words.

July, 2004

• Blog Protected!. 2004-07-06 9:00 PM.
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  To protect my site from the swarms of hackers that try to break into it and steal my sensitive data on a daily basis, I’ve implemented some long-awaited protective measures to keep people from inserting malicious script code into their comments. 76 words.
• A Fascinating Article. 2004-07-07 9:37 PM.
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  […]This article really serves no purpose except to test some new database features I added tonight. If you’re wondering, each news article now has an optional picture and link reference, which makes administration a lot easier. 243 words.
• A Happy Day. 2004-07-08 1:59 PM.
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  Today in the what-the-fuck-ever department, we have this new item: Julio was being a GIANT FLAMING ASS PICKLE this afternoon. I’ve spent the last 3 days TRYING to get a release put together, per HIS request, and he’s done absolutely EVERYTHING to prevent me from doing it. What tricks does he pull from his pickled buttocks today? 268 words.
• Pictures Updated. 2004-07-10 9:57 AM.
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  I’ve updated all the picture galleries on the left using the newest version of my Galleria program. 54 words.
• Deadwood Gone. 2004-07-11 9:04 AM.
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  I finally got around to cleaning out the deadwood from my site. I stripped everything out of the old Nova Design pages. Now if people should stumble upon them in a search engine they’ll get links to the real Nova Design and links to here. 73 words.
• Account Settings Implemented. 2004-07-11 11:13 AM.
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  I finally added the ability to modify user account settings. 36 words.
• Change Log. 2004-07-11 9:20 PM.
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  I just created a “change log” for all the tasks I’ve accomplished since the first release of Defector. It almost looks like I’ve done something productive! I have some hope of making this a regularly updated item on the site. 43 words.
• Slideshows Ahoy. 2004-07-12 10:46 PM.
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  If you are the kind of person who obsessively clicks links you’ve already seen many times before, you may have already noticed that there is a new feature now available in the pictures, thanks to a helpful suggestion from Cynthia. If you are the type of person who is not willing to look for things on your own, I’ll just tell you that there is now a slideshow link on all my picture galleries. It requires a Javascript-enabled browser, of course, but if you don’t have one of those then you are disasterously behind on the technology curve and probably can’t even read this, since you would still be speaking Latin and probably be wearing a toga. 194 words.
• Buttons Ahoy. 2004-07-13 11:44 PM.
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  Okay, I couldn’t leave well enough alone, so tonight I made a bunch of buttons to replace the text links in my gallery pages. It was a surprisingly tedious task to do the highlighting when you roll the mouse over the buttons. And I won’t even go into how frustrating it was to get the play/pause button graphics to work right. 157 words.
• The Continuing Saga…. 2004-07-14 10:58 PM.
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  I believe I’ve solved all of the current slideshow problems. The newest updates are in the “Ashland Parade,” “Lakeside Flowers,” and “Chincoteague” picture galleries. 57 words.
• Fascinating New Material. 2004-07-16 3:44 PM.
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  Who can spot the new link over there on the left? The first one who does gets… uh… to read it first. 22 words.
• Picasa ‘n’ Ninjas. 2004-07-16 9:40 PM.
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  I downloaded that Picasa thing by Google today. My heart stuck in my throat for a moment before I realized it’s just a glorified picture viewer. But nevertheless it’s pretty slick. 110 words.
• July is a Wrap. 2004-07-31 2:40 PM.
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  Here are some pictures from the exciting month of July. Pictures from July 13 words.

August, 2004

• One Year Later. 2004-08-01 2:15 PM.
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  Well, today is the first offical day of “Cousin Camp at Forest Brook.” This is an event that brings together a large number of nieces and nephews and other miscellaneous young folk at our house for the week. (Yes, you read that right, the entire week.) I have just finished the last-minute preparations (ie., the honey-do list of cleaning tasks) and am now sitting down for a quiet moment before things get, um, campy. 143 words.
• Day 1 Report. 2004-08-01 8:58 PM.
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  It is nearing the end of the opening day at Camp Forest Brook. The kids arrived around 5 o’clock. 178 words.
• Day 2 Report. 2004-08-02 8:58 PM.
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  Mattie triumphantly returned this morning at the ungodly hour of 7:30 for another grueling day of camp. The other kids, too, were awake at the aforementioned ungodly hour, if not before. 264 words.
• Day 3 Report. 2004-08-03 8:33 PM.
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  Here’s the wrap-up on day 3: (Only 3??) 305 words.
• Day 4 Report. 2004-08-04 8:13 PM.
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  There isn’t much to report about day 4 since Cynthia hasn’t called or left a message for her poor, neglected, worried, forgotten husband yet. 43 words.
• Day 5 Report. 2004-08-06 6:42 PM.
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  I got a little behind on the reporting but I’ll now bombard you with information. 202 words.
• Day 6 Report. 2004-08-06 6:56 PM.
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  Today isn’t really over yet but I suspect that everyone will be too tired to do much else when they get back. 185 words.
• Day 7 Report. 2004-08-08 9:50 PM.
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  The final day of Cousin Camp dawned at approximately dawn. The cooking and cleanup work began soon after. The mission: Get the house ready for the mob of people arriving at 11:00 for Jordan’s birthday party. 457 words.
• On Another Note. 2004-08-08 9:54 PM.
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  The !@#$!@3 !@#$!@#4 !@#$$@!!@# that owned uvtek.com RENEWED IT UNTIL 2013!! !@#$!@ !@#$!@#$ !@#$. And !@#$!@# !@#$!@#$. 34 words.
• Odd Thomas. 2004-08-08 10:21 PM.
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  Sometime during the week of Cousin Camp, I finished Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz. I saw this book at a K-Mart one day and thought it sounded kind of interesting after reading the jacket, and then later at the Green Valley Book Fair I picked up a copy of the hardcover for like $7. 274 words.
• Gaston and Me. 2004-08-31 9:54 AM.
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  It took me about 4 hours and 45 minutes to get home last night. I happened to reset my odometer before the trip. Total mileage on the odometer when I got back: 16.0. 111 words.

September, 2004

• Recent Events. 2004-09-21 6:07 PM.
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  I haven’t written much here lately because I’ve been preoccupied with, of all things, Celtic arts and crafts. During my vacation from work I got pretty involved in a book on Celtic knotwork. I find it a fascinating form of art because it’s both scientific and creative. 140 words.
• Imminent uvtek.net Server Move. 2004-09-26 4:35 PM.
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  I am hopeful that I will be able to move uvtek.net from Communitech.net to Omnis Network on or about October 2nd. Keep your fingers crossed! 124 words.
• Essays Gone. 2004-09-26 10:32 PM.
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  I took the liberty of removing the “Essays” sections because, well, I never write anything there and it’s a pain to maintain it in the news desk application. So, screw it. 68 words.

October, 2004

• Surprise!. 2004-10-03 8:43 PM.
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  You may be surprised to note that uvtek.net is still in the same place. (You may not have noted this at all, but it’s true.) That’s because I decided it would be better to wait until around November 1 to move the server, because it’s already been paid through the end of November. That way, if there are any problems on the new server, I can switch it back to the old server within the 30-day money-back-guarantee period. 78 words.
• Friday, Part 1. 2004-10-09 10:06 AM.
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  It may be useful to deconstruct the events of this past Friday, in the event that I should suddenly go on a murderous rampage at my place of employment sometime in the coming weeks. 965 words.
• Friday, Part 2. 2004-10-10 6:38 PM.
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  I had planned to write long saga about Friday, but now it’s Sunday night and I don’t really want to think about it anymore. So this is an abbreviated rendition. 715 words.
• Thursday. 2004-10-21 4:56 PM.
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  Yes, it’s crunch time again (still). 141 words.
• Bruce Hornsby. 2004-10-21 8:45 PM.
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  Cynthia and I went to see Bruce Hornsby at the Carpenter Center (otherwise known as, the Theater Amid Massive Destruction) Saturday night. It was quite cool. Except for the drunk women beside us screaming “woooooooo” during every quiet moment of every song. 130 words.

November, 2004

• Every Cloud. 2004-11-03 6:52 AM.
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  The fate of the world rests in the hands of… Ohio? 54 words.
• New Look. 2004-11-04 11:53 PM.
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  Something that’s been on my web page “todo” list for ages is spiffing up the article title bars. Tonight the dream has become reality. They are, in fact, spiffier. 76 words.
• Election Thoughts. 2004-11-05 12:53 AM.
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  Again, I don’t normally get into politics, so I apologize for this diversion. (Warning: Obscure reference ahead.) Most of the time you can find me working diligently for the Voter Apathy Party. (“Now here’s a party I can get excited about. 453 words.
• Weekend News. 2004-11-07 8:37 PM.
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  We had the niece and nephew over again this weekend. We went to Pocahontas Park to canoe yesterday. Unfortunately, we didn’t realize that the canoe rentals were shut down for the season. 88 words.
• More New Looks. 2004-11-07 9:10 PM.
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  I’ve been working toward making the “look and feel” of my Blog application more customizable. 77 words.
• Even More New Looks. 2004-11-08 9:32 PM.
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  No, I haven’t yet found a look I’m happy with, and I vow to continue changing everything around until I like it again, or until I get sick of it completely. 31 words.
• Long Live The Workshop. 2004-11-09 4:42 PM.
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  The workshop is over. Only one crashing bug attributable to me was found. It was, of course, a completely unpredictable bug caused by a corrupt file on Julio’s laptop. 169 words.
• Boycott In Progress. 2004-11-10 6:01 PM.
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  It has come to my attention that Flower Depot in Ashland has screwed us over, so I thought I should warn all of the loyal readers of my site. 117 words.
• 14 Episodes of Kingdom Hospital, Stat. 2004-11-10 11:09 PM.
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  We finished watching Kingdom Hospital on DVD tonight. Overall it was pretty good but I think the 14 episodes could have easily been shrunk down to 4 or 5. I guess they were hoping for an X-Files type of series where half the episodes don’t have anything to do with the basic story arc. 186 words.
• Under Construction. 2004-11-11 9:05 PM.
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  I’m in the process of updating the code that runs my blog, so it may or may not work for a while. 22 words.
• Moving…. 2004-11-12 4:20 PM.
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  I sent in the request to move uvtek.net this morning, but so far it’s still here. 21 words.
• Auctioning Aladdin. 2004-11-12 10:59 PM.
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  […]I know my server may get yanked out from under me at any moment, but I just had to write something about this. 289 words.
• Fax0red. 2004-11-13 8:21 AM.
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  I am wondering if our fax machine is broken, because I faxed the appropriate papers to the new Internet provider twice yesterday but the status on their web page still says “awaiting faxed papers.” I recall now that Cynthia mentioned she had problems faxing out resumes a while back, too. I suppose it’s reasonable to expect that, after 10+ years, a fax machine might develop some problems. 98 words.
• Faxed. 2004-11-13 9:45 AM.
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  Wow, that only took an hour and 20 minutes. I rock! 104 words.
• Virtual Moving Day. 2004-11-17 9:21 PM.
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  According to the Powers That Be, uvtek.net will move on November 20th. 30 words.
• Non-Frames Experiment. 2004-11-17 9:28 PM.
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  I’m experimenting with a non-frames based page, so there may be some weird stuff happening for a bit. 22 words.
• Electronic Arse-Pirates. 2004-11-19 7:42 PM.
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  I read an interesting article on Slashdot this evening which makes me a) thankful I never aspired to get involved in the game programming industry and b) likely to boycott purchasing any “big name company” games from now on. (By boycott, of course, I mean pirate.) 192 words.

December, 2004

• Back!. 2004-12-06 10:43 PM.
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  Naturally, my new web host’s database server crashed and their backup procedure was faulty, so they lost a couple of my last news articles. Tragic, but survivable. 89 words.
• Case Closed. 2004-12-08 3:16 AM.
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  Went to “the doc” (which is generic for any doctor, but in this case means a urologist) today to find out why I’m still having “urgency” issues and a slight burning sensation. I already suspected that I was probably on the verge of developing a bladder infection from the last kidney stone episode and I probably just needed some antibiotics. Cynthia tried to get someone to write a prescription over the phone but they wanted to see me first. 191 words.
• Threaded Discussions. 2004-12-11 11:53 PM.
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  Today I have extended the capabilities of the news engine to support “threaded” discussions. That is, a heirarchical structure where you can reply to any article, and reply to the replies, and so on. This is the basis of the proverbial “discussion group” found on so many web sites these days. 90 words.
• Old Times. 2004-12-12 4:09 AM.
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  Just so you know, the time on any article that I posted before moving to the new server (around the end of November) will be off by about 5 or 6 hours. 82 words.
• Weekend News. 2004-12-13 1:52 AM.
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  I don’t recall if I’ve mentioned this here yet, but Cynthia is now playing at Emmanuel Church at Brook Hill, so she is happy to be back in an Episcopal church. (Last year was Lutheran church hell.) This is her first church job with a real pipe organ, too! 329 words.
• Christmas Grumpiness. 2004-12-14 12:57 PM.
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  Well, it’s Christmas time again (ahem, at least for the uninformed) and you know what that means: Let’s play shame the neighborhood with enough lights you can probably see them from orbit! Yes, our neighbors have once again installed more lights per square foot than you can find in downtown Las Vegas. And even more importantly, they are all perfectly aligned and symmetrically organized. 175 words.
• New York, Here We Come!. 2004-12-15 3:33 AM.
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  I actually got the week between Christmas and New Year’s off from work, so Cynthia and I are packing up and heading to New York for a well-deserved vacation from this backwater ‘burg. 33 words.
• Napster Reborn. 2004-12-16 4:34 AM.
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  So after listening to EnergyX for a while I collected a list of cool songs I wanted. 371 words.
• Menu Fixed. 2004-12-18 2:23 AM.
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  I’m not precisely sure what happened, but tonight I discovered my main menu was all messed up. 48 words.
• Weekend Notes. 2004-12-19 11:32 PM.
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  We picked up our train tickets to New York yesterday! While surfing the web (for something completely unrelated), I came across something that I found most highly entertaining. If you go to the URL http://www.kid-coloring-page-online.com/history-of-crayola-crayons, you will find a list of resources and links on the “history of the crayola crayon.” Now if you scroll about 3/4 of the way down this list, you will find a link to a site called “Crayola Clan history.” This links to the very same Crayola Clan history found on this site! Har-har. Hee-hee. Anyway, I think it’s the funniest thing ever. Imagine all the young impressionable kids looking for information about crayola crayons and finding the Crayola Clan history. “Mommy, what’s a frag? Why did the nice crayons shoot all those other people?” 287 words.
• Crayola History Added. 2004-12-20 12:04 AM.
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  You’ve probably noticed this already, especially if you get email updates about the site, but I’m adding the Crayola History to a blog section. 35 words.
• Christmas Survived. 2004-12-27 2:48 AM.
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  […]Christmas here had the usual assortment of stress and, well, more stress, but we survived the ordeal relatively intact. 51 words.