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March, 2005

The Aliens Came For Coffee. 2005-03-21 4:16 AM.
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It occurred to me why I find so few things to write here. Most of the things I would be inclined to write about are off-limits because people I know might read the page. 292 words.

September, 2005

Cats, Keyboards, and Crime-Fighting Grannies. 2005-09-15 12:22 AM.
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Here are some more interesting stories you may have missed in the swirl of, how shall I put it… crap… in the mainstream media. 157 words.

November, 2005

Influential Songs of My Childhood. 2005-11-29 5:00 PM.
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On the way into work this morning, I heard The Logical Song by Supertramp on 98.9 Liberty. Every time I hear this song, it immediately transports me back to my childhood (c. age 10), so I thought I would start a new series of web articles entitled, “Influential Songs of My Childhood.” This is the first installment in a series of X articles (where 1 £ X £ ¥) where I will delve into the reasons why some songs have struck a particularly resonant chord with me for well over 20 years. 536 words.

December, 2005

Influential Songs of My Childhood, Part 2. 2005-12-06 4:31 PM.
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Believe it or not, I heard (and didn’t turn off!) the Charlie Daniels Band’s The Devil Went Down To Georgia this morning on the way to work. It struck me that this was another Influential Song From My Childhood, though admittedly not of the same caliber as the last one. I guess this would be more of a Song I Remember From My Childhood. 477 words.

January, 2006

Green Pigs and Cell Records. 2006-01-13 3:50 PM.
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There’s nothing really to snipe at this morning, so I’ll have to get creative. 195 words.
Garbage Time. 2006-01-13 7:48 PM.
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Sitting here watching the clock in the work week’s equivalent of “garbage time” (that portion of a football game after which the losing team has given up any hope of winning the game), I’m reminded that in my last job, the boss frequently liked to use this time–yes, the final hour of the final day of the work week–to brainstorm, go over status reports, and plan for the future. It gives one some perspective. While it might seem that watching the second hand tick by on a clock might cause some resentment or bad feelings, I can honestly say: It could be a lot worse. 105 words.
Rainy Commute. 2006-01-18 2:40 PM.
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There’s nothing quite like starting your workday by driving on Interstate 95 for a half hour in the rain. Let’s see if I can paint a picture for you. You can see that there are cars around you, but you can’t quite make out how far away they are or how fast they’re going. 164 words.
Michael Moore vs. The Whale. 2006-01-20 6:58 PM.
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What do Osama bin Laden, Michael Moore, Chris Matthews, and a whale all have in common? They are all hot topics in the blogosphere today. 297 words.

February, 2006

Tuesday Smorgasbord. 2006-02-21 8:12 PM.
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A smorgasbord of topics today as I sit here in agonizing pain from a strained neck muscle. 591 words.
Thursday Blogworld Wrapup. 2006-02-23 6:30 PM.
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Yesterday Blogworld was busy taking sides on the Dubai Port Sale. 85 words.
Friday Smorgasbord. 2006-02-24 8:44 PM.
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No one story has jumped out at me today, so here’s a link-fest of random cultural interests. 362 words.
Monday Smorgasbord, Feb 27. 2006-02-27 8:28 PM.
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Thomas Lifson at American Thinker writes about an Islamic domination angle that I hadn’t heard before: The Islamist Attack on Intellectual Property. A world without intellectual property sounds pretty bleak, and not just because my whole career is based on it. Wait, nevermind… it is because my whole career is based on it. 262 words.
Tuesday Smogasbord – Feb 28. 2006-02-28 9:01 PM.
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Winner of today’s most disturbing look into the life of a typical Palestinian, via. Little Green Footballs: A Mother from Hell. This woman is actually disappointed that her daughter failed to become a suicide bomber (she was caught before her bomb vest went off). 293 words.

March, 2006

The War Against Introverts. 2006-03-16 8:58 PM.
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Part 4 in a Special 4-Part Series: Random Thoughts Of Thursday 154 words.

April, 2006

Something For Everyone. 2006-04-11 6:07 PM.
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No matter which side of the political fence you’re on, you’ll find something to like in this post! 74 words.
Move Along, Nothing To See Here. 2006-04-27 10:56 PM.
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Today I’m too lazy to write about anything. Except I just watched some of NBC Nightly News About New Orleans For Dummies, and found it pretty silly overall. I’m pretty sure NBC doesn’t even send reporters anywhere but New Orleans anymore. 105 words.

May, 2006

Slow News Week. 2006-05-12 5:39 PM.
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There is shockingly little to write about. Something big and controversial happened on American Idol the other night, but unfortunately, it was not a large explosion killing everyone involved, so I won’t be exploring that here. 80 words.

June, 2006

National I Don\’t Feel Like Blogging Day. 2006-06-05 6:10 PM.
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I’m officially designating today, “National I Don’t Feel Like Blogging Day.” There’s not much new going on anyway. 46 words.
It’s The End Of The World…. 2006-06-06 7:51 PM.
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Since I have the good fortune to be working with a SQL query that takes about 15 minutes to execute, I have some spare writing time today. Sadly, just like yesterday, there is nothing particularly interesting to write about. Today’s trend in blogosphere conversation: D-Day and End Times. 200 words.
The Dullest Of Blog Entries. 2006-06-30 6:27 PM.
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They say the difference between a “real writer” and a “struggling writer” is in their ability to write when they don’t feel like writing. So in that spirit, I am now writing a blog entry even though I don’t particularly feel like it and there is nothing particularly interesting to write about. 250 words.

July, 2006

Thursday\’s Random Links That Don\’t Suck. 2006-07-07 1:08 AM.
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Let’s face it: 99.9% of the hyperlinks you follow on the Internet lead to content that sucks. To combat this phenomenon, I’m presenting a few topical links that don’t suck. 79 words.
Friday’s Random Links That Don’t Suck. 2006-07-07 7:51 PM.
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Yeah, I know, I’m being lazy today. 91 words.
Monday’s Informative Links. 2006-07-10 7:56 PM.
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Another in my new series of lazy blogging link-fests, otherwise known as “the things I didn’t have anything to add to.” Feel free to skip if you don’t care what I think is informative reading. 123 words.
Wednesday’s Informative Links. 2006-07-12 5:47 PM.
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I actually collected these yesterday and forgot to post them. 125 words.
Thursday’s Informative Links. 2006-07-13 7:55 PM.
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Oh, lovely: Israel: Hezbollah plans to move abducted IDF soldiers to Iran. And: Hezbollah escalates the war in Lebanon, launches rocket attacks in Haifa. Now Bush is giving up secret wiretapping? Specter touts deal on eavesdropping review. Have aliens replaced the president? As Israel and Lebanon meltdown, there’s progress in Iraq: Transfer of Security Responsibility in Muthanna Province. A general’s review of Gitmo: McCaffery on Guantanamo, which summarizes McCaffery’s full memo. The preceding links have been deemed “not to completely suck” by Thomas Krehbiel’s patent-pending content rating system. The system rates the relative merit of Internet content in terms of originality, non-partisanship, grammar, and educational or research value. 108 words.
Friday’s Informative Links. 2006-07-14 7:54 PM.
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Good behind-the-scenes info on Middle East happenings: Important overlooked news on latest Hezbollah attacks. It’s always fun to abuse Ann Coulter and televangelists: Jesusless: The Church of Conservatism. Is it humanly possible to be more narcissistic than this? Woman arrested after 911 call for ‘cute’ deputy. The preceding links have been deemed “not to completely suck” by Thomas Krehbiel’s patent-pending content rating system. The system rates the relative merit of Internet content in terms of originality, irony, non-partisanship, grammar, and educational or research value. 84 words.
Yesterday. 2006-07-28 2:00 PM.
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Yesterday I found basically nothing interesting in the news or blogosphere. I wrote a few paragraphs about Dude, Where’s Your Independence? but when I got home I decided not to embarass myself by posting it because it suffered from what I like to call “pointless rambling crapiness.” So today I’ll just give you the link and say I found Jarding’s attack on George Allen kind of childish. 75 words.

August, 2006

Slow Monday. 2006-08-28 2:16 PM.
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Ye gods, there’s nothing at all to write about. The Islamic Courts Union continues to take over Somalia, making them a possible future target in the war on terror. The media continues to desperately hope that a massive super-hurricane blows into New Orleans this season. 82 words.

September, 2006

A Couple Of Links. 2006-09-13 8:22 PM.
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It’s been a busy day building SSIS custom data source components, plus there’s nothing new or interesting happening in the world today, unless you’re interested in why Anna Nichole Smith’s son died. 193 words.
Bits From The News. 2006-09-14 8:22 PM.
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Links = Laziness. 199 words.

November, 2006

Tuesday Links. 2006-11-28 5:29 PM.
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I’m weary of opining, so I’m going to fall back on throwing out some links to stories that I found informative. 196 words.

December, 2006

Car Fires. 2006-12-11 6:52 PM.
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This is completely off-topic, but on the traffic report this morning I heard about another “car fire” slowing down traffic in the Richmond area. As it turned out, when I drove past the affected area, there was no fiery car to be found and traffic was completely normal, but that’s not the point here. Actually, it’s part of the point. 215 words.
The Downside Of Accountability. 2006-12-26 8:36 PM.
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You may have noticed I haven’t had much to say lately. :) The election is over, and the news is pretty much the same thing day in and day out, and the various fights between high-profile bloggers are not terribly interesting after the first 723 iterations. 202 words.

April, 2007

V Beach At Gallipoli. 2007-04-25 7:24 PM.
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Sometimes I like to go to Wikipedia and click random links until I find an interesting historical article. That probably sounds boring, but keep in mind that I’m easily entertained (especially when I’m at work behind a firewall that won’t let you browse anywhere fun). 394 words.

June, 2007

24 Season 4 Synopsis. 2007-06-03 2:57 PM.
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A writing exercise by Thomas Krehbiel. 839 words.

July, 2007

Holiday Reminder. 2007-07-03 10:23 PM.
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With National Pyromania Appreciation Day… I mean… the 4th of July coming up tomorrow during a particularly dry summer, I’d like to urge everyone to please point their primitive explosive devices away from my yard. Thank you. 37 words.

September, 2007

A Different Viewpoint On The Missing Nukes. 2007-09-07 12:28 AM.
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Having worked with federal employees, I have a slightly different take on that story about the B52 and the missing nukes: You mean they found out they were missing in ONLY 4 hours?? Congratulations on a job well done! 44 words.

November, 2007

Daylight Savings. 2007-11-06 3:05 AM.
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I just want to go on record saying that I greatly prefer the “spring forward” clock change to the “fall back” clock change. 62 words.

February, 2008

Two Space Calamity. 2008-02-06 11:52 PM.
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It’s happening. You know how HTML files always squish the two spaces after a period into one space? I’ve always hated that, since everyone knows there are supposed to be two spaces after a period. 81 words.
HowManyOfMe.com. 2008-02-16 7:27 PM.
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Heard about this nifty site on the way home from work yesterday. 41 words.

April, 2010

Mission: Earth Accomplished. 2010-04-19 12:45 AM.
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I recently finished a series of 10 pulp sci-fi books (allegedly) by L. Ron Hubbard called Mission: Earth. The books were terrible beyond belief (worse even than Dan Brown – at least Brown novels have an interesting story idea), and I wouldn’t recommend them to anyone. Wikipedia has it right: “It is frequently cited within science fiction circles as one of the worst science fiction novels ever written.” 259 words.

March, 2012

Heat Arrives. 2012-03-15 7:52 PM.
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Once again, here in Richmond, winter has turned into summer with no intervening spring. Not that it was much of a winter. Now that I think about it, winter was spring. 31 words.
How Does He Sing That High?. 2012-03-27 8:59 PM.
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Simple joys in life: When 80s hit Come On Eileen starts up on the random shuffle during the drive home. 20 words.

May, 2012

May the fourth…. 2012-05-04 2:43 PM.
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It’s Star Wars day again already?! 23 words.

July, 2012

Canine Allergies. 2012-07-08 7:17 PM.
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Poor Bella had an allergic reaction to … something … yesterday. She came in from the back yard with a bumpy head and a red belly. Very strange. After a trip to the emergency vet, she spent the rest of the day on Benadryl and steroids. 46 words.