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Get Firefox

I’m planning to make some updates to the layout of my site soon, and I’m enlisting the help of a few friends. One of them just asked me if my site needs to support IE6. Without thinking I said no, because I know what a nightmare it is to code/develop for that browser. After making [...]

Important Degree Candidate Information

From: UT Registrar’s Office To: Chris Leonard Date: Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:03pm Subject: Important Degree Candidate Information AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO SPRING 2009 DEGREE CANDIDATES Our records indicate that you are a degree candidate for graduation at the conclusion of this semester. Please review the following information that appears on your record and [...]

Game Face

I just came across a video that shows the faces of teens as they’re playing video games. That’s pretty interesting to me. Is the kid playing GTA alive??

openSUSE

Last month I installed Ubuntu on an old laptop, and it worked great for me. Better than expected, by a decent margin. I don’t like the orange theme. Heresy, I know. I LOVE orange, burnt orange is one of my favorite colors. But the no matter what I tried, I could not get Gnome to [...]

Sleep

A few weeks ago I wrote about my pinched nerve, and even a subsequent trip to the doctor. Sigh, the pain has continued. During the day I’m moving around enough that its annoying but tolerable. Unfortunately, the most uncomfortable position is laying down. By now you can see the direction this is heading. Its difficult [...]

The Green Letters

One of my coworkers, Mark Simoneau, was in a band called the Green Letters for a few years, but they broke up a year and a half ago. Liz and I also know the lead singer (Tom Bubb) and his family. Tom’s sister Sarah was Liz’ room mate for a few years. And over the [...]

Pinched Nerve

Early Friday morning I was laying in bed, in that kind of half asleep, half awake state. I moved to stretch out my arms over my head, just like I’ve done a million times before. Before I even got my arms stretched straight, a surge of pain shot up from my shoulder to my hand [...]

Ordering Breakfast

Customer: “I’d like to have scrambled eggs with bacon.” Waitress: “Okay, and would you like bacon or sausage with that?” Customer:

Bainbridge

We’re in Washington this weekend to celebrate marriage with our friends Joe & Blythe. We flew into Seattle on Thursday morning, and we are having a great time. When we arrived we went straight to the Pike Place Market. We got lunch at a deli that overlooks the bay, then walked through the market to [...]

Correction, Spurs By 11

They did it. The Hornets came out strong. In fact, they held the lead until the third quarter. Once the Spurs took the lead the Hornets never recovered, it looked like they ran out of steam. We looked like a playoff team, everyone on the floor was contributing. We had five players earning double digit [...]