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the only thing worse than waiting for a page to load while my modem lights blink wildly, is waiting while they're not blinking.

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sat down to throw together a quick task list for the rest of the week. after 2 minutes, it has 37 items on it. none are billable. d'oh!

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home from visiting family in buffalo, jumped right into shoveling 10 inches of "don't have to worry about all the christmas cookies i ate."

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Am i the only one who finds these lilliput-head Microsoft commercials to be greatly disturbing?

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i've found an XM/Sirius channel ("Lithium") that sounds exactly like (most of) my CD collection (and probably @adarowski's too)

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the parts of the driveway that i cleared of ice warmed up, snow blew over, thawed, and froze again. already record level of annual SnowFail.

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today's forecast: cloudy, chance of suck. high near ridiculous.

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first shoveling attempt thwarted by snowburst. second, much more successful. may yet get the sun to melt the ice layer underneath.

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Apple idea: mini display port to DVI with a cable longer than two inches.

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Do any of my peeps speak Japanese? Would anyone be offended if i named my new computer "kira bako?"

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Homeopathic cure for shoveler's back: elixir of barley malt and hops, boiled, fermented, chilled. Repeat dosage until relief is experienced.

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More than a dozen turkeys wandering through the n'hood today. i will crack a window and listen, to see if, in fact, they are speaking jive.

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Ah, now we've got sleet and freezing rain. Still 27F outside.

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i spoke a bit too soon - sleet hitting the east side while light snow still blows in from the Northwest. Weird.

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Switched over to sleet in Rindge. We were getting light snow for most of the morning so far.

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i'm using reverse-psychology on this storm. i'm planning activities for tomorrow that don't require electricity.

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hah 4chan folks have hijacked macrumorslive. lulz.

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bummer i just bought iLife '08. hope there's an upgrade path.

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Bank of America defaults your credit card payment date not to the current day, but to the due date. would anyone prefer that?

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so, i wake up at 4:30 ready to be productive the day AFTER a big project ships. internal projects will be greatly progressed today.

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ELO has a pre-built linux driver for their touchscreens. badass.

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today disappeared in a blur of alternating development, source management, and correspondence. i used to like this when i worked in a cube.

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twitter blog explains the phishing - originates from phony DM emails: http://tinyurl.com/88mas4

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to stop the flurry of rumors about my weight, i'm going to say more than i want to: i like pie. okay? are you happy now?

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what do i make when i'm bored? i give you: the YouTube Dog ringtone. http://tinyurl.com/9ftwn4

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WordPress should just rename the "Publish" button to the "You Forgot to add Categories/Tags" button.

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and just like that, my "free"morning dissolved. oh well, not going to balk at billable time. :)

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how much overhead is eaten by these "This file was downloaded on..." warnings + data? it even remembers when i've copied files to shares.

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nothing pressing in my client work queue this morning. overwhelmed with possibilities to put a few hours towards internal projects.

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this was interesting: when you hear the snowplow BACKING down your street, there's some ugly stuff out there.

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writing documentation on some javascript i wrote for developers in another country that i'll never speak to. no pressure.

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Was a nice peaceful day. Currently being capped off by a Lagunitas RED. Very nice finish.

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perhaps the thing i trust least about IE6, is that it seems to hate cookies. who should hate cookies? nobody. that's who.

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my two new favorite TextMate tricks: Command-Option-. (insert closing tag) and Ctrl-Shift-D (duplicate line)

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ended up ordering memory from Other World Computing. they had the lowest price i found, and have a 'trade in' program for your old mem.

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spam subject: "Now you don't have to keep your dimensions in big disguise." really? i put dimensions on their own layer in AutoCad.

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dealram doesn't seem to have PC3-8500 SO-DIMMs. where do the new cool kids shop for modern laptop memory?

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minimum temp of -2.2F last night. looking forward to it hitting 15F this afternoon so i can go knock out the drifts in the driveway.

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i began 2008 by drinking a beer after shoveling snow. it's ending about the same. different beer. different snow. different me? maybe.

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shoveling was easy, it was nice and fluffy. mission accomplished. oh, except now the driveway has drifted back over completely. oh well.

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Today has been: breakfast, dev, tv, dev, shovel, shower, beer. Tonight will be: dinner, beer, dev, beer, dev, beer, beer, 2009! beer. zzz.

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wow, dialup apple store fail. takes so long to load, it thinks i'm idle, starts loading storechat, which adds huge JS payload.

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trying out working on my macbook pro with all my windows inside a 1280x800 box instead of the full 1440x900. (mac folks will figure it out)

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no more coffee until after Whatever, Martha! or this MacBook Pro is history.

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working from couch, taking in some televised junk food in the form of Whatever! Martha.

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6-10" of snow today (up here in the Monadnocks), then lows around zero with -20 windchill tonight. @momnature has a present: it's frostbite!

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has anyone else noticed that @valleywag's wag has lately had little to do with the valley?

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this project has taught me quite a bit about zip and area codes. namely: i hate dealing with zip and area codes.

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i wonder who on the Red Bull product development team had the brilliant idea to make its color precisely mimic that of a hearty urine sample

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Where's the solace you find, at the bottom of your mind? (it's Buffalo Tom day at SQUAREDESIGN)

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