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Spend your stimulus money wisely!
Alligator skin boots for her: $600, Playstation 3 with Call of Duty 4 for him: $550, Having your unborn grandchildren foot the bill: Priceless. Today I got the same letter from the IRS that some 120 million other Americans received, informing me that in the not-so-distant future my wife and I will be honored with […]
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Army Strong*
I’m no peacenik, and my best guess at the truth is that war is sometimes a neccesary evil forced upon a nation by outside circumstance. If North Korea, for example, ever got ICBMs, I’d probably support the idea that maybe we should do something about it besides worry. Having said that, I’m a bit skeptical […]
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A cautionary tale for Vista users with automatic updates turned on
Last night I left a long computation running on my Microsft Windows Vista machine at work. When I came in the next day, I found my computer restarted. It was just happily sitting there, blank faced, waiting innocently for me to do something as if nothing had happened. A little too innocently, if you ask […]