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The War on Hannukah

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Bill O’Reilly thinks there’s a War on Christmas because people say “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas” and occasionally somewhere some genius screws up and forgets to add Christmas to a December holiday calendar. Whatever. Well, let me tell you something, Bill & friends: There’s a War on Hannukah and not only have I seen [...]

A lack of understanding

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Explain this to me, because obviously I’m missing something: A teacher, who is working in an Islamic country, has a teddy bear, and lets her class vote on a name for the teddy bear. The class, being comprised of young Muslim children who have been raised to have great love and respect for their religion [...]

Writers Guild of America on strike!

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Dedicated to my friend RJ at TVO. Fight on, Writers Guild of America! I support your efforts to ensure that you receive a piece of the action from new media sales. You deserve it! Though I’m not a major TV watcher, as a person who always wanted to write for a television show or movie, [...]

Once a Nazi, always a Nazi

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Allow me to introduce you to Paul Henss, an 85 year old immigrant from the land of beer and Nazi’s. Paul Henss was a Nazi and served in both the Hitler Youth organization when he was in his teens, and in the Waffen SS as a “dog handler”. Nazi dog handlers didn’t teach dogs to [...]

Arr mateys! Talk Like a Pirate Day returns from the deep!

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Avast mateys, it be International Talk Like a Pirate Day! In celebration o’ this holiday, we be repostin’ Cap’n Jeffrey Zeldman’s “Inappropriate Talk Like a Pirate Day remarks” , aaar! Aaaaar! Ye have cancer, Mr Finkelstein. Aaaar! Be leavin’ you, I will, and fightin’ fer custody of th’ youngins, damn yer eyes Aar! That joint [...]

The beginning of the end (of the Click Wheel)

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Last week, much to the glee of Apple fanboys like myself, Steve Jobs announced at a special event that the whole line of iPods was getting revamped. Shuffles, Nanos, and iPods all got a makeover. Plus, as an added bonus, a new iPod was added to the line up, the iPod Touch – an iPhone [...]

Oh, how it irks me so…

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I’ll admit it, small things tend to irk me quite a bit. People driving poorly, people coding poorly. Turning in “spaghetti code”, invalid xhtml or css, not turning your headlights on in a downpour. Those kinds of things. As I was driving to Starbucks to get my daily cup o’ coffee at lunch, the sky [...]

What Fox News calls headline-worthy…

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Here’s what FoxNews.com had as it’s big headline image at approximately 3:30pm (EST) on Thursday, July 19, 2007: Click for larger screen capture That’s right. “Underage Dino Sex”. It’s a front page story with a big, eye-blowing (lol!) image! Here’s a link to the article, for those who asked about it: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,289963,00.html They report. You [...]

Nope, I’m not in line for an iPhone

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I’m not in line for an iPhone, but the “gadget lust” is killing me. I don’t like AT&T, I’m locked in a two year contract with T-Mobile, and Apple has a bad history when it comes to first generation models. So, I’m waiting. I’m biding my time as I eagerly await the release of a [...]

Peer Reviews: Part II

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In the last few weeks, I’ve been pretty busy at the office. Besides the normal maintenance and development work we typically have going on, we’ve also been working on creating the rules and processes for a Peer Review, as I discussed in mid-May. In the last few weeks we’ve really made some headway, and we’ll [...]