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Quickie: 02/29/2008 2:57:24pm

Published on Friday, February 29th, 2008 at 2:57pm.

I’m going to miss having a post office/UPS/FedEx just down the hall. (...)

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Quickie: 02/29/2008 9:39:21am

Published on Friday, February 29th, 2008 at 9:39am.

I’ve been asked to look over resumes to help find my replacement. Weird. (...)

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Quickie: 02/28/2008 8:35:46pm

Published on Thursday, February 28th, 2008 at 8:36pm.

The Google Reader gadget has been wonky for weeks. (...)

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Quickie: 02/27/2008 7:32:06pm

Published on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 7:33pm.

Firing up Apple TV and jamming out is going to make this seem a lot funner than it is. (...)

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Quickie: 02/27/2008 7:31:05pm

Published on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 7:31pm.

Time to tackle the kitchen wallpaper in preparation for painting with Mom and Heather this weekend. (...)

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Quickie: 02/27/2008 9:02:13am

Published on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 9:03am.

I think it’s time to whip up a quick AppleScript that launches a number of Applications I work with instead of launching them individually everyday. (...)

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Quickie: 02/27/2008 12:04:06am

Published on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 12:06am.

I’ve read 26 books by James Patterson since I started near the end of October 2007. I doubt I had previously read that many novels in my life. (...)

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Quickie: 02/26/2008 10:10:45pm

Published on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 10:11pm.

It’s nice to have a full mouth of teeth again. (...)

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Quickie: 02/26/2008 10:39:07am

Published on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 10:40am.

Off to the dentist to get my crowns “installed”. The dental implant process has been going on for 6 months. It’ll be nice to eat on the left side of my mouth again. (...)

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Quickie: 02/26/2008 8:22:58am

Published on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 8:23am.

The Detroit Tigers have sold 44% more season tickets than last year. (...)

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Nutella

Published on Monday, February 25th, 2008 at 11:03pm.

Nutella outsells all brands of peanut butter combined worldwide! You can’t even compare Nutella to peanut butter, chocolate, or caramel. It really is that good. I’d never even heard of the stuff, but all I can thing about when I’m hungry now is, “What can I eat that I’ll be able to spread Nutella on?” (...)

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Quickie: 02/24/2008 10:03:09pm

Published on Sunday, February 24th, 2008 at 10:03pm.

Caramel Pretzel Klondike. (...)

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Quickie: 02/24/2008 9:17:51pm

Published on Sunday, February 24th, 2008 at 9:18pm.

Measuring rooms for home office deductions. (...)

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Quickie: 02/24/2008 8:18:01pm

Published on Sunday, February 24th, 2008 at 8:18pm.

Trying to get everything together for 2007 income taxes. (...)

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Quickie: 02/23/2008 3:46:12pm

Published on Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 at 3:47pm.

Apple has been pushing back their release dates on everything lately. Leopard, Apple TV update, and now iPhone SDK. Are they turning into Microsoft? (...)

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Quickie: 02/23/2008 12:47:33pm

Published on Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 at 12:47pm.

Washed my car for the first time in months. I barely recognize it. (...)

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Quickie: 02/23/2008 10:21:01am

Published on Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 at 10:21am.

Going to visit Mo today and finally meet his wife. (...)

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Quickie: 02/22/2008 9:52:41pm

Published on Friday, February 22nd, 2008 at 9:54pm.

Microwave popcorn button must be among the top inventions of all-time. (...)

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Quickie: 02/22/2008 9:45:52pm

Published on Friday, February 22nd, 2008 at 9:47pm.

Michael Clayton in HD for $4.99. (...)

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Quickie: 02/22/2008 9:30:34pm

Published on Friday, February 22nd, 2008 at 9:31pm.

Might have to test out an Apple TV movie rental tonight. (...)

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Quickie: 02/22/2008 2:30:13pm

Published on Friday, February 22nd, 2008 at 2:30pm.

I’ve been running around campus all week applying updates which make logins over a minute faster. Only a few labs left to do. (...)

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Quickie: 02/21/2008 9:33:28pm

Published on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 at 9:34pm.

Severe lack of snacks in the house. This is good and bad. (...)

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Quickie: 02/21/2008 2:15:07pm

Published on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 at 2:15pm.

My lunch desert is a wild cherry slurpee and a Cadbury orange creme egg. (...)

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Quickie: 02/20/2008 11:19:05pm

Published on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 at 11:19pm.

Took a peak at the eclipse, but there are too many trees in my backyard to get a good view through the windows and it’s too damn cold to venture outside. (...)

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Quickie: 02/19/2008 8:50:07am

Published on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 at 8:50am.

Had a good time with good friends in NC. Back to work today. (...)

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Quickie: 02/18/2008 7:06:51pm

Published on Monday, February 18th, 2008 at 7:07pm.

Made it home without any delays, but neither set of golf clubs made it. It has not been a good day! (...)

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Quickie: 02/18/2008 11:45:43am

Published on Monday, February 18th, 2008 at 11:48am.

Enterprise is screwing me on the rental car. They say I damaged under the front bumper and had to take my $500 deductible. I’m not too thrilled! (...)

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Quickie: 02/17/2008 3:16:42pm

Published on Sunday, February 17th, 2008 at 3:17pm.

Great day on the golf course. (...)

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Quickie: 02/17/2008 8:25:31am

Published on Sunday, February 17th, 2008 at 8:26am.

Caught up on feed reading as I lay in bed. (...)

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Quickie: 02/17/2008 8:02:37am

Published on Sunday, February 17th, 2008 at 8:04am.

Went to Jumper last night. Can you say sequel? (...)

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Quickie: 02/15/2008 7:58:05pm

Published on Friday, February 15th, 2008 at 7:59pm.

P.F. Chang = AWE-SOME! (...)

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Quickie: 02/15/2008 7:54:33pm

Published on Friday, February 15th, 2008 at 7:56pm.

4 beers, shot of 1800, and 2 shots of sake…its not even bar time yet. (...)

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Quickie: 02/15/2008 7:55:53am

Published on Friday, February 15th, 2008 at 7:57am.

MBS-DTW-RDU (...)

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Quickie: 02/14/2008 10:11:23pm

Published on Thursday, February 14th, 2008 at 10:12pm.

I’ll be on the golf course in less than 15 hours. (...)

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Quickie: 02/14/2008 4:06:49pm

Published on Thursday, February 14th, 2008 at 4:07pm.

Pink overload in Google Docs was a bit of a surprise! (...)

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Quickie: 02/14/2008 4:05:26pm

Published on Thursday, February 14th, 2008 at 4:06pm.

This will be the first trip in a long time where I haven’t traveled with a laptop. (...)

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Quickie: 02/14/2008 12:22:50pm

Published on Thursday, February 14th, 2008 at 12:23pm.

Getting out of work at 1:30 today so that I can pack and get everything in order around home. (...)

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Quickie: 02/13/2008 9:59:35pm

Published on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 at 10:00pm.

Way too much to get done before I leave Friday morning. Maybe the boss will let me call it a day early tomorrow. (...)

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Quickie: 02/13/2008 5:43:05pm

Published on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 at 5:43pm.

Tried to concentrate while listing to a podcast. Yeah…not happening. Back to music. (...)

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Quickie: 02/13/2008 5:32:29pm

Published on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 at 5:32pm.

Installing the Apple TV update took much longer than the download. (...)

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Quickie: 02/13/2008 12:52:46pm

Published on Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 at 12:53pm.

Roger Clemens keeps ignoring the questions and says over and over again what a saint he is. Is this hearing a joke? (...)

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Quickie: 02/12/2008 11:20:21pm

Published on Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 at 11:20pm.

Great episode of Rob & Big tonight. (...)

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Quickie: 02/12/2008 9:39:08pm

Published on Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 at 9:39pm.

Going to watch the first episode of Big Brother 9. (...)

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Quickie: 02/12/2008 5:25:41pm

Published on Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 at 5:25pm.

I’m a sucker for oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. (...)

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Quickie: 02/12/2008 1:46:51pm

Published on Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 at 1:49pm.

The glass isn’t half full or half empty…it’s filling up. (...)

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Quickie: 02/12/2008 10:07:32am

Published on Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 at 10:08am.

Just realized OH = overheard. (...)

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Quickie: 02/11/2008 8:54:41pm

Published on Monday, February 11th, 2008 at 8:55pm.

As I spend more time on the computer at home, I realize I need to move this desk away from the window. Brrr it’s cold! (...)

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Quickie: 02/11/2008 1:22:38pm

Published on Monday, February 11th, 2008 at 1:22pm.

Getting my teeth cleaned at 3. (...)

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Quickie: 02/11/2008 11:10:31am

Published on Monday, February 11th, 2008 at 11:11am.

Kind of hard to get any work done when all of the documents I need to edit are on a shared network drive which has been up and down for weeks. (...)

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Quickie: 02/11/2008 11:09:33am

Published on Monday, February 11th, 2008 at 11:10am.

Server stopped responding again, so had to put in a manual reboot request. Admin says it shouldn’t be a DDOS anymore. Hmmm… (...)

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Quickie: 02/10/2008 9:49:40am

Published on Sunday, February 10th, 2008 at 9:50am.

Sunny out, but only 4 degrees and close to -20 with the wind chill. Can’t wait to get to North Carolina on Friday! (...)

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Quickie: 02/09/2008 7:18:43pm

Published on Saturday, February 9th, 2008 at 7:19pm.

I definitely need to clean this house tomorrow. (...)

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Quickie: 02/08/2008 9:09:47pm

Published on Friday, February 8th, 2008 at 9:10pm.

I wish I could rent a movie with my Apple TV tonight. I’m in that kind of mood. (...)

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Quickie: 02/08/2008 11:03:35am

Published on Friday, February 8th, 2008 at 11:04am.

It’s might be time to ditch Google Adsense on all the sites. It’s become a non-earner. (...)

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Quickie: 02/08/2008 10:02:53am

Published on Friday, February 8th, 2008 at 10:03am.

When did Gmail’s chat add the “Sign into AIM” option? (...)

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Quickie: 02/08/2008 8:17:51am

Published on Friday, February 8th, 2008 at 8:18am.

Roads are still a mess, but where do you put all that snow? (...)

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Quickie: 02/07/2008 3:14:08pm

Published on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 at 3:14pm.

Snow plows still have not come through. It’s a good thing I don’t feel like leaving the house. (...)

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Quickie: 02/06/2008 8:54:39pm

Published on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 at 8:56pm.

I’ll definitely get some use out of the new features for spreadsheets from Google Docs. (...)

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Quickie: 02/06/2008 8:43:03pm

Published on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 at 8:45pm.

Wow do we have the snow! No end in sight until after midnight. Probably 8-10 inches so far. Accumulations up to 15 inches in some areas for this storm. I don’t see SVSU being open tomorrow. (...)

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Quickie: 02/06/2008 7:12:38pm

Published on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 at 7:13pm.

Heading out for snow blowing #2 on the driveway today. (...)

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Quickie: 02/06/2008 11:46:32am

Published on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 at 11:47am.

Upgraded all blogs to WordPress 2.3.3. (...)

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Quickie: 02/06/2008 11:31:31am

Published on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 at 11:32am.

SVSU closed at 11. We’re supposed to get up to 10 inches of snow today. (...)

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Apple Device Names

Published on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 at 10:20am.

I’m not sure why I started, but I’ve been incorporating my actual name, “Nick” into the device name for all of my Apple devices. (...)

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Quickie: 02/06/2008 10:12:28am

Published on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 at 10:13am.

Disconnected my PC last night at home. I’m now an all Apple house except for the Xbox 360. (...)

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Quickie: 02/06/2008 8:26:34am

Published on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 at 8:27am.

Duke vs. North Carolina today. #2 vs. #3. Definitely one of my sports holidays. (...)

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Quickie: 02/05/2008 9:25:43pm

Published on Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 at 9:27pm.

Weren’t oatmeal cream pies bigger than this? (...)

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Quickie: 02/05/2008 9:10:07am

Published on Tuesday, February 5th, 2008 at 9:11am.

Apple released the 16GB iPhone. No big deal. I’ve never used 80% of my 8GB. (...)

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Quickie: 02/04/2008 11:17:38pm

Published on Monday, February 4th, 2008 at 11:19pm.

The more I use Skitch, the more I realize what a cool tool it is. (...)

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WordPress Plugin: Comment Author URL Stripper

Published on Monday, February 4th, 2008 at 10:37pm.

As promised, I’ve created a plugin which removes the URL from a comment author if it contains any of the words specified in the Options screen. Too many people have been leaving comments and putting in yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc. as their web site and I got tired of editing those comments all of the time. (...)

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Quickie: 02/04/2008 10:09:10pm

Published on Monday, February 4th, 2008 at 10:12pm.

Had an Admin look at my server. I figured the trackback and comment spam attempts followed along from DreamHost, but this time it was DDoS. (...)

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Quickie: 02/04/2008 10:08:23pm

Published on Monday, February 4th, 2008 at 10:08pm.

It’s after 10, I guess I should get some dinner. (...)

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Quickie: 02/04/2008 10:00:12am

Published on Monday, February 4th, 2008 at 10:00am.

Testing auto login to Windows XP with manual login to Novell. (...)

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Quickie: 02/03/2008 10:35:29pm

Published on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 at 10:36pm.

Bill Belichick walks off the field before the game is over…you’re a class act! (...)

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Quickie: 02/03/2008 2:31:28pm

Published on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 at 2:31pm.

Shaved, Showered…Super Bowl. (...)

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Quickie: 02/03/2008 1:08:18pm

Published on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 at 1:11pm.

Why do people continually enter URLs like hotmail and yahoo as their web site when submitting comments? When I get time I’ll work on a plugin to strip these out. (...)

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Headshot

Published on Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 at 12:56pm.

While browsing through a friend’s photos from the holidays, I finally found one I liked. I did a quick crop and then a shitty job of fixing red eye. If you blow the photo up my eyes kind of look funny because one pupil is a very dark black and the other isn’t so dark. (...)

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