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Office Changes

A week or so ago I read this article on how to “relaxify” your workspace. Some good ideas in there, but as I read the article I realized that putting a fountain or plant in my office would do nothing, and would get lost very quickly. In fact, I think there is a fountain around

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An Odd Feeling of Relief….

So I think that the latest (and last) contract project I’ve been working for is closing in on a finish. All features are there and work, and most of the things in the original spec are done, along with a bunch of stuff not in the original spec. I’m down to about 1 “oh this

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An Unhappy Tabby

A couple of days ago we noticed an odd bump on Corny‘s back. I didn’t think much of it, though it was odd. Anyway, the next day it was bigger, and he’d licked all the fur off that one spot, so I knew it was time to do something about it. It looked like a

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Yay For Old Country

So once again it’s 1am and I’m up doing client work because I’m too much of a nice guy to say no. It’s going to be billable of course, but I really have to learn to say “no, my evening is valuable, we can do this when I have time.” sigh However, I did find

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Adventures With My Car

An odd thing happened coming home from work yesterday.  Out of nowhere about 5 minutes from work my car suddenly died.  Just turned off.  I coasted to the side of the side street I was on and thought “that was odd”, then started back up and kept on going.  About 5 minutes down the road

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PodRunner Rocks!

I blogged about DJ SteveBoy and his PodRunner podcasts (xml) a bit ago…. well I loaded up my little mp3 player last night and headed to the gym. Well, they definately work. I have to say they work! I didn’t have a long run (only 15 min warmup to get ready for some weights), but

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Survived the First Week of Work

Yup, still standing after four or five days of the new schedule. I was tossed around a bit, starting at different times and also spending a day out in chilliwack. Other than the big adjustment in getting up time (and my lack of ability to actually go to bed before midnight), things are going great.

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I Need a Geek Identification Card

One of the biggest pains in the butt in my recently unemployed life was constantly re-proving myself, at various levels, to potential employers. This took the form of questions like: “describe how the linux init process works” “what does chkconfig do?” “how would you troubleshoot if you could not get to a webserver?” “what is

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