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Work Changes and New Park
Work has been busy. Last Friday our manager announced that she was taking a job with another group in our company which has left our team without a manager. I’m a little uneasy about it since my guess is we will be pulled into QE or the core development groups…
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New Furniture
Last October I hired Ammar the owner of Dwelling Designs as an interior decorator since I didn’t know anything about how to buy furniture for the condo. I found Ammar through our condo building (RiverWest) since he did all the furniture and decorating for our lobby which I really liked.…
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Cleaning on My Day Off
Symantec likes to be a little different so they gave all their employees Presidents’ Day off (today) instead of Martin Luther King Day in January. While I was angry we didn’t have off in January, it is really nice to have a day off in the middle of February. This…
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Paris Trip
Ah, it’s Friday and I’m ripe for a post. This was a pretty eventful week. Bri and I bought tickets to Paris so we’re going over in May to visit Brigitte and it will be the first real vacation I’ve taken since I started working. I’ve already started making a…
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Fuji Ya Development
This weekend was pretty low key. Friday night was spent watching the end of Arrested Development with Mark and Bri at my place. I nearly cried when they made the joke with Gob burning the bush. It’s sad to see such a good show go away since I feel like…
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New Photo Gallery
Last night I finished up the blogs new photo gallery. It is a big leap forward from the old way I was doings things in static HTML. It’s powered by PHP and a MySQL database brought together through a framework called zenphoto. I’m going through and uploading all of my…
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nowlikephotographs Podcast
Hopefully everyone likes the new blog design. For the first post here with the new design Chris and are announcing our new Now Like Photographs podcast! We’re doing weekly podcasts that have full-length instrumental songs in them. You can get the iTunes version through the link here or if you…
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24: Season 5
Holy mother was last nights episode of 24 so good. I’m not one to talk about TV shows very much (other than my deep love for Six Feet Under) but 24 is definitely back to top form this season. Jack killing the assassin at the end really capped it off.…
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Killing Me Softly on Hold
I’m definitely listening to an elevator music version of Fugees “Killing Me Softly” while on hold right now with customer service. I never thought I’d reach the day that hip-hop would be turned into dull boring waiting music. The reason I’m on hold is to get a quote for a…
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Site Meter & Thinking of Grad School
I put in a site meter up on the blog out of curiosity last week. I was shocked to read the results today. I thought there would just be the usual friends and family but I had a hit from Israel! It’s encouraging since people seam to be blogging less.…
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Six Feet Under: 2000 – 2005
I haven’t been blogging for a bit since things got busy at work. I went out to dinner with Bri, her sister Tia, and their friend Mark at the Old Spaghetti Factory for my Birthday on Tuesday which was fun. I forgot how much good cheap food you can get…
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Google Pack
Here Google goes again doing something really useful. Hats off for Google Pack which includes a bunch of great software, some from Google and some from others:
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Futurama Might Be Back
Variety is saying Futurama may be coming back on air. Fox is insane. They apparently like to cancel shows and then bring them back after they realize what a bad idea it was to cancel them. I’m beginning to not care if Arrested Development doesn’t get more seasons since it…
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Start of 2006
I never really realized it before but I love the beginning of a new year. Something about it makes me feel fresh and ready to try new things. This year should have lots of fun and exciting things to look forward to. 2005 ended well. Chris and Jes came over…
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Milwaukee Safehouse
Tonight I called up as many people as I still knew that were in Milwaukee and we went down to Water Street to hang out while we were all back in town. We started off at McGullyCutties (sp?) which I had been to once. Nothing to special, you’re typical college-esque…
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Christmas Cookies
Tonight, after helping Chris fix his computer, I went home and made Christmas cookies. I couldn’t wait for this weekend to get some so I had my Mom email me a recipe for buttermilk cookies since they were easy to make. I’m bringing them into work tomorrow so if you’re…
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My Favorite Firefox Extensions
Thought I would write a post on what Firefox extensions I’ve found useful. If anyone has some other useful extensions I’d love to hear what you’re using.
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New Monitor at Work
The high point of my week was getting a new monitor at work. The trusty 19″ CRT on my desk started flickering so our system admin’s brought me a 20″ Dell LCD as a replacement. The text is so much better but the color really sucks on it. I think…
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First Holiday Party
Thursday night was my first of hopefully many Holiday Party’s I hope to host. It went well thanks to my Mom showing up at the last minute to help make food. I ended up making way more food than I needed so I can go from Thanksgiving leftovers to holiday…
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I’ve Missed You Jack
There was a commercial for Season 5 this week during the OC. I almost forgot my love for 24 during the off season. The commercial consisted of Jack getting a phone call in Mexico as the narrator explains he is the most wanted man in America. At the end of…