Commercial software is available for every conceivable use, but many of these applications come with a price tag which is too high for most home users or hobbyists. With this high price, typically come bloated features which will never be used by the average user. So, not only are you wasting money, but you are [...]
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Posted in Animals, OSU, personal on Mar 19th, 2008 2 Comments »
Since a dachshund and a border collie weren’t enough, we got a greyhound. Yes, a long-legged, skinny bellied 11-month old greyhound. I would like to say that we rescued this dog as a retired racer to give her a good life after being used at the tracks. However, we had ulterior motives in mind. We got [...]
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Paint.Net is a free photo editing tool originally started as a class project at Washington State University (In fact, it is in my upcoming post “Huge List of Free Software”). IThe software is still maintained by one of the original authors even though he currently works for Microsoft (this is not a Microsoft product). The [...]
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Posted in Homes, personal on Mar 9th, 2008 1 Comment »
I am NOT a Realtor and I am not exaggerating when I say that I get asked every 2-3 weeks about my real estate career. Here’s the story… I worked in the pre-bubble dot-com days as a Sales Engineer for Vyvx. I loved this job – all technology companies seemed to have more money than common [...]
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Posted in OSU, personal on Mar 4th, 2008 5 Comments »
On November 24, 2007 I got the surprise call around 12:30 PM that someone was giving me a couple of tickets to the Bedlam football game that day. On such late notice I knew I was already going to be late so everything I did was expeditious. I quickly dressed for the game and made arrangements for [...]
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Posted in personal on Mar 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Jamison was watching “So, You Think You Can Dance” and was trying to imitate what he saw on TV.
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