November 2009
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Christmas Tree Picking
We got our family Christmas tree today, and for the first time in recent memory, it wasn’t cold or rainy when we decided to pick one out.  In fact it was a sunny pleasant 70 degrees or so.  This of course meant that we weren’t in a rush and had time to go to two different places to look at all the trees. We checked out Home Depot and Lowes, and were surprised at how few trees each of...
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Black Friday
Standing in line at Best Buy enjoying the madness that is Black Friday. I drove by here last night at midnight and there were already 30-50 people waiting in line. What a zoo!
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“Now I know some of you have already heard of me, but for the benefit of those...”
– My Favorite Liar | Zen Moments (via someone I can’t remember) Brilliant Teacher!
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“Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it,...”
– Theodore Roosevelt Giving a speech upon seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time.  This should be the motto of the whole National Parks system!
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Just cracked my iPhone screen. Bummer.
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“Likewise when we – the real-time generation – watch someone being attacked in...”
– (via) Scary thought.
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“During these releases it was common for web designers to display ‘best...”
– Browser wars - Wikipedia Gone are the days where browser incompatibilities were the users problem.  Now as a web developer, it’s MY responsibility to make sure the sites I develop work in all browsers. (Well not on my personal sites, because if don’t work in IE, that again is your...
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Hands-Only CPR →
Apparently, proper CPR was too hard for people.  I introduce “Hands-Only CPR”… “just push hard and fast in the center of the chest”
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