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Joshua on October 27th, 2008

Today Amber and I took the kids and headed down to the Randall’s grocery store near my office and voted on the way home after work.  We knew we were in the right place because most grocery store parking lots aren’t littered with campaign signs.  Texas has this early voting thing where they set up […]

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Joshua on October 24th, 2008

Last weekend, after going to Annalise’s 1st birthday (which Amber wrote about in the last post) we headed over to Maker Faire.  Now what Maker Faire is exactly is a little hard to explain.  It is kind of like a mostly sober Burning Man with an emphasis on technology.  Basically there is a magazine/website called […]

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Joshua on September 24th, 2008

Today we hit a pretty big milestone on Flickr.  Okay it isn’t really a big deal at all in the grand scheme of things, but today we uploaded our 25,000th photo to Flickr.  And then kept right on going.  Of those photos less than 11,000 are publicly viewable.  Most of the rest are visible to […]

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Joshua on December 18th, 2007

Hard drives crash.  Sad, but true.  A recent study by Carnegie Melon of over 100,000 drives showed annual failure rates of 4-13%.  So chances are good that your financial records, your Christmas pictures, and your naughty limerick collection will all go poof at some point.  You need a plan before it happens.  I am a […]

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