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  • Berry picking....

    Sunday, June 26, 2005
    It was a very enjoyable summer weekend for our little family, including a trip today to pick raspberries (tons of fun, easy to pick...) and strawberries (very tasty... but much less enjoyable to be squatting down in the tiny little space between the rows trying to dig through the little bushes looking for ripe strawberries...) out at a local place called Remlinger Farms. We only picked for around an hour, at that is moving at the speed of a 4 year old, and ended up with a nice pile of berries. With a bit of 'low-carb' ice cream, they taste [read more...]
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  • Lacing your running shoes... via animated gifs

    Wednesday, June 22, 2005
    When my brother took me to buy running shoes a few years ago, he made a point of showing me a couple of ways to lace them up based on the fit I needed... but over time I forgot, and now I have new shoes... luckily for me, the web saves the day (like usual) and I found this on the new balance site: Lacing for Better Fit [read more...]
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  • Article about the use of glucosamine and chondroitin for joint pain...

    Monday, June 20, 2005
    I used to get knee pain all the time, just walking down stairs would cause quite an ache, but after I dropped some weight that went away... now it seems that pounding my legs onto the pavement over and over again is firing it back up again, and it is getting bad enough that I'm feeling reluctant to run as often as I have been. Seeing me limp my way down the stairs into the changing room, someone that I was running with mentioned glucosamine, saying that it really helps repair the damaged 'stuff' that is leading to the discomfort [read more...]
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  • Fake URLs in emails and web pages...

    Sunday, June 12, 2005
    Man, I'm getting sick of people's attempts to trick me... mostly because they are just pretty lame, and also because I feel sorry for the number of folks that are quite possibly being hit by these scams. One of the more recent tricks is sending me a notice about my "insert online service or bank here" account and providing me a link to go and enter my userid/password... and the link text is something like "https://www.paypal.com/trustedlink.php", but the actual underlying URL is to "http://128.234.232.23/fakespammerssite.htm" ... and it makes me think that some browser plug-ins could be useful here... especially if [read more...]
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  • Remembering one of my favorite books from my youth...

    Saturday, June 11, 2005
    My wife commented tonight that my son (4) was going on at length about which planet was where in the solar system and how if you lived right next to the sun it would be too hot to live, etc... and suggested we get him some books on the planets from the library. This got me to thinking about a book that I used to spend hours and hours reading, I probably read it through cover-to-cover over a hundred times over the years... and a few searches later I found the title and author, Roy A. Gallant, "Our Universe"... [read more...]
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  • The Spouse Acceptance Factor

    Tuesday, June 07, 2005
    I'm not sure who invented this term, SAF, but it comes up often around folks who are into new technology for the home... "sure you might want to install a media center pc, but have you taken into account the spouse acceptance factor?" or the more common, "having to restart the cable modem sure reduces the SAF". With everything new seems to come a few annoyances, so the question is whether or not the benefits outweigh the issues... and not in your opinion, but in the opinion of the rest of the people in your house. This is an ongoing [read more...]
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