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My New Year’s resolution for 2005 is to commit no New Year’s resolutions to this blog.
Ooops. Oh well, I’m not doing much worse than last year.
All I really want to know is why I’m not getting a “New Year’s Day (observed)” holiday from work. I don’t get today or Monday off, but from the empty [...]

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Who knew I was a mere three blocks away from two of the top ten most dangerous places in New York City? Dangerous, that is, if you are a pedestrian.
I guess I’m just drawn to the danger.
42nd Street may be safer now that they’ve pushed out all the seedy porn stores, but they only [...]

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John Dvorak, who gets paid to write outrageous technology speculation, is once again predicting Apple is doomed. I’m not sure which school of prognostication he subscribes to: Chicken Little or the Stopped Clock Theory. But in a recent article he spouts:
As of December 2004, the Mac share as measured by online activity is 2.7 percent [...]

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Things I’ve learned running a PHPBB forum:

Use a good webhost.
I made a mistake of thinking that hosting companies are all pretty much the same if you know what you’re doing. Big mistake. If you are trying to foster a community, spend a few dollars more a month and go with a bigger host with a [...]

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I turned the Christmas holiday into a five day weekend. That’s what happens when you are only allowed to carry over a fixed number of vacation days a year. Makes for a quiet office in December, that’s for sure. But I should stop kidding myself. When I’ve got time off, I never get around to [...]

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