…and we’re back

Back in November I announced I was transitioning hosts for this web site.  I’ve managed to get everything fully transitioned back to a self hosted site.  Amazon Web Services are awesome.  More control, more power, more capacity and less cost.  Hard to beat.  I’ll not speak poorly of where I’ve been but it was definitely [...]

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Marking Sugar’s passing

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Heart Attack

Monday evening I received a call from Carole‘s sister Alice.  My Dad had several heart attacks and was currently in the Emergency Room at the Kettering Medical Center.  He had been at the VA Center having an issue with his foot looked in to when he first started experiencing symptoms of a heart attack.  The [...]

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Aaron Swartz

Aaron Swartz died yesterday.  He committed suicide.  I’ve been reading about Aaron for years it seems.  Turns out he was only 26 years old at the time of his passing.  He’s a contemporary of my son.  He managed to help write the specification for sharing content across web sites (RSS 1.0) at the age of [...]

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Black Friday?

Matt was the first person to offer a cautionary note when Becky and I told him we were considering purchasing our first wide screen TV on or near Black Friday (yea – we love the 90′s).  His advice was to wait, adding TVs aren’t really discounted before Christmas.  We’ve gotten used to using Will‘s TV while he’s [...]

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