From the monthly archives:

December 2007

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by Ron Bieber on Monday, December 31, 2007

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Vacation Movie Watching

December 31, 2007

Lest everyone think I did nothing but work on vacation, I thought I’d throw out the movies that I watched during the break, that we haven’t had time to get to over the past few months:

Rob Zombies Halloween – Unrated Director’s Cut with commentary – Saw Halloween in the theaters, but we have the DVD [...]

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links for 2007-12-31

December 30, 2007

When an unlovely flame dies — chicagotribune.com
“”I just don’t like being told what to do,” said one of the smokers.” – I think this line echoes well what I’ve heard over the last few weeks. For me, I’m tired of having EVERYTHING legislated.
(tags: smoking ban illinois legislation)

Businesses worry about smoking ban :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES [...]

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Wordpress 2.3.2 Available – Security Fix

December 30, 2007

Wordpress 2.3.2 is now available. This release includes some security fixes that should necessitate an upgrade immediately. Details on the release are here. Download 2.3.2 now.

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Terry Armour Dies

December 30, 2007

Sitting here this morning watching the news with Jonna, a story came on about the death of Terry Armour, Chicago Tribune columnist, co-host of the Stan and Terry show on WCKG and long time contributor to the Steve Dahl Show. There is a post from Stan on the Stan and Terry web site, as [...]

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links for 2007-12-30

December 29, 2007

Inside Apple Stores, a Certain Aura Enchants the Faithful – New York Times
“Apple stores encourage a lot of purchasing, to be sure. But they also encourage lingering, with dozens of fully functioning computers, iPods and iPhones for visitors to try — for hours on end.”
(tags: apple retail stores strategy business customer-experience)

End of Support for Netscape [...]

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Carol Gets A Back Seat for the Golf Cart

December 29, 2007

Photo by jonna404

Jonna’s parents have a camper up in Wisconsin. Their golf cart has no back seat, so when they have visitors, its difficult to show them around.
Back in June, after a trip up to their camper, Jonna searched Craigslist for a back-seat for their golf cart. We wound up finding our [...]

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How I Spent My Winter Vacation

December 28, 2007

Here are some of the things I’ve done over the past week and a half or so:

Purchased new truck for youngest boy that Jonna found on craigslist. Excellent deal (good job honey)
Bought Jonna a new camera for Christmas, since I lost hers on plane on the way back from Redmond
Messed around with the Smarty [...]

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links for 2007-12-26

December 25, 2007

Experts rule out foul play in death of Mozart
We just watched Amadeus last night. Jonna had never seen it. Again, I’m intrigued. Found this article interesting.
(tags: mozart death young)

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Kelsi Ready For Work

December 23, 2007

Photo by jonna404

Kelsi came over for a few days, but had to go home because she had to work. Here she is in her uniform.

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Popular Posts Fixed

December 22, 2007

I’ve fixed the ‘Most Popular Posts’ section over in the sidebar. It now reflects actual most popular, rather than adding weight to home page views.

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links for 2007-12-22

December 21, 2007

Open-source Samba gets inside look at Microsoft specs | Underexposed – CNET News.com
“A complicated third-party arrangement means that the open-source Samba project will be able to make use of proprietary documents describing Microsoft file-sharing software.”
(tags: microsoft samba opensource agreements)

Gmail uses JavaScripty permalinks
Jeremy explains Googles use of the ‘#’ anchors to create ‘javascripty’ permalinks. [...]

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I Think I’m A Zappa Addict Now

December 21, 2007

I am so on a Zappa kick.
I remember back in high school, the only album I had heard from Frank was Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention and I really enjoyed it – but it never really got its hooks into me in a big way. I went through a mini-spell [...]

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Breathing Room

December 20, 2007

I finally bit the bullet and took the time to get the blog to a higher resolution. Wasn’t as hard or time consuming as I had built it up to be in my head. Hopefully the extra room works for everyone.

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Vacation Learning – PHP and Smarty Templates

December 20, 2007

I’m on vacation this week and next week. Since I rarely have time to learn anything technical (or blog for that matter anymore), I thought I would take some time during my time off to learn something new around development.
We have a system at work that is essentially a small portal. The [...]

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links for 2007-12-20

December 19, 2007

The Employee Factor: Do Employees Leave for Balance or Money?
“Well, there you have it. Twenty-first century employees are looking for happiness at home and happiness at work and they are willing to take pay cuts to find the right balance. They aren’t willing to live the mega-stressful lives of their boomer predec
(tags: balance work career [...]

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Glen with his new iPod Nano

December 19, 2007

Photo by netdude21
This was a Christmas gift from my brother, can you tell that I’m excited?

Apparently, Glen liked his Christmas gift this year. You can never go wrong with an iPod.

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Steve Vai Sofa by Cesar Huesca – Saturday Music

December 8, 2007

This guys is really good and has a ton of these up on YouTube.

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links for 2007-12-04

December 3, 2007

Marketcircle: iPhoney
“iPhoney is not an iPhone simulator but instead is designed for web developers who want to create 320 by 480 (or 480 by 320) websites for use with iPhone. It gives you a canvas on which to test the visual quality of your designs.”
(tags: webdesign content development cellphone Apple browser mac)

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Flickr Blog This To Draft Plugin

December 3, 2007

I found this plugin that corrects a pet peeve of mine that I’ve had for a while. The Flickr Blog This To Draft Plugin by Donncha O Caoimh ensures that all of your blogged photos from Flickr come in as drafts, so that you can go in and massage the HTML before publishing.
If you [...]

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