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A project 3.3 years in the making
ByDerekSo, this is the weekend where I finally get to upgrade our internal Lotus QuickPlace environment (a system which I’m responsible for) to the semi-current 6.5.x release. We’re still running the ancient 2.0.8 version, which has been out of support for eons already. I wrote my original plan to upgrade this system to version 3…
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Castello Sforzesco
ByDerekI was fortunate to acquire a copy of Adobe Photoshop CS5 for work and I was spending a few minutes learning some of the features that have been introduced since Photoshop 6. I had a few of my Europe photos on my work computer, so I wanted to try a treatment on one particular photo…
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The Queen Mary
ByDerekSpent the week in sunny California – Anaheim area. One highlight of the trip was getting to visit the Queen Mary. Interestingly, the city of Long Beach owns the Queen Mary, and purchased it for $3.45 million – considerably more than it’s scrap value in 1967. It now leases it out to various entities, where…
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It’s just a lousy half penny
ByDerekRead it and weep. The sales tax will hit 8.75% come Sunday. And how about that nice 2-cent raise in the postage rate? I think it was well deserved, based on the phenominal performance of the US Postal Service this holiday season. They lost two of my Netflix movies (only one has since turned up)…
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Mom & Ariella
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A different kind of gas tank exchange
ByDerekApparently, the latest path to saving the Earth is via screwing with the bacteria in a cow’s stomach, replacing it with a kangaroo’s. What the hell is this going to do to food packaging and grocery store isles? We’re going to need a whole new shelf to separate the organic, free-range, native bacteria beef from…
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