Archive for December, 2005

We had a pleasant surprise this afternoon - a beautiful hour-long deluge of fat, wet and heavy snowflakes.All told, we only got about an inch, but I did manage to run outside and shoot some pictures, playing with different flash settings and speeds to see if anything captured the mood ...

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I'm becoming increasingly fascinated with photography, especially digital photography.  I don't know much about Flickr, a photo-sharing website, but their users have selected and shared their single best photo of 2005. They all much better than mine, but if I had to choose one of mine, it would be ...

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Of course, then I stumble across something like this and get depressed. Because chances are, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, is cleverer than you. And he is proving it by earning a cool million dollars in four months on the Internet. Selling porn? Dealing prescription drugs? ...

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When I've actually got time to read the couple-of-hundred blogs to which I've subscribed, I stumble across sweet little nuggets like this one: My name is Kyle MacDonald and I am making a series of up-trades for bigger or better things up to my goal of a house. ...

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Remember Governor Rod Blagojevich's 2002 campaign theme of "Reform and Renewal?"  It's not working out so well...Federal prosecutors are examining exactly how fast-food chains with links to one of Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s top fundraisers landed lucrative leases at ...

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