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EVO-lved
So I changed my mobile phone and carrier last week. After ten years I switched from Cingular/AT&T to the Sprint network. ATT’s mediocre performance in the 4th largest city in America offered expensive rate plans and a lot of dropped calls. For $50 a month,…
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Teach Your Children Well
With the latest update and release of the open source operating system Edubuntu, little Daphne now has a computer of her very own. Edubuntu is built on the Linux Ubuntu system and is designed for educational functions. Used by students (pre-k through 12) and teachers alike, it…
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Switch to Ubuntu Linux
I am so close to switching over from Windows to Ubuntu Linux. I’ve tried to explore and play with Linux over the years but the latest release, version 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) is a game changer. It is more robust and user friendly than all the…
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Daphne’s iPod
Anyone who is a parent understands that when a toddler decides that something is theirs, you suddenly lose ownership of it. This is the way it is with my family. Daphne has decided to claim the iPod Touch we own. I’ve added a page of…
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Photographer’s Weekend
This weekend Daphne and I spent a lot of time together while WonderWife went to a ladies retreat at church camp. First up was the Katy Photographer Meetup where we walked around La Centerra. The challenge was a point & shoot shootout using only PnS cameras and…
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#14 and 19 Anniversaries
This is anniversary week with the Denbows. WonderWife and I are celebrating 14 years of marriage today and 19 years all together on the 5th. I first met Jenny in 1991 at a McDonald’s in Tulsa. It sounds cliché but I knew instantly that I…
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185-15 = Content
185 is my current weight and the ideal weight would be 160. 15 pounds is not a lot to ask, really. I’m more concerned about regaining lost muscle and better air/blood flow. Today I completed week one and day 3 of the Couch To 5k…
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Working At Playing
I recently forgot what it is to be a human: to enjoy life and the pursuit of happiness. I forgot I was supposed to be helping people. I’m so concerned about getting “just the right shot” and forgot that photography is supposed to enjoyable. I…
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Roller Coaster
I am extremely tired of riding the emotional roller coaster. Up & down, thrown for a curve. Up & down, upside down. I want to get off of this ride, please
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Ignorance Is Bliss
I love a spirited debate as much as anybody. I even like being wrong, if something can make a good case … on something. I’m confronted by my own ignorance or misunderstandings all the time. —Anthony Bourdain
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URL ABC
Go to the address bar in your favorite browser, and type one letter. Start with “a”, end with “z”. Don’t do a web search. This is just in your address bar. Here are the first results in my address bar. Revealing, no? Alltop.com Box.net…
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The Times
Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. From the essay Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau, who was complaining about gossip and the trivialities of the daily news long before any of…
