• Where My Running Is

    A year and a few days ago, I had the absolute best race of my life. I finished the Cherry Blossom 10-Miler in a few seconds over 1:04, which equated to 6:24 per mile for ten miles. Today, I ran 3.1 miles. The weather was great, I was feeling the best I have felt in

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  • Book: Art of Money Getting

    Since starting a business, I’ve been wanting to read this work by P.T. Barnum. I located it on the new pad, found it was free (part of Project Gutenberg), downloaded it, and started reading it yesterday. Last night, I put it down at page 78 of 98, thinking I still had about 15 minutes to

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  • 24 Hours with my iPad

    It has arrived. Does it live up to the hype? I’ve now been using mine for a full day and the following (written from it in hardly longer than it’d take using a real computer) are my thoughts: Pros Netflix streaming is awesome.  It is great for quickly checking email. It is great for quickly

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  • I Was All By Myself

    And still am. Good song, by the way. Perhaps not the most fitting song title to choose for this blog? Meh. After 25 years in the same house in Herndon, my parents finally moved last week. It has been a long, laborious process, which was not helped by a number of surgeries and a small

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  • OnStar will only find my car for a year?

    I’m driving home this morning, and on the radio is an OnStar commercial. I’m not really a fan of allowing Big Brother watch where I am or disable my vehicle, so I’m clearly not likely to buy any GM vehicle from the last many years, but that’s beside the point of this post. Edit: or

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  • myPad

    Yep, I placed my pre-order for an iPad this morning. I’ve been wanting a new Apple product for a while now, and with them not giving me what I want (a revised laptop since their current offerings are twice the price of the competition and use old technology), I went with this. My biggest justifications

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