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You need a backup plan, just not paper

Now that US Airways offers paperless travel, we need to revisit my long standing advice. You need a backup plan for your electronic ticket. When everyone first tries out the paperless ticket on their mobile device, they have a paper … Continue reading

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Top 10 things I learned about Read and React this year

I coached two basketball teams this year, an 8 and under recreation team and a 6th grade boys CYO team. This is the 6th year I’ve coach youth and my 3rd year with the Read and React Offense, but the … Continue reading

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Word of the day: vicissitude

vi·cis·si·tude [vi-sis-i-tood, -tyood] -noun 1. a change or variation occurring in the course of something. 2. interchange or alternation, as of states or things. 3. vicissitudes, successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and … Continue reading

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Pinewood Derby Fabrication

It is that time of year again.  Pinewood Derby. Every year the boys decide what their car will be.  The theme is important.  In the first years we just started cutting and then he would look at the shape as … Continue reading

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“Plus” to control the flow

Email addresses have strict requirements on what are valid characters.  Of course, there are some useful non-alphanumeric ones in this list.  You will often see a period in the middle as a separator, for example tim.joransen@mailinator.com (which is the same … Continue reading

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Road Trip Ahead

The boys and I are going on a road trip.  The wife is in Italy for two weeks, so we’ll travel to Wrigley Field for a game on July 4th.  Then make our way to Cooperstown at the end of … Continue reading

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Reading top to bottom

After tweeting that I really want all of my “readers” (mail, rss, twitter, etc) to allow me to sort items with the newest on the bottom, a friend asked “why.” The answer is that I read from the top down. … Continue reading

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Recovering Hard Drive Space… sync logs

My hard drive was getting close to filling up and I couldn’t think why. I have an external Drobo (2nd gen) that I store my photos and iTunes library on, so the main disk shouldn’t have anything crazy on it. … Continue reading

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Stimulus vs Pork

The part here that makes a lot of sense to me is ‘if there is any debate, drop it.’ I would be interested in seeing how big a stimulus bill would if we only included those things that had a … Continue reading

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Leasing appliances?

If this is right, that most would lease this new appliance, I have to ask, why? Maybe I just don’t understand the finances of hardware, but unless this thing is super expensive, I’m confused why it would be “most.” Tibco … Continue reading

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