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I had been thinking for a while of what would be my Lenten sacrifice this year.  Oddly enough, the decision was made for me.  And I think it’s a good one.  For Lent this year, I will be giving up having a car.  What’s interesting is that this is a sacrifice that I never could [...]

Every once in a while, I get a flash of clarity or a sudden feeling that everything in my brain has come together with a soft click. These are usually the moments when I feel a need to post something, so you can see that it is a relatively infrequent occurrence. It’s even [...]

Long live the car!  Our car would require a new engine for it to run again, making it unuseful to us.  We only had it for about six months, and it lasted about five months longer than we had anticipated.  It carried all the way from Boston to Atlanta.  And it was the first car [...]

Yes, I’m on somthing of a kick right now.  What can I say?  I like the idea of having all of these remote folders accessible in my file system.  In any case, I actually stumbled upon this thread in the Ubuntu forums and it put the idea in my head.  Hey, there are plenty of [...]

Ok, this is another techie post.  It’s just that I spent a couple hours today trying to mount a davfs2 volume in Ubuntu as a user other than root.  There was no good documentation and I had to piece together snippets of what I could find to get it to work.  This time, however, I [...]

But you can pay restitution on it.  I’ll admit: I’m amused by all of the outrage that’s flying around (from both sides) about the whole Aqua Teen Hunger Force/Boston fiasco.  It seems to me that Turner stands to make a lot of money off of it, as was mentioned in a recent AJC article.  The [...]

I’m sure it’s not news to anyone now, but Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be hitting bookstores on July 27, 2007–a day that will undoubtedly set records for book sales. Interestingly, the date is very close to what was predicted by some fans who thought that “Book 7 — 07/07/07″ was the [...]