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I came across this gem of an essay “Caring for Your Introvert” by Jonathan Rauch of theatlantic.com a bit back. I think I someone on Digg linked to it and that’s how I found it. It makes me happy that it’s the first result in a Google search for ‘introvert’, because some parent, friend, etc. [...]

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As the WGA strike continues and shows like this come on - this is becoming more and more beneficial.
I support the WGA, and if you want to follow someone who’s on the front-lines (or screenwriting interests you) check out John August’s site.

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I just finished reading “Dies the Fire” by S. M. Stirling. I was given the book by a friend (to barrow) who thought I’d enjoy it. After taking what my friend thought was much too long to finish it, I finally did this last Friday morning (at 2am). “Dies the Fire” is the first book [...]

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Going to a Christmas party tonight and there is a white elephant gift exchange - someone is going to get 6 8GB IBM SCSI hard drives with their covers removed. Interestingly all the hard drives (same model) have an X mark (looks to be sharpie) on the top plater. The only information I could find [...]

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In a conversation with a friend the other day collecting DVDs came up.
When I tell most people that I don’t collect DVDs and in fact don’t own a single movie – DVD, VHS or otherwise they tend to give me a funny look. With few exceptions I am not keen on watching movies over [...]

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A friend sent me an e-mail, in it he asked:
How does one defrag their computer?
My reply back:

Well…
You remove the hard drive from the system and using an electron microscope you need to examine each individual hard drive cluster (there are 180,000 of them) and using a special de-fragment tool (looks like a kitchen knife but [...]

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