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Aluminum

So, what do you get for your wife's 40th birthday? Diamonds?

No. Aluminum. 15-inch worth.

Dinner at Madame K's was much better than we both expected.

The Traditional Bad Boy Pie, a pepperoni, sausage, onions, mushrooms and big ragged hunks of green pepper in a classic red sauce pizza, was really good.

The Orgasm, a deep-dish chocolate chip cookie with vanilla ice cream, was to die for.

Quite a fun evening.

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Cellphones are scary!

I just read this article on our beloved movie stars leaving their cellphones wide open at the Oscars. The company who tracked them draws a correlation to the Paris Hilton incident.

What a bunch of bologni. This was a PR stunt. The newsmedia is clueless, they fell for it.

Paris's phone was never hacked. The service was, and apparently it wasn't all that hard.

Is allowing your cellphone to be discovered via bluetooth really a security risk? Aren't most cellphones requiring user interaction/approval in order to establish pairing, etc.?

There's money to be made in scaring the crap out of people using any kind of consumer technology, that's why everybody does it.

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Power Supply

I've just ordered a new power supply for my desktop machine, a CoolMax CX-400B.

I spent a better part of the morning trying to figure out what was wrong with the old one. It's wheezing like crazy. At first I thought it was the fan, but it doesn't look like it. Better safe than sorry.

The birthday girl has deserted me in favor of spending some quality time with her nephews.

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Happy 40th

Today is my wife's 40th birthday. I just went out and bought a single pink rose, a birthday card and a Chai Tea.

Tonight we'll have a dinner at Madame K's.

Happy B-Day, Sweetie.

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Bye Bye Six We just found Six dead in her cage. Looks like she died on her way back from getting some water, earlier this morning. Probably a heart attack. I guess yesterday's procedure was too much for her. We will be going back to the vet so they can properly dispose (Don't you hate that word?) of her. As an homage to one little resilient hamster, here's my favorite picture of her:

Very aptly titled "PocketSix".

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Six * 2

We just came back from the vet. She extracted another 12cc from Six, about twice as much as last time. At least this time she was able to get more of it out.

Six was not happy after the procedure. Pretty groggy too.

Hopefully we won't have to go back to the vet for another month or so.

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Orgasmic Ringtones

Darla has finally released her DarlaGasm ringtone. She's really stumbled onto something here.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

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The Magic Remote As I predicted the old remote has resurfaced, a day after we received the new one. Vik accidently kicked over some magazines that were laying on the floor, and it just popped out. The Home Theater Master MX-500 is a gem, and I'd highly recommend it. The layout make a lot more sense. Being able to map (and label) functions to the LCD screen buttons makes it so much easier to use. It is a breeze to program too. It took me less than hour to make it fully functional. Most of it was pointlessly spent looking for some our old equipment manuals. I was hoping to find the remote codes, but I didn't. I ended up trying the manufacturer suggested codes listed in the MX-500's manual which worked like a charm. A few macros and custom keys later and we were ready to click our heart's away. [@917]
CVS Upgrade I upgraded cvs.thauvin.net over the weekend. It is now running the latest version of ViewCVS, on its own subdomain. Old references will be automatically redirected. Albino Moose Frank sent me some pictures of a couple Albino Moose. Truly amazing. [@899]
Mobile Orgasm! I received a, hmmm… interesting MMS from Darla while in a meeting. Thanks, it really made my day.

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GooglME 0.3 I've just released GooglME 0.3. This version allows you to search for Movie Showtimes. Thanks to Russ and Darla for helping with the testing. The updated source code will be on the public CVS server in a little bit.

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A World of Fun, Indeed…

We had a blast at the Harlem Globetrotters Game yesterday. I knew we had good seats, but I didn't expect to be literally on the court. The seating chart they showed me when I bought the tickets was quite misleading. I snapped a few pictures on the phone. Some turned out pretty well. I have to remember to steady my hand when taking shots. Well… I was having way too much fun. In case you're wondering, the Globetrotters easily beat the Nationals. Big surprise. ;-)