Author: Chris
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First trip to the dealers…just looking around
Had a few hours to kill before picking up the kids from my parents, so DeAnna and I stopped off at a few car dealers to start to narrown down the list. First up was the Toyota delaer in Florence (Kerry Toyota). They didn’t have any 4 cylinder Camry’s nor any Prius (of course). They…
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Buying a new car…really this time
Gas being where it is, the fact that I have a 90 mile rountrip commute every day now since moveing to the boonies, and my 8 year old mini-van is showing it’s signs of age have lead me to seriously consider buying a new car. I thought it would be “fun” (in the most clinical…
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Selling my Van
Take a look if you are interested: 1999 Windstar LX Just need something smaller with better MPG to make the trek to work everyday. I will be putting up a few posts about my thinking process and dealer experiences over the next few weeks.
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Multiple / New PC's a catalyst for migration to web based apps?
An interesting post on Download squad today that show’s how hard it is (or how easy we want it to be depending on your perspective) to move apps from one machine to another. With the coming Vista wave, is Microsoft creating their own worst nightmare? Will fewer people add Microsoft apps to their new Vista…
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Becoming more "social"
I’ve added direct links to a few social news sites from my main page and each post. Thanks to DavidBreyer.com for the code. Wasn’t too hard, although I did drop the link to slashdot for formatting reasons. I think the basic idea of these links is to get better page rank by making it easier…
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My next camcorder
So I have had a Canon DV camcorder for almost 7 years now. I have been tempted a few times to upgrade, but Sony may have finally come up the one that has the two features I am looking for: HD and HD ;-). There is no way I would upgrade to a camera that…
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Smash-em up
A few of us from work made our way to the Kenton County Fair last night to see the demolition derby. Nothing better than seeing a bunch of grown men and women crash in to each other in beater cars from the 70s and 80s. There were a total of 5 rounds and the ultimate…
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How do you say Oops in French?
It seems our “friends” at Dassault had to do a hasty retreat from one of their recent press releases. A small detail about the customer quote eluded them and so they were forced to issue this retration: Dassault correction I’m sure it was just “lost in translation” 😉
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Finally migrated all posts over from my old COREBlog site
Well, I finally was able to get all of my COREBlog entries from that machine and system into my new WordPress Site. It only took me 9 months. In the early days I was retyping each entry, but then I figured out that I could use the MT import feature in WP to suck in…