You may have noticed the succinct nature of my last post. That’s because I was posting via text message from my cell phone!! I started exploring options for doing this when we scheduled our anniversary weekend so I could have some way to keep my monthly blogging goal rolling (albeit slowly) while I was out […]

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I am happy to report that my blog posting goal for April is complete! It has been a quiet night aside from that! More later!

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Tonight’s workout was a butt-buster. First workout was Sensei Quinn working on good solid basic techniques. I got the good fortune to be next to a new student, the Dad of one our kids in the class. He did a very good job for his first workout and didn’t need much help at all. For […]

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On the news wire tonight… it appears that lauded Open Source Nerd Hans Reiser has been found guilty of killing his wife. Reiser created the relatively widespread reiserfs filesystem that has been employed by many Linux distributions that used journaling and tailpacking to reduce fragmentation. I will refrain from jokes about optimizing fragmentation and them […]

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Greed: Medium   Gluttony: Medium   Wrath: Medium   Sloth: Medium   Envy: Medium   Lust: Low   Pride: Medium   The Seven Deadly Sins Quiz on 4degreez.com

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Won’t someone PLEASE play Xbox with me? Originally uploaded by dalcher. Took this quick shot while cleaning up for a Rock Band party at my house tonight. Teddy is afraid of the vacuum and got up on the couch right next to the Xbox controller, then proceeded to look forlorn while I finished cleaning.

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This week saw the release of Ubuntu’s new build, code-named Hardy Heron. The upgrade process went exceedingly smoothly, with the exception of my Linksys WMP54G wireless card. This damned thing was a pain when I set up the last build of Ubuntu, and the settings didn’t map over appropriately because they changed the driver for […]

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Thursday night was a great workout, we spent the first class teaching the youth their new katas. The second class was very basics oriented, focusing on some sparring combinations. I would elaborate, but a few of them were feeling so good that I’d rather keep them close to the vest and use them later. We […]

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Here you see the final piece of video from last Saturday’s workout. You see the tail end of v. and me doing a very tired, pushy, hunched Sochin.

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Thanks to YouTube’s 100 MB video limit, this is part two of the video series. This video contains: v. Me v. v. me (ouch at 4:41!) And last, but certainly not least, v. says to kindly ignore the commentary! Good stuff!

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