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Ah the weekend. Dominica is spending the weekend working on studying for her A+ and getting ready for her next college class: Systems Analysis and Design. I think that she is going to enjoy this class. Of course they are making her buy yet another copy of the same text book that I own the …

Continue reading “March 3, 2007”

I haven’t seen this film yet but you can’t tell me that West Bank Story can be anything but really great! I am definitely planning on getting this movie on DVD. The word of the morning is rain. It rained most of the night and is positively pouring this morning. The rain has resulted in …

Continue reading “March 2, 2007: Working Late on a Friday Night”

This morning the City of Newark, NJ decided to harrass us again at 1180 Raymond Blvd. with another pretend fire alarm. They were at least nice enough to warn the building so we got a notice last night that sometime today (from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm) that there would be a fire alarm test. …

Continue reading “March 1, 2007: Newark Fire Department Pranks 1180 Raymond Again”

The big news, IMHO, this week is Alcatel-Lucent’s patent infringement win over Microsoft for MP3 technology. Now, before I discuss the ramifications of this suite, I just want to state that in this case I feel that Microsoft is a completely innocent party who was scammed by Fraunhofer who sold them (and everyone else who …

Continue reading “February 28, 2007”

When considering the diarian pursuits of famous English language ephemerists, of which I hope to someday be of note, I find it encouraging that Samual Pepys was born on February 23rd and John Evelyn died on February 27th with my birthday squarely in-between them. Apparently the final week of February is an important week in …

Continue reading “February 27, 2007: The Life of an Ephemerist”