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8 Mar 2010

If you follow me on twitter (@usrlocal) or facebook you probably already know this little bit of news. But here it is anyway…
My wife and I are please to announce that we will be expanding our family this year. We’re expecting our first towards the end of September. Needless to say, [...]

Another Goal

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9 Jan 2010

I’ve already stated my main 5 goals for 2010. But this morning I realized that I have developed a very bad habit since getting my iPhone a few years back. This is kind of related to goal #1 of work less. But I think it needs to be separated out on [...]

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Bing!

In: In the news| Micro$oft

8 Jan 2010

Recently we had a pretty funny conversation with our Microsoft premier support tech. It was clear that a memo had gone out from up above and he was doing his part to push bing out to everyone that he could. Unfortunately, he forgot he was talking to engineers. We’re smart ass bastards [...]

Goal Setting

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30 Dec 2009

As the end of the year is quickly approaching, I like to look back at what I have accomplished for the year and what new things I will strive to complete in 2010. Some people like to make a New Year’s resolution. I personally think that this is great, but limiting. Most [...]

Yes, I’m going there. But not for the reasons that you might expect. I’m not going to make this a right vs left, red vs blue, or bears vs packers issue.
I’m going about this from a bit of experience in the not so distant past. My wife and I had [...]

For some reason, the Climate Gate articles have not made enough of a splash in the main stream media. I’m sure that the conspiracy theorist will have a reason why this is happening. I just don’t think that the story has gotten enough attention yet. So…here is a pretty good article [...]

I’m not sure I can do it again. Gramdpa kicking ass…seriously…that will be 5 seconds of the show and then it will go from weird to plain stupid.

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Today, I’m finally able to let the cat out of the bag about a side project that I have been working on. My fellow brother in song, Brent Bierstedt and I have been working over the past several months on a better way of accessing, ranking and organizing iPhone apps. We love the [...]

Yes, its true. Its time to celebrate System Administrator Appreciation Day. Its always the last Friday of the month of July.
For those that don’t know. Sysadmins are the people that fix your printers, stay up late patching servers, migrating mailboxes or making sure that the company keeps running [...]

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5 of 20

In: In the news

28 Jun 2009

The big boss and I were watching VH1’s Top 20 Countdown this morning and noticed something rather interesting. 5 of the 20 videos were by American Idol Alumni. Whether you are a fan of Idol or not, you have to admit it has been a rather impressive phenomenon.


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