Monthly archive for December 2007

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Monday, 31 December 2007

I posted my weight loss post late last night, and I realized that there are several things that I forgot to mention. Inspirations – My program was inspired by The No S Diet, which I discovered a couple of years ago, and by Mark Forster’s adaptation thereof. The inspiration from No S is that I [...]

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Sunday, 30 December 2007

So, I’ve started a weight loss program.  (I won’t call it a diet because it’s not a diet and I don’t believe in diets.)  I started a few weeks ago, though, so it can’t properly be called a New Year’s Resolution.  But that’s just as well, anyway, since everyone breaks those. When I started this [...]

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Hilton Family Reviews

Sunday, 30 December 2007

So, an aside from a friend about getting hot chocolate chip cookies at a Doubletree got me thinking about my substantial Hilton Family experience. And I thought that I might be able to do a useful community service by quickly running down the major brands in the Hilton Family. So, hopefully this is useful to [...]

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Cell Phone Woes

Sunday, 30 December 2007

Our cell phones are dying.  The screen on Becky’s phone went kaput a few weeks ago.  You can still make and receive calls, but it’s not exactly a full featured experience.  And now my phone’s battery seems to be crapping out.  This is probably mostly my fault since I have become so inconsistent with charging [...]

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Shout Out to The Roanoke Times

Sunday, 30 December 2007

I called on Friday to drop our Roanoke Times subscription from daily to Sunday only.  We’ve never really gotten that much out of getting the paper every day, although I have enjoyed it from time to time.  Since Charlie was born, though, we hardly even look at it.  And we’re left with nagging guilt every [...]

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Terrific John Gruber…

Wednesday, 19 December 2007

John Gruber’s Daring Fireball is my favorite Apple blog.  He provides excellent links and short commentary multiple times a day, with an occasional thoughtful longer piece.  Today, he dissects a piece of drivel about Apple which is masquerading as journalism as the cover story in the December issue of Fast Company.  If you read Gruber’s [...]

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