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John Edwards to run for President

Thursday, December 28th, 2006 | Author: James

John Edwards, former VP candidate will be announcing tomorrow that he will be a candidate for President of the United States. Check out his site (he even has You Tube videos!).

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Fall Grades

Monday, December 18th, 2006 | Author: James

Woo hoo! I just got my grades posted, and they are nice :-) One more semester like this, and I might graduate magna cum laude. Of course, this is presuming that my 3.2-something from CCCCD doesn’t come up and raise it’s ugly head (something I should raise with the advising staff one day soon).

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Isn’t 13 unlucky for some?

Monday, December 18th, 2006 | Author: James

It’s amazing what you find when you are browsing randomly through the web. It seems that the number on the back of books (the ISBN) is moving from 10-digits to 13-digits in 2007.

The source of this news actually provides a really good overview of how the ISBN system works, and why it is the way that it is (and now moving to a 13-digit number).

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Mobile friendly sites

Monday, December 18th, 2006 | Author: James

Being a crackberry user, I’m always interested in articles that collect useful links, especially if they relate to the my handy hand-sized gizmo.

Over at BlackBerry Forums I discovered this link to a page full, I mean FULL of links that are mobile device friendly. If you use a mobile device, its worth checking this page out.

Earlier this weekend, I found that Lifehacker posted a link to mobile-friendly shopping sites (like Amazon, etc.). Extremely useful at this time of year.

Now, I need a decent mobile-device friendly bookmark manager to keep them all organized. Any suggestions?

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I like to watch …

Sunday, December 17th, 2006 | Author: James

This weekend, it seemed I was meant to watch things. As Peter Sellers said, “I like to watch.”

After a failed attempt at going to a movie on Friday evening, I got to watch a Netflix acquired movie, Third Man Out (a gay detective story). It was okay, a little disappointing, and not really appreciated by the others being subjected to it (namely Paul, Layton and Chris).

After recovering from that, Saturday evening Chris encouraged me to come outside and watch a speck of light travel the sky. It was the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle Discovery.

We then headed out to watch the new James Bond movie, Casino Royale. Wow! Chris and I were floored with the spectacular scenery throughout the movie, not to mention the phenomenal story line. I also can’t object to the gratuitous (and incredibly sexy) scenes with Daniel Craig’s body.

After getting home and enjoying a dirty martini (I was somehow “in the mood”), I watched Wedding Wars, the A&E original movie shown last week sometime. It was just what the brain needed at 1:30 in the morning with a dirty martini in me. Actually, apart from a few cheesy moments, I actually liked the storyline and the movie. Definately worth a watch, especially given the name power within the movie.

Finally, we watch a much slower and brighter (it seemed) ISS/Shuttle move across the evening sky this evening. We were down at Willow Bend mall and had just got out to head to Maggiano’s Little Italy (where we were meeting my boss for dinner). As we stood in the car park looking up, this woman came out and inquired what we were watching, and when we pointed the ISS/Shuttle out to her, she was very pleased with her new discovery.

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