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Petty vindication (of a sort)

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Recently I was properly taken to task for mangling the phrase “Hoist by his/her/their own petard”, since I used the word “hung” instead. I replied rather lamely that I did in fact know that the term was “hoist”, and couldn’t explain my lapse. Did anyone believe me? Well, while recently reviewing my old posts for […]

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Housekeeping

Sunday, January 13, 2008

In response to overwhelming demand (one commenter, with whom my wife agreed) I am going to create a new category, entitled “Music”, to which I will retroactively assign the Friday night music series. It may take a while, but I’ll do it as quickly as my schedule allows.

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Comics Saturday

Saturday, January 12, 2008

As I’ve mentioned before, we get three papers in the morning, and I have about twenty minutes to read them (except on Saturdays and Sundays, of course). No matter what, I read the comics, as it is a tenet of my religion. Only the Courant’s comics will do. I scorn the Day’s comic page, and […]

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What’s up with wassup?

Friday, January 11, 2008

Any WordPress experts out there? I was using a plug in called Wassup to keep track of readership. I liked it because my daily hits increased from the numbers reported by the last plug in I used, which also crapped out for some reason. I mean, who cares if the numbers are real, so long […]

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Chris Dodd returns home

Saturday, January 5, 2008

My wife and I went to East Haddam today to join a a crowd of folks welcoming Chris Dodd back from the campaign trail. Chris never caught on, but he earned the gratitude of Constitution lovers everywhere by holding off the latest assault on the Constitution, taking time off from his campaign to do so. […]

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Random notes

Friday, January 4, 2008

Good news and old news in the business section of the Times. Apparently the new Fox Business Channel, it of the all good economic news, all the time (while there’s a Republican in the White House) mindset, has so few daily viewers that Nielsen cannot reliably report it. Leaked figures indicate that a little more […]

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Happy New Year

Monday, December 31, 2007

Here’s hoping that anyone stopping by here tonight (don’t you have something better to do?) has a Happy New Year day, and a good 2008.

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For Mac fans only

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

I discovered a nifty little program today, so I thought I’d pass this on to any of you folks who use Macs. By way of background, I do most of my web browsing using an RSS feeder. I find that I can read through the blogs and news sites that I visit with a reader […]

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Happy Holidays

Monday, December 24, 2007

Most likely no posts until after tomorrow night at the earliest. I just want to take this opportunity to wish everyone who stops by at this blog a great Holiday. I’d also like to thank all of you for taking the time to read this blog. I really am grateful to each one of you.

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In touch with the inner Grinch

Sunday, December 23, 2007
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