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Dirty margarita

I’m sitting here with what I call a ‘dirty margarita’. I learned this one from a restaurant a while back. Instead of salt around the rim, which the bartender considered equivalent to drinking Boones Farm apple wine–with a straw– you get that necessary salty tasty by pouring the margarita straight up with green olives–just like […]

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Stuff

Less than Agile

I’ve been pretty tired the last few days, and I have a lot of work to do–on both the project and book. As such, I won’t be writing as much for the next couple of weeks. I do have the post on agile programming I promised to Stavros the frugal chicken, and maybe a few […]

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Connecting Weblogging

Mix and Match

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve been up working since 5 and it’s a beautiful day and should take a walk. Couple of things first. In comments, Chris Heuer writes: Funny how the ‘marketing people’ are still thought of like used car salesmen. I’ve never considered marketing people equivalent to used car salesmen. I even admire marketing […]

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Weather

Somewhere over the rainbow

With the beginning of Daylight Savings Time, Powder stays open later, until 8pm. I prefer going later in the day, as it’s quieter. Fewer people, more birds and deer. Tonight, yesterday’s storm was very evident. I was somewhat surprised to see how many trees were torn up. In some places, half the trees were down. […]

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Just Shelley

Blame it on the hoosiers

Don from Hands in the Dirt wrote of yesterday’s stormy weather we in the midwest shared: Of course, Indiana changed to daylight savings this weekend, something it has resisted for over 30 years. Coincidence? I’m glad that Don and family survived unhurt, but between Rogers dropping RSS 2.0 in favor of Atom, and Indiana finally supporting Daylight […]