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My wedding photographer, Greg Janney, has recently returned from his second trip to Iraq. He arranged the trip to allow a fallen Marine’s father to visit the site of his son’s death.
An account of the trip can be found here, but more importantly, the story will be featured on Fox News’ Special Report with Brit [...]

Online Banking Lunacy

This has nothing to do with anything you are interested in - it’s just me throwing a question out into the ether. Read on only if you’re really, really bored.
My bank recently changed its online payment processing method. They explain it this way:
When a bill is paid through Online BillPay, your funds are typically deducted [...]

It may not be very obvious, but this is a picture of the jackknifed tractor-trailer which held up untold numbers of people - including myself - on I-26W earlier today. A number of other vehicles appeared to be involved. This was all due to a snowstorm which appeared to come from nowhere as I headed [...]

I love being able to buy music online. It’s swell.
However, considering that I have aural abilities greater than those of a cheap cellular telephone, it would be really nice to be able to buy music encoded at a bitrate greater than 128k. I don’t know what idiot decided that this was “CD quality”, but they [...]

“When a private entity does not produce the desired results, it is (certain body parts excepted) done away with. But a public entity gets bigger.”
- P.J. O’Rourke
The above quote came immediately to my mind upon looking at my account at the National Student Loan Database (NSLDS), which showed that I owe roughly twice the amount [...]

FYI: Hosting Switch

So here’s the deal…
For the past two years, my electricity has been included in my rent. Thus, I thought nothing of running my own FTP/IMAP/Hamachi server, which allowed me access to my files and e-mail from virtually anywhere, all in one place.
In August, I will be moving to Johnson City, TN to continue my studies. [...]






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