You know what I could really use right now? I could use a Damn-the-Snow Cocktail. This month has given Michigan too much snow. All the shovelling has given my back enough to complain about for the next month. Can't somebody sue someone, or can't they pass some law about this? Where is American justice when you need it? Oh well.

But seriously, come December everybody is excited to see snow for the holiday season. A little while later, all the cheer turns to dread. Snow is depressing, and a ton of it is, well, a ton more depressing. It forms walls around homes and the sidewalks become narrow passages. It feels a lot like you're being held captive, and I for one don't need to feel anymore trapped. But it melts away, at least I know that.

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Testing ... 1, 2, 3 ... Okay, my site is on a new machine. Anybody notice anything different? I hope not. Let me know if anybody sees any problems. First person who finds something wrong gets a prize. You can pick anyone (or all of) the following wonderful prizes:

• 14" Compaq Monitor (640x480x24bit @60Hz)
• 486 Motherboard with Intel 486 33 Mhz, 8MB ram
• HP LaserJet 6P printer (not working)
• Pentium Motherboard with Intel Pentium 133Mhz, 32MB EDO ram (?)
• 5.25" Floppy Drive 360K Double Density (2 available)

Yes these are for real! Free for taking, I have more garbage ... err Prizes, but I'm too lazy to type them all out. Happy hunting.

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Note sure if anyone noticed another minor downtime yesterday. Up till yesterday I was sure I would stay with my hosting since they significantly increased my file space and bandwidth quota. However now I'm looking for new hosting. Taking suggestions.

All apologies to people waiting for new revisions to my technical documents. Things have been ... disorganized lately.

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To err is human, to forgive is devine ... or so the saying goes. I find myself in countless day to day issues in which I do something wrong, or someone wrongs me. Many of them are petty and are easily resolved and forgotten without any need for formal forgiveness. However, of the many incidents that really test me, I'm not sure the concept of forgiveness ever surfaces. Arguments arise and then there is the temporary "distance", and then we wake up one day and act as if nothing ever happened. Do we forget? Not at all. Are those issues resolved? Definitely not. Even the times I swallow my pride and forgive someone for something, I still find that it never truly leaves my memory. I'm not sure that I will forget it. In reality, I don't hold grudges, for I know that the resentment will slowly eat away at me. Perhaps I choose not to forget for some deeper unknown reason. Or maybe I never truly forgave, and the memory is there to tell me that. Which is it? I don't know.

Sadly, in the end, we try to forget that we never truly forgave eachother.

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Yesterday my hosting server took a painful hit. Some hard drive crashed and I lost access for 7 hours, then had some issues for another 6 or so hours. Not sure how many hundred's of people found my site not responding. Argh!!! Technology can really bite.

I would not have cared a month ago. Around December 16, I went from 50 viewers a day to about 300. Last friday I took a peak of 500!!! Not sure what was so significant. I'm guessing Google re-indexed and my site got much higher in their Page-Rank (woohoo, go Google!). Anyways, hopefully this won't happen again. I'm seriously considering switching hosting providers, but I'm not sure if its worth it.

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