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I have been getting an error in JQuery Template, and it's one of those errors that is impossible to debug. It's an issue that can on...

OK, so I've been going through the online Ruby On Rails Tutorial  by Michael Hartl for the last few weeks in my spare time, and I'm...

I came up with this while trying to test if I still had static electricity inside my board: an alpha alligator almost ate annies apples af...

As I mentioned in my last post, I'm dealing with a new keyboard layout. My resolve to navigate around seamlessly with my new layout was ...

I just got a new work machine. It's strictly for work, so my job paid for it. My boss helped me configure it and allowed me to get a few...

A good friend of mine was killed in a fire two weeks ago and it's still hard for me to believe. Here are some of the news feeds that des...

I recently (like yesterday) converted my Windows 7 BootCamp partition over to a virtual machine. There were many factors that led to this, b...

Back in the day, I was die-hard Norton AnitVirus . If it was anything other than Norton, it was crap. My Dad was a die-hard McAfee user and...

Last weekend me and a few friends traveled to Chicago, IL for a Soundgarden concert. Soundgarden is a grunge band that was real big when ...

Jennifer took a run with me yesterday! :) First time, ever... It was more of a slow jog / walk, but I loved it. It was my first run since Mo...

I've been dabbling in Ruby quite a bit lately. I've worked my way through the Ruby Koans (twice now), and I've been reading lik...

DNF: Did Not Finish I went out to run 100 miles at Mohican yesterday in the annual Mohican Trail 100 Mile Run . I ran very strong and ste...

T minus 5 days until the Mohican 100 . Ok, so I'm kind of nervous... Actually, my emotions switch back and forth from being nervous ...

This was fun. I'd not treated this race as an actual "race", but more of a fun thing to do. I went into the run with ZERO go...

As most of you know, I spent most of April and May in Virginia for work. I missed the family terribly, but got a lot of work done and was ac...