Monthly Archives: December 2004

Fun in the Snow

December 31, 2004
The kids (and Andrew) had a blast on the hill behind Andrew’s house on Boxing Day. Here are a few pictures of the fun:
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The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog

December 28, 2004
Here is a major resource for information related to the earthquake and tsunami: http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com. Let’s pray, donate, and do whatever else we can to help those who are suffering in the wake of the devestation.
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Books in the Queue

December 26, 2004
What a bookish Christmas I’ve had! I received so many wonderful new books for my birthday and Christmas that I worry about how I’ll ever find the time to read them. Here they are, in no particular order, all of them linked to further descriptions on amazon.com…
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You Might Say He’s a Good Steward

December 24, 2004
I was reminded of Bush’s shameless, duplicitous statement in the second presidential debate, “You might say I’m a good steward of the land,” when I read yesterday’s New York Times article about the administration’s overhaul of environmental regulations…
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Guess the Dictator and/or Sit-Com Character

December 21, 2004
Here’s a funny, bizarre little game you can play online: Guess the Dictator and/or Sitcom Character: http://216.127.88.84:443/dictator/dictator_first.html
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Christmas According to Kids

December 19, 2004
Just when the Christmas season started to feel like a burden rather than the joy that it should be, my kids came along and restored a sense of wonder in me. Here are a few highlights from this season…
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Dead Battery Day

December 18, 2004
Technology is not my friend today. While taking pictures of a friend’s baby, the battery in my Nikon digital camera ran out. No problem, I thought, I’ll just switch to my 35mm camera while I recharge the digital camera’s battery. But when I tried to turn on the Nikon N80, its batteries were dead, too. I ran to the closet where Sara keeps a huge stash of extra batteries in case one of our kids’ 5,328 toys that require batteries is in need of a new set, put the new batteries in the camera, and attached the flash. Guess what…
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amazon.com Phone Numbers

December 18, 2004
If you’ve ever had to contact customer support at amazon.com and wanted to do so by phone, you’ve probably run into the same roadblocks that I have. The number is nowhere to be found on the customer support pages. One intrepid reporter, Timothy Noah of slate.com, managed to track it down by calling a corporate number he found on an investor relations page and asking the operator for customer service. Here’s the number he was given…
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Blog the Blogging Blog, You Blogger

December 17, 2004
ewsweek has just come out with an article all about blogs and their growing influence in the world of ideas. I guess this means blogs are really, truly in the mainstream now. What’s interesting, though, is that two of my coworkers in the past week have asked me what a blog is. And I work at a hip interactive communications agency! So, when I read the article, I tried to see it through the eyes of someone like my mom, someone who isn’t exactly up on the latest tech lingo…
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News Junkies Aggregate!

December 15, 2004
Every time I add an article to my website or send a cool new link to my wife, she asks me where I find the time to do all this stuff. Part of the answer, as I mentioned in a previous post, is that I stay up late at night. Too late. But the other part of the answer–the part that makes Sara’s eyes glaze over when I talk about it–has to do with the way I view the web. In short, I use a news aggregator…
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