tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-165301482011-11-27T18:27:50.133-05:00Life is a harmony, good times - tough times, technology - nature, night - day, work - play... in today's culture, that harmony is random. I'm going to talk about that harmonic randomness that seems to fit my families and I's life... let's share life.Binarypchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02403388132561595193noreply@blogger.comBlogger681100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16530148.post-18683715196532290612011-05-16T12:27:00.000-04:002011-05-16T12:28:05.867-04:00

Going to a Bible College is expensive. On top of that, finding a scholarship can be really difficult. That's why I was so excited to find the Bible College Scholarship website today. Not only are they giving away a $1,000.00 scholarship and a digital theological library, all I had to do to apply was watch a short video and answer a few questions! It took less than 15 minutes. What is best of all

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I spoke to a friend the other day about the mylogram. After listening, he said to me, "Bob, my prayers must be a waste of time, God isn't listening or must not be hearing me..."...After the local anesthetic, the dye insertion still created pain that shot across the whole left side of my lower back and left butt, causing my back to jerk while the injection was occurring. It hurt unbelievably. Then

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Today is the day of salvation. Jesus does not wait long. Urgency comes from the New Testament writers through God's inspiration, about the soon return of Jesus Christ. He died on the cross for our sins. Jesus took the punishment we deserved, and then He broke the punishment for those sins, broke the power of death itself and rose from the dead. He did all of this, so we could have eternal

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Reason is the enemy of faith. It’s a quote I saw tonight, from a person who is very logical. I disagree with it.It’s interesting, if you will, but people try to reason faith away with logic. It’s interesting, a non-Christian, and even Christians (myself included,) try to fit God into our view of the world, into our little boxed in view of how we “think” things work. Do you know how many

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It's another weird part of the journey. Being in pain all the time and the side-effects of the medicine to try & make it tolerable.Well, my last doctors appointment I found out that I have gained a lot of weight. The winter months have not been easy. The cold from the winter months seems to make the nerve damage/problems I'm having worse.The doctor has had me on nerve blockers, which, they

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There are many times in life when we just need to turn away from the chaos in our own lives and say Thank you.Thank you to our military & your families. Putting your lives on hold and in the way of danger to protect freedom and serve the people of this country is a great & honorable thing. You make me proud to be an American. God Bless all of you for the gift you have given us. We don't take it

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The past month has been tough & the past couple weeks tougher. I've spent a lot more time battling pain & have had fewer moments of less pain, fewer moments to use, to share, to have. Yet, in the same breath it's incomplete to talk about the bad, without talking about the good.Nerve damage is a funny thing. Walking around always in pain, the medication taking it down to a dull throb (never would’

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Today is a new day, full of opportunity to encourage, to lift up. Share hope & a smile today! :-)Why do I say "Share Hope and a Smile today"? First of all, in this day and age, hope is something a lot of people are being deprived of. Tough times have shaken many to their very foundation. Whether financial crisis, natural disasters, or other things, troubled and tough times have shaken people,

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I didn't want this to be my first post of the New Year. My next post will be a late January New Year's post. For me, this is probably some closure or something.My brother was a happy, curly-haired redhead as a child. He so loved to tease his older sisters. He was always joking, smiling and having fun. In his 20's he was in retail management at Wal-Mart, even being considered for assistant store

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This was sent to me by a friend who is a former Marine. (Is there such a thing as former Marine?) I have a lot of respect for and gratitude to the men & women who serve our country and many others protecting our right to be free. The message was asked to be forwarded, so I'm posting it here, in hopes that many will see it. Thank you to our military, the men & women on the front lines of freedom.

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We just got this envelope in the mail the other day. The people that we got it from could have had a justified begging & whine session, about how hard things have been lately on charities, about how badly they need us to give. But no, they decided to give a small gift and this bit of encouragement to pass on in a small, non-obtrusive card. So, I wanted to share it, and some other small bits of

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Every tomorrow and every today have the chance to be a better day.There is hope for tomorrow.There is hope for our financial futures, there is hope for our physical future and most importantly, there is hope for our spiritual futures.It's not too much to be who we are. It's also not too much to be who we should be, when we go forward in God's strength.So, why talk about God's strength, not just

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What is control? Today started out as a good day. I was excited that it was my Sunday to take the kids to church. I only woke up a little sore. I went ahead and took my nerve blocker and then ate my oatmeal and took my Advil with it.I was surprised when we got there to find out it was Baptism Sunday. Baptism Sunday is so cool. It's a strong reminder of God's grace & the salvation that we have

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As my wife posted in her blog, yesterday was kind of a crazy day here yesterday. It was one of those days that just hiccup in. I was silly and thought I'd paid enough the previous Wednesday to keep the shutoff at bay for the short-term, and unfortunately, found out the fun way I was wrong. As we struggle, trying to change how our business works, to reset and adjust for my bodies current

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Heather and I talk about the small miracles that God has been doing in our lives. Over the past couple of days, we have been blessed so much by people with very little. It is important to understand, how humbled we are by this. There would be no way that we could even pretend to be deserving of that grace and mercy. God's blessings are for all of His children.When things do happen to us, we don't

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So many ways, so many times, we hear the word faith.- Keep the faith, man! As a greeting or encouragement in passing.- I've got faith in you! Same as the "I think you can" encouraging people to greatness, or passing their next college exam.- Walk by faith! In church setting, meaning trust in God, what you don't see.- Have faith in yourself! Motivational speakers use it all the time, to encourage

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We are in a political climate where a lot of people are shocked and dismayed about the new President-elect. I have even written multiple times & in multiple places that I am disappointed. However, I'm not afraid or angry, because my hope doesn't come from who holds the office of president. I'm at peace about it.Why? Don't you see the impending end of all things we hold dear with this man as

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We have been given a great gift. Freedom. A free nation. We are a beacon of hope and limitless opportunity to many throughout the world.So many times we forget what we are and where we came from. We forget that our grandparents and great grandparents survived horrible things. Some of today's issues are but a shadow of what happened in their lives so many years ago. We forget the Boston Tea Party

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When he first woke up, his thoughts were "this is the day Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it." His second set of thoughts wondered if it was gone. He moved to sit up and sharp reminders told him it wasn't. The day then began, helping a 4 year old and 7 year old decide who got to play on the computer first, then helping them find their game. Drinking a cup of coffee and washing down a

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It's always interesting when you hear the phrase "Well, that's to be determined" or "That's to be decided". These phrases usually mean pending some future event. "We don't know if they'll make it or not, that's still TBD."Well, for me, I think the way that phrase tends to be used needs to be put to rest. My life isn't To Be Determined. However, my choice is. My choice is to be, determined. It

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So, the stock market is a mess. The financial industry is a mess. The credit industry is a mess. All the experts, naysayers and doomsayers are talking crisis. Funny thing is, it all appears to be perception.Since my first lesson in finances years ago, (I was in a small private school where a CPA firm that visited was providing classes for us,) I was told that the price of stock doesn't really

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There are lots of funny times that happen in our home.All of our children have different passions and personalities. So, our 4 year old, Aaron, tends to be a light sleeper, in fact, we like to call him the night roamer. He has this nickname because he tends to wake up at 3am, 4am or 5am depending on the day of the week? We think he acquired the bad gene for it from his Dad (go figure, lol).

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Have you ever met someone with that infectious can-do attitude? How about that "the sky is falling, I'm giving chicken little a run for his money"? Who do you want to spend time with? Who do you spend time with?So many industries today have reasons for negativity, layoffs, off-shoring, shaky money markets... All of these make people uncomfortable, nervous and worried. Many pundits (important

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In the few moments that you read my blog, I could sit here and complain about all the bad things that have happened in life. I could drown you in negativity and depression and at the end we would have the biggest biggest pity party and case of poor me's or poor you's ever. Do bad things happen. Yes. We know and live the reality of these things every day. Should I drown you in the sucking sound of

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So many times, when bad things happen, Hurricanes, Tornado's, Businesses being bailed out by the Fed, layoffs, financial turmoil in a nation or more, it's easy for us to ask if we are being punished. It's easy to think God may be playing Whac-a-Mole with a people or a nation. He's not. Bad things have happened throughout the years. They will happen again.While it can be so easy to fall into a

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I've had a few people ask me over the past few days, how was I going to vote? Is there this policy that you are for, or this one that you're against? Because elections are coming up, these questions are on the forefront of a lot of people's minds.Well, I read something the other day which struck a cord with me, because it is how I do vote. I vote with my core values, biblical values too. So, my

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So, you know you are not in control and God is. How much of that control are you willing to give up? So, what if it costs you money? Hundreds of dollars? Thousands of dollars? How about Ten Thousands of dollars?Well, we had/have one of those moments on hand. Last night, when we found out about a bank transaction that was supposed to occur Monday, and hadn't, I was full of righteous anger. I was

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"Hello.""This is God.""I will be handling ALL of your problems today.""I will NOT need your help.""So Have a Good Day!"

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One of the saddest things I've ever seen is someone who doesn't believe in hope. There have been so many times in my life where I've seen desperate situations turned right.To hear and see true life stories of good happening in this world and then to hear someone say, I wish that stuff was real, breaks my heart. One thing we have the ability to do, every day, is to give hope. Make someones life

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I’m part of a business networking group called Motor City Connect (www.motorcityconnect.com) and one of the leaders there asked for something small. He asked that all of us do something small for a group called “walk4friendship” to support a place that gives a friendship and learning place of support to thousands of disabled and special needs kids and their families throughout the Metro Detroit

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It's funny. Based on different things I was going to name this entry "Ask and you shall receive". However, over the past week or two, while I had this entry sitting in edit mode, God has been teaching my wife and I a thing or three.In one sermon we heard, the teacher was talking about some of the hardest times in her life, when people kept saying to her "What are you going to do?" "How are you

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Once upon a time.... ... Is typically a beginning to a story, a fairy tale. What's interesting in life, is that everyone has a story. My story isn't yours. Your story isn't mine. I haven't been down your road and you haven't been down mine. Some of my story is silent, some of it is known and some parts of it are only known by a very few. My story isn't just my story, it never has been. I was

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I first saw this video in church a few weeks ago. I was reminded of it again, when earlier this week my Uncle Jim called to tell me that his sister's 9 month battle with cancer had ended.Aunt Loretta had been in pretty good health most of her life and had even just passed a physical with flying colors shortly before the cancer was discovered. While it doesn't seem to always ease the loss, we do

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I believe that miracles do happen. Sometimes we forget to see them. We actually had 3 gifts from God over the last week. Spending ever day in pain can mean a lot of things, my prayer is that it will only make me more humble and more considerate of those around me. Many people need miracles today, sometimes they get them and don't recognize them.Two of our miracles were unexpected, little bits of

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For those of us in America, the 4th of July is our Independence Day. It's a day that defines our countries first step into Freedom. While it has been muttered about as an insurrection and some people don't like to think of it; it was defined by men and women hoping and believing in a better way of life, a life that was cemented in a core belief that all men were created equal. It's still believed

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Father's day is a cool time. We spent this father's day (and most of the week preceding it) camping at Outdoor Adventures in Davison. Father's day is cool, because... well, my kids actually had to be reminded . But, we had fun. There were homemade cards, a cool breakfast from Heather and just some good joshing around.Somehow, I think I actually made my kids eyes roll a couple times (yes, even on

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I guess it's Tuesday now.Not many hours ago, my father passed away. George T Ward, known by some as George, like his Dad, known to others as Tom or Tiny. Some called him Big Tom because of his weight. His grandkids called him Papa or Grandpa Tom or Grandpa.He made it to 71 years old.He'd been in two different hospitals since Christmas Eve. During the two weeks he's been in the hospital, I've had

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Today it's story time in Mr Rogert's Neighborhood. As you read, think of the calm setting, with light music in the background, a toy train coming around the corner and a sweater wearing show host, in a calm and soft-spoken voice telling you his experiences with Vista.Well boy's and girls, I've decided to use a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop computer for my tale today. Being that our neighborhood is a

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Today was kind of a wild run around town day. It started this morning with kids getting me up before 5am, and then again at 6am and then 7am, I think that's when I gave up and decided I should groggy my way into the day.I started out catching up on some of my computer and gaming magazines online (hey, it is Saturday, gotta have some fun) in between the steady stream of my two boys coming in and

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Last week I had the opportunity to work with a special group of people at Mcrest, an organization that gives people the opportunity to have a place to sleep and eat with dignity, when they could be on the streets in a truly homeless condition. One thing that struck me while there, was really the attitude of the people who were volunteering. There was a true camaraderie and a true love for doing

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We like going places and trying new restaurants and experiencing new things. However, it's really cool when you don't go far and come across one of those shining stars in your own backyard. Today we stopped for a quick breakfast on our way home, at a Sterling Heights restaurant that always has a unique or different sign up on Mound Road. We went inside and found a really cool restaurant with

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We spent most of our day driving to our vacation destination in Interlochen Michigan. Our final destination was the State park/campground there.Upon getting to the park, we found out that our campsite could be moved through the kindness of our hosts, (Michigan DNR,) we could get a campsite that didn't require hopscotching from site to site with our trailer for the long weekend. What we forgot to

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Well, it appears I've been tagged. It's altogether a new concept for me. From what was posted by The Mom with Brownies (Story of Us)... it looks like I have to give you the following:Talk about 4 new things that happened in my life in the past 4 yearsTalk about 4 things that I hope happen in the next 4 yearsSo, it's some kind of 4x4 thing....Well, lets start with the most significant... 1.

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Things are going much better. The doctor has declared me the epitome of health. We are just waiting for the aches and pains in my body to catch up. Better living through Advil. Ugghh.Well, seems two surgeries in two years and all the sickness, time off work, etc managed to move me to the top of the "eliminate that job" - "we are only hiring for our group overseas" - "the company is downsizing"

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Well, after a fairly sleepless night (aided by a 10 month old and 3 year old,) it appears my hospital visit has been delayed for the testing. There were no openings to get me in for the test(s) today that need to be run. So now I'll be juggling my first day back to work with potentially a several hour visit back to the hospital tomorrow.Well, all in God's time. Tomorrow will be another day and

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Ok, so, maybe a lot nervous. I'm probably scared a little too. I actually wonder if I'll be able to sleep tonight. I'm still having more pain than the doctor or myself thought I would still at this point. I'm also scheduled to go back to work on Thursday. I probably should have called the doctor Friday or even Monday, but I didn't. I was just hoping that it would stop hurting.The thing is, even

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Fantasy has always been fascinating to me. Whether it was the cowboy's and Indians, Star Wars, knights and dragons, superhero's, modern day and past. I found Zorro fascinating along with Daniel Boone, Davy Crocket and Jim Bowie. I always wanted to wield a lightsaber in defense of the Republic defeating Darth Vader and I wanted the magic sword of King Arthur, because I knew no dragon hide, no

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I'm not usually a fan-boy of much stuff. However, I'd read a lot of reviews of this "Linux based firmware NIC" and FNApps from Bigfoot Networks. Some people saying it was crap and others that couldn't stop singing it's glory. The only thing that bit me, was the $250+ price tag.When I heard they had released a sub-$200 version and our tax return happened to come in about the same time, it was time

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Ok, so I'm going to cheat some on this post and use the contents of an e-mail update I sent out, so I don't have to spend a lot of time writing it.Even with the pain meds, I feel like a walking bruise and am in a lot of pain right now. Apparently my surgery went well. From Heather talking to the doctor, apparently my gall bladder has been bad for some time. It had been oozing/leaking/excreting a

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If you must end up in the hospital...Ok... there you go, I started it. I wasn't really sure how to start this one. See, you never want to end up in the hospital, at least noone I know does. I mean, maybe for a job, but not usually as a patient.It's probably the part about, "you must be ill to stay here" type thing...Or maybe it's the "we are going to poke you with lots of needles" type thing...Or

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Happy Valentines Day!In addition to valentines day, today was our anniversary too. I took a vacation day from work, to spend it with my wife and try to spoil her a bit. We've been married for fourteen years now. We had plans to go out in the morning and for lunch. Well, best laid plans of mice and men, since here in Michigan, we were pretty much hit by the North end of a nasty little blizzard

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I get asked why I have moderation turned on. It's not to make it hard to post, it's because I've had to deal with forum/blog trolls trying to post ad links in response to posts. It's silly, but it's what happens. So, I'm not interested in censoring your post, I'm censoring the people who are wasting blog posts and comments for their own advertising. If they want to sell ads, they need to get

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I've been playing with Windows Vista, Business Edition on a D600 Dell laptop. The UAC security model leaves me questioning most days. I find it frustrating that, as an Administrator, I have to elevate privileges just to run an "ipconfig /flushdns" command. However, I'm also very excited about Ready Boost.Ready Boost is the ability to plug a USB Thumb Drive into a USB slot and have the system use

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Christmas is one of those times of year there is a lot of controversy about. Do this, don't do that. Don't spend that, do spend that.We get yanked between religion, tradition and commercialism... and who knows how many more "ism's".In our family we are trying to build a healthy mix. We want to honor God and thank Him for the gift that he gave. We want to create traditions that our children keep.

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I had a phone call from someone very dear to me the other day. Her husband and herself are struggling with communication and connecting with each other. They've been through a lot of ordeals in the past few years and this call felt strangely anticlimactic after all of it.The reality is that they aren't communicating, and it's putting a huge burden on the marriage. I prayed with her and

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Somehow in the craziness of pain, change, chaos and pain medication honor is sometimes hard to grasp. What is honor and right for one, may not be the path another chooses.I ended up getting surgery on my ankle almost 6 weeks ago now. To make a long story short, I went to a new doctor who stated that even if I'd been treated poorly (i.e. no cast, no proper elevation and all the other stuff you do

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It's been a crazy couple of months for us. On December 2nd I slipped and fell on a decorative piece of pavement outside my church while we were picking up tickets for an outing at Greenfield Village. Needless to say, we didn't make the trip, and instead got to spend the evening with the wonderful and overworked staff at Crittenton Hospital in Rochester Hills. In short, I succeeded in achieving

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It's been a while since I've put anything down. A lot of craziness at work and home has kept us running in circles. Recently moving out of an Ops role to an Engineering role has really brought a lot of new challenges forward. Learning a new group can be a fun and exciting thing.On a personal level, we had a roof leak down our kitchen chandelier (thank God for my brother-in-law who took the

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My children are some of the coolest people I know. Their minds are so full of imagination and life. It's a pleasure to see them set up lemonade stands, plays and their own carnivals. When you see a child's imagination in action, the innocence, fun and joy is probably one of the brightest evidence' of God breathing his spirit into man. No wonder Jesus said to his disciples "...suffer the little

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Being employed in the technology arena, I tend to get very focused on it and all of the things surrounding it. (It probably doesn't hurt that it's fun and a hobby for me too ;-)However, I have a friend that started out in Civil Engineering, wound up as a "LAN" Administrataor, network admin and eventually a manager at a technology firm. Very sharp guy. However he surprised the heck out of me when

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Innovation, Change, Action, Agile......These are all the things a business needs to stay feasible in today's world! I actually have the privilege of working for one of these companies. For privacy reasons, I can't really talk about who they are, but I can say that they have reinvented themselves over the past two years.That reinvention bodes well for their future. They've taken old school

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One of the things I like about technology is the change, the growth, the challenge of working on new things, inventing new ways of doing things and solving new problems.As companies grow in today's world, why do so many of those who could be at the forefront of change and coming up with ways to apply these new inventions (yes I call the evolutionary growth and leaps in technology, invention; but

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Seems a group of WoW geeks over at Novell, had a bit of a problem with a server that was hosting their guild site. It seems to have been used as a bounce point for port scanning lots of Internet hosts. You can check it out at ComputerWorld - Novell Server HackedAssuming it was Suse linux; This brings up an interesting point for how Novell handles this newer acquisition and integration with their

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My son was able to learn about a fun little law that Michigan implemented a long time ago to fight negligence on the side of retail businesses. The Michigan Bar Code law was put into place to keep businesses from advertising one set of prices and charging another at the register. The problem was so bad that the legislature stepped in and created that cool little law stating if a consumer found

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Update 9.29.05 - We now have this WRV54G VPN router up and running. The current firmware version (2.37 12.02.2004) allows you to set up a tunnel and connect via VPN client without disturbing either one. People were also complaining, saying they couldn't get it to work with the RV042 VPN Router. We tested this one with the WRV54G router and were able to get it working also. So, Linksys, Cisco...

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Our vacation was wrapping up. We'd had a fun week, in spite of the bumps in the road. But it's always good to keep things interesting. :)With today being our last day, Goldies Diner was the spot to visit! 10 minutes south of Mackinac City, on the shores of Carp Lake, this little place was the right spot to tie up a vacation. Hot coffee and friendly service aren't the only things this diner has

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Due to work and a lot of family sickness this year, everyone is looking forward to fun and adventure and an escape from the blahness that comes with too much scheduled, too much work and too many bouts with the flu! My wife, myself and our four kids were really looking forward to some down time. (Well, you know, maybe not the 20 month old ~ I think he was just enjoying the ride.)We got our start

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Why America is the greatest country on earth....Her people. It's the short answer. It's the real answer. Saying it's not an answer doesn't work.I watch America, Americans and how they behave. We have a lot of free spirits, people who strive to be individuals on a regular basis. Yet, when their next door neighbor is down, they help pick them up. Regardless of religious belief, regardless of

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