So I decided to try out Facebook.

Man I luvs me some retro trek tech with a good sprinkling of tachyon particles

My tabletpc has developed an idiosyncrasy where the screen’s pixels turn blue,

I'm not saying blogs.  I said it; worse I wrote it. Ok blogs suck. Typically they are stupid ideas or accounts written by people you don't know or care about. I will do one thing differently though; I will spell check my work! Now I'm not saying that I will actually use all the correct words conforming to the strict code of the Queen's English or even that my entries be coherent in any fashion. But I will enter the text in a spell checker first. In fact,  I will use Microsoft Word version 2003. The most advanced commercial product currently available to do my spell checking. I will get not only the red lines to expose my literal short comings but green ones as well!   Keeping this in mind, I'm sure you will find it as fascinating as I do, how after 20 minutes of editing and rereading the entry it will fall just short of making an interesting point. Ok then on with my umm... not a blog...

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  I’m neither a man of style nor grace. I’ll give you the short version of my life story for now because I tend rant and if you get to know or have known me for any length of time you will have probably already heard all my best stories twice anyway.

  Born in California as an Air Force brat, moved to Texas some years later, got a little brother, went to Germany at age five, few years later went to Myrtle Beach SC., few years later Panama City Fl. Got into computers at age twelve with my Commodore Vic 20. It came with no software so I wound up tapping and pecking the code out of Compute magazine and picked up what they were doing. Was robed from a B in Algebra when the teacher said she would give a B to any one in the class that could predict how long it would take her computer (a Vic 20) to count to 1 million. I wrote the program to count 1 million and tell me exactly how long it took. I was a shoe in. But her computer took 3 hours more then mine did. Turns out she was printing a new line for each count...

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Ok, so we now have a new look and feel. Well that is to say we now have a look and feel. I finally got around to installing The Community Starter Kit this weekend. This is not only a great example of the future of web content deployment but the damn thing works directly out of the package. And the package comes with the source code so you can bang out your custom features at your own leisure.     There are a great number of transitions that Microsoft development is has been going through that will revolutionize the web and commerce (Like that doesn't happen every other week). The idea of integrated technologies is the most exciting part of technology revolutions. This is something Microsoft excels at and why I have slowly, reluctantly become a fan of Microsoft.      Ironically, perhaps, the largest corporation on earth may make the playing field more equal for small business. It became apparent to most of us in the IT field a few years ago that things could not continue as they were. People who knew how to spell VB, Java, or Oracle where getting salaries that people in other fields where taking years to achieve. And possible worse then this idea was (is) the perception that they had to do this so work could get done. Lot of money and no work, it is no surprise in retrospect that the dotcom world came crashing down. ...

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