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At work, our Chinese UNIX support crew are off this week because of a national holiday in China called National Day. As a result, I get to work from home on the night shift. Many of you know that I’ve worked a lot of nights in the past, when I was working my way through […]

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The last few weeks have been a blast for Rosie and I. We’ve spent a lot of time visiting the vineyards and apple picking on Long Island. This is our first Autumn on Long Island and we’ve been trying to take advantage of all there is to do. We’re hoping to make it out to […]

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We just installed a new alarm system into our home. While I won’t go into the details of mine, I recommend this for everyone. Our neighborhood isn’t a bad place, but homes get broken into all the time everywhere. Check out some of the FBI statistics of burgulary. Also: * According to a United States […]

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Duck Walk Vinyards; We use the Windmill White as our every day wine. Everyone loves it. My wife and I have been getting familliar with some of the Long Island wines. I’ll start doing some of my reviews here soon.

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• Sep, 14, 2009
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I was peeved to find out that Kanye West interupted Tonya Swift on the MTV Music awards last night. I don’t listen to either of these “artists”, but what irks me is that Kanye West who uses Auto Tune has no business throwing stones at any one elses work. Auto Tune and Pro tools are […]

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I’m all registered and set to start school on Monday.  I’m taking Concepts and Structures in Internet Computing this semester. I have the same course instructor that I did for Database Management Systems. She’s an excellent professor so I’m looking forward to being in her class again. Aside from school, I’ve been enjoying life out […]

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An interesting interview with one of the founders of the Internet: Leonard Kleinrock remembers the day it began and knows what he’d do differently now This fellow was there for the very first packet to get sent across a network .. AND there for the very first remote connection. as very impressive guy.

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Yeah, we geeks have our hero’s too. After a discussion with a co-worker about W. Richard Stevens (we couldn’t believe that another colleague had never heard of him) I decided to look around the web for others I consider to be !Comp Sci Legends! Here is a short list of whome I give props to […]

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Hey folks, Rosie and I spent the weekend with some friends from Queens. We kicked the weekend off with The Wiz at the Arnow Theater at City College (CUNY). The show was performed by the Harlem Repertory Theater. They were incredibly talented. Well worth seeing them perform. I’ll absolutly see them again. On Saturday we […]