Travel, Tech, Thoughts…
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The True Meaning of Christmas…
I should really be doing other work, but after reading the news this morning, it dawned on me that what I really wanted to do was write a short blog post about “The True Meaning of Christmas.” (NOTE: For all the readers of my blog who are religious, this is your cue to stop reading…
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OpenOffice Macro to fix UTF-8 and iso-8859-1 encoding issues (–, —, â€, “, Â)
I’m not exactly sure why it is happening (probably cut and paste issues), but occasionally I get some encoding errors on my blog. Quotes and dashes end up as: –, —, â€, “. You can see an example in this photo: According to this website, this is an issue of browsers not playing nice using…
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Things I’ve Done…
My sister-in-law posted this on her blog. As I read through the list, I was surprised by the number of things I have done. I don’t usually do these “pass-it-along” blog thingamajiggers, but I thought this might be fun. Anyone done more than I have? My percentage: 67% complete! 1. Started your own blog 2.…
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Dariposa’s first pictures
While Debi’s family was down here for Thanksgiving, they took to calling the baby “Dariposa” (nod to Shalynn for the name) which is a combination of the two names we have chosen: Darwin for a boy, Mariposa for a girl (though Debi is still insisting that she isn’t sold on the names). So, until we…
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completed puzzle – Debi’s pregnant!
For those too impatient to put the puzzle together, here’s the puzzle in its entirety:
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puzzle piece #35
And now, for the final piece:
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puzzle piece #34
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puzzle piece #33
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Thanksgiving with Family
I know most readers of the blog are preoccupied with the puzzle, especially since it looks like it might actually be big news and not just some random household item (just a few more days!). But while that plays out, here’s a little update on recent events. Debi’s family came down to Tampa for Thanksgiving. …
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puzzle piece #32