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Entries from January 2009

4th blog anniversary

January 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Back on 29 January 2005 …the thoughts are broken… debuted. That link now goes to the 1st post of this blog since I migrated to WordPress in July 2006.
Wow! Four years already. I haven’t been doing much here since about the middle of last year and I’d like to get back to it. But. I [...]

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Tags: Books · My Life · Weblogs

(Personal) Change

January 12th, 2009 · 5 Comments

(Personal) Change
Some say that the zebra cannot change his stripes.
Some say that everything is change.
Some say “But, Baby, I’m willing to change ….”
The best change is not that which one thinks is impossible,
Nor that which is inevitable.
It is not even that which one desires.
The best change is that which you notice in hindsight.
In the presence [...]

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Tags: My Life · Web/Tech

Books read in the 2nd half of 2008

January 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment

For assorted reasons my book reading greatly increased this past year. Based on that I split this list into two, posting the 1st half (or so) on 11 August in a post titled Books read in 1st half of 2008 (and some).
In the earlier post, I reported reading 26 books and re-reading 3 books. This [...]

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Tags: Books · Literature · My Life

Some things about the new year

January 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Not sure where this blog is going this year. I said some things last year about where I wanted to take it / thought it might go and it got nowhere near any of those places.
I read through all of my posts for 2008 on the 1st and 2nd. Wow! What a year! Talk about [...]

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Tags: Books · Friends · Job search · My Life · WordPress · Work