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TS Fay Update: 11AM Monday

18-Aug-08

It looks like it’s moving to the East, but anything is fair game at this point. I’ve lived here too long to completely ignore it. I’m not at all concerned about anything blowing our new construction over, but our 3-pane patio windows are another story. Thar’s a bunch of construction debris out there.
Time to e-mail [...]

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Tropical Storm Fay Says, “Hi”

18-Aug-08

We are looking down the barrel of Fay every other tracking update. She is keeping the meteorologists guessing and they have her path wandering between Ft. Myers/Naples and Tampa/St. Pete. As of 5am, she’s headed for Ft. Myers. Stay tuned for more from “sunny” Florida.

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New Search Engine - Cuil - Takes on Google

28-Jul-08

There’s a new player in town: Cuil.com. Touting three times more indexed pages than Google, the creator, Anna Patterson, aims to keep this technology to herself. The last time she created a search engine, Google bought it and upgraded their engine with it. Not this time, she says.
Pronounced “cool,” cuil is the old Irish word [...]

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The End of Steve Jobs?

21-Jul-08

Speculation is stirring about Steve Jobs’ dramatic weight loss that became apparent at the Apple developers’ conference in June. As a pancreatic cancer survivor, the hub-bub is going around like wildfire. If his cancer has come back in some form, it completely explains his new look.
If the rumors and concerns were not true, there is [...]

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Pickens Plan Revealed Today - T. Boone Pickens Video

08-Jul-08

The increasingly famous T. Boone Pickens unvealed his new site: pickensplan.com this morning and released his plan in a nice, widescreen video.
Here is what his site says:
America is in a hole and it’s getting deeper every day. We import 70% of our oil at a cost of $700 billion a year - four times the annual [...]

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Roger Federer; If Only There Was No Net

06-Jul-08

We watched Wimbledon today. I was rooting for Nadal to finally beat him in at big tournament. It seemed like an awful lot of net shots from both of them, but I’d say that Federer would have won if it wasn’t for the net being there, and Nadal would have won faster if it had [...]

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Why I Will Soil Myself if Obama Is Elected

22-May-08

I know promises are promises with elected officials, seeing as how this Congress hasn’t done a darn thing they promised during their campaigns, but…
Head for the hills if this man is sworn in! He is a dreamer and will get us all killed if his policies go through. The gutting of the military during the [...]

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