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Spam Control 2

Jan

2006

I was getting a lot of Spam comments held for moderation, so I installed something to help deter robots.� When you leave a comment, you will be required to enter some text presented in an image. Let me know if it causes any problems!

Punchout

Jan

2006

http://famicomband.org/movies/punchout.mov

New Job!! 2

Jan

2006

Last week I was offered a job at Thomson West as a Software Engineer and I accepted it! I start on January 30th. I’m pretty excited although I’ll miss Red Oak a lot.

Jan

2006

http://www.devilducky.com/media/38524/

E-Mail Subscribe Feature

Jan

2006

I’ve been searching for a way for people to subscribe to my site and get updates via email; I finally got a plugin installed that will allow people to subscribe directly from the site! To get e-mail updates, click here and fill out the form. It will send you a confirmation, and then you should ...

More on the Fast Ferry

Jan

2006

Well, as I posted, the mayor of Rochester decided to kill the Fast Ferry.� Probably all for the best, it just wasn’t making any money.� But I regret that I never got to take it for a ride.

No more Ferry

Jan

2006

No More Ferry

Interesting Slideshow about the Jordanville Monastery

Jan

2006

The Utica OD had an article about the Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Seminary/Monastery in Jordanville the other day.� They also have an interesting slideshow about the same- it’s really cool because they have a recording of the Monks chanting in the background.� You can view it here. (Jordanville is in Herkimer County near Ilion)

Exploring Webster

Jan

2006

Calin and I went to the Royal Dynasty Chinese restaurant last night; we called ahead and ordered a Peking Duck- I had it once in Manhattan, but Calin had never had it. It was really good; I wanted to take a picture, but we thought it would look weird if I took a picture of ...

CES

Jan

2006

Apparently the Consumer Electronics Show is going on in Las Vegas this week, so the blogsphere is reporting on all sorts of cool stuff I don’t need; here are a couple things I saw that I wanted to share: http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/ces/live-from-ces-sony-microdrives-146637.php http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/ces/live-from-ces-eyebud-800-146626.php