Bill Hicks said:
“It’s just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. [...]

This is actually a variation of a party game I played a while back.  In the party game each person would write down a question (just a random question) and then they were mixed up.  Everyone gets someone else’s question, which they then answer.  Then all the answers are mixed up and you read a [...]

Two quotes on passion today.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
-Helen Keller
US blind & deaf educator (1880 – 1968)
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.
-D. H. Lawrence
English novelist (1885 – 1930)
Both [...]

As I am sure you are aware, the total sum of knowledge to be learned doubles every 6 months in the online world.  How is somene to keep up?  Well, they finally have a cure for information overload!  Start using it today!

Living in Idaho whenever I travel people ask me about Idaho potatoes.  They are famous, and they are good, but I honestly don’t know any potato farmers.  If you look in the news in Idaho you see more industry news about high tech companies like Micron then you do about potatoes.  Now State Senator Hal [...]

Forbes.com has a list of the 12 things that make people happy in one of their slide shows.  Check out the slide show for some more details on each.

Friends
Sex
Socializing
Marriage
Praying
Relative Wealth
Good Health
Genes (Inherited)
Work (Enjoy what you do)
Money (Adequate)
Experiential Activities (Experience over acquisition)
Age (40+)

I thought it was interesting that they separated Friends and Socializing into [...]

I write a lot of code as a software developer. It is very common practice to copy code and paste it somewhere else for reuse. The preferred method is to put it in a common method or library that both places reference, but that doesn’t always work.
I have been curious if [...]

If you haven’t seen Serenity or Firefly (or even if you have seen them, and don’t own them yet) yet then go buy the DVDs. After you watch them then complete the Firefly Season 2 survey.

Personally I have no problem paying to watch each episode of Firefly, but the amount [...]

As you most likely know, all the original developers from NullSoft that worked on WinAmp prior to the AOL assimilation left the company a while back. Combine that with the anoyingly slow “modern” skin and a few other anoying features and I finally decided I needed to move on to a different audio player.

Well, [...]

Break out the powdered wigs and put on your classical music. Today is Mozart’s 250th birthday. How are you celebrating?
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