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Entries from March 2007

The HolyCrapTheWeddingIsInLessThan3Months Post

March 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments · wedding

So 2 big things have happened in the past few days regarding the wedding, and if you answered “tuxes” and “limo”, then you were probably with us or I already called you about it (sorry internet - you’re second billing this time).
I picked out the tuxes for the groomsmen & the fathers on Tuesday night. [...]

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Blog goes into “Spring in Ferndale” mode

March 28th, 2007 · No Comments · internet, whatever

Just a quick note that I spruced up the blog header from “Winter in Detroit” mode, to “Spring in Ferndale” mode.
The photos are some I grabbed off the internets of the 9 Mile & Woodward area of downtown Ferndale. Of note you will see in rotation the Woodward Avenue Brewers (one of our favourite hangouts), [...]

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Pet Food Recall Part 5: Cautiously Optimistic

March 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Photos, life, the kids

Despite everything that happened with Monty two months ago, Eukanuba has impressed me.
I buy Eukanuba food for both Bailey & Monty. A lot of Eukanuba food. $70.00 a month worth of Eukanuba food. In the grand scheme of things my investment is probably nothing to a company that talks of millions of dollars in profits. [...]

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Pet Food Recall Part 4: Menu Foods is all talk

March 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments · How To Annoy Me, the kids

From the Menu Foods FAQ online:
If Menu Foods product is the cause of sickness or death, Menu Foods will take responsibility. Menu has engaged a professional firm to manage your concerns and is currently contacting concerned pet owners who have reached our call center. Specific direction will be received from these individuals. Please keep copies [...]

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Rat poison found in tainted pet food

March 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · How To Annoy Me, the kids

Normally in a rant, I would have plenty of things to say. Right now, it’s probably the shock more than anything that is preventing me from typing as I am absolutely livid about the CNN.com breaking news headline I just received in my email.

NEW: N.Y. officials say rat poison found in tainted pet food
Class-action lawsuit [...]

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Turtorial: CentOS 4.4 with VMware - virtual machine host in 5 steps

March 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · geekdom, technology, work

Ever wanted to put together a VMware virtual machine host without using windows, but were too intimidated? If you�re like me, you like the idea of using a low overhead OS on your host boxes to maximize the resources available for your virtual machines.
Unfortunately, up until now any *nix system install had a bit of [...]

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I’m a productive slob. No really!

March 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments · internet, life, random thoughts, whatever

According to a story over at extremetech.com, a new book is out that argues neatness is overrated, costs money, wastes time and quashes creativity.
People who are really, really neat, between what it takes to be really neat at the office and at home, typically will spend anywhere from an hour to four hours a day [...]

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Pet Food Recall: We now know what almost killed Monty - Thanks Menu Foods

March 19th, 2007 · 3 Comments · How To Annoy Me, the kids

If you haven’t heard about it all over the news recently, Menu Foods, a major manufacturer of pet food, has recalled some 60 million containers of wet pet food after reports of kidney failure and deaths.
You may or may not remember back just over 2 months ago, Monty had a little health scare which required [...]

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A not so interesting look at my search habits

March 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment · geekdom, internet, random thoughts, technology, whatever, work

While researching something at work this afternoon with the Google, I happened to pull of a list of my recent searches and was quite amused.

The technical searches aren’t that odd to me, but “bg’s reunite”, “haters”, all the food searches, and “vermont ‘red state’” look funny to me in that list.
Oh and trogdor.
What the heck [...]

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Nobody talks about a lot of things, but these guys do

March 15th, 2007 · No Comments · People, detroit, internet, music

Our buddies Adam & Darius have started up a blog to tackle the issues nobody wants to talk about.
Nobody Talks About is a blog that points out subjects that �no one� seems to be talking about.
From music and entertainment to politics and media � many things get swept under the rug.
Since we don�t know why [...]

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