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Shingles, Colors, and Doors! Oh, My!

Now that the basement is done for our new house, our builder is getting ready to frame. So Rachel and I spent some time making decisions about the exterior of the house. We had to make decisions on the shingles, front door, and house color. We’ve decided to go with the “Estate Gray” for the [...]

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Home for Sale

We have recently put our house on the market. If you are interested in a four bedroom ranch with a walk-out basement that is in a very nice neighborhood, checkout our sale page or craigslit ad.

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What Happened to ICP?

I know that I’ve been posting a lot of videos on the blog lately, but I just caught the video for the Insane Clown Posse’s song “Miracles”. It leads me to one question. What happened to ICP? I haven’t listened to them in a long time, but over a decade ago when I first started [...]

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IE is Being Mean to Me

I so feel this guys pain. I’ve been in the situation many times before trying to get javascript/html working cross browser.

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The Video Game Bosses’ Lament

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

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Blog Update

I’ve had it on my calendar for years to update this site. It hasn’t happened in the past because I’ve modified the theme so heavily that I knew it would take a long time to cleanup. This week I have started the process. Over the next week or two things are going to change. All [...]

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Is Three the New Two?

Since it took so long for us to become parents the first time, we had to realize it may never happen for us. Then shortly after our first son was born we found out that Rachel was pregnant with our second son. This lead us down the path of determining what the size of our [...]

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The Hidden Cost of Home Entertainment

At Christmas time we considered buying a new Blue Ray player. Last week we decided to get a Tivo. In recent years these devices have come down in price to what I consider reasonable. Things like these have all kinds of hidden cost, but here is one you might not think about. Most modern equipment [...]

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The Price of Unrealistic Expectations

About 10 years ago all our friends were getting married. Five years ago they were all having kids. Now, many them are getting divorced. Rachel and I have noticed with this trend that it is the women in the relationship who are unhappy and looking to get out. We’ve mused on the cause of this [...]

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JavaScript Singletons in Firefox Add-ons

Occasionally when developing add-ons for Firefox, you want your JavaScript to only run once for the lifetime of the application. Normally, you would place your code in a browser overlay, but this causes the code to run every time a new window is opened. There are several ways to get around this. You could write [...]

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