January 2008

Happy New Year 2008!

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I just wanted to wish all visitors a wonderful 2008.

The past year has been busy for me, between a second child in our family, a change in employment, and going from doing ColdFusion as my primary duty with Rails only on side projects, to Rails as #1 and ColdFusion #2 (with PHP dragging along as #3). Needless to say, I couldn't be happier and look forward to a great year.

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Water is great, but not on your floor

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When you awaken out of bed at 12:30am to discover that your feet are wet when hitting the ground - panic. That's what I discovered last night, after having only gone to bed at 11:30pm. The water leaked from the kitchen through the entire house and onto the back porch / Florida room leaving around half an inch of water everywhere. Thankfully two inlaws came over to help so by 4:30am it was almost all dried up.

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12 Floridian counties go back to stone age

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Twelve counties in Florida, covering probably hundreds of schools, have decreed that they will no longer allow the theory of evolution to be taught in their schools. Idiots. Yet another example of why our children will never step foot in a public school here, or probably any other outside of college level.

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ArsTechnica chimes in on Florida's lack of evolution

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One of the net's best sites for technical analysis on topics they cover, ArsTechnica, has chimed in on the hijinx in Florida's schools over evolution (as mentioned here previously), specifically their lack of evolution from creatures incapable of abstract thought ;-) The Ars author mentions, as I did, the apparent lack of education in those m

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Further confirmation of biological evolution theory

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Yet more research into biological evolution confirms Darwin's theory that evolution is not a random act, that over multiple generations traits that are advantageous to the species get carried on, a process called "deterministic inheritance." Good to see some research given the limelight in the face of so much stupidity going on today.

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