Ernesto on March 20th, 2007

After wrestling with a bunch of issues on this site (many self-caused), I'm back. New Lifetype install (the latest release version didn't work with my old pLog custom coded design – rats! – and I had to rework a bunch of the calls during Boston Legal tonight…), fresh database, and two years of posts and [...]

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Ernesto on March 1st, 2007

This dish is one of my favorites, and the manner in which the recipe is presented (image mapped info tags on a series of Flickr images) is very cool!

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Ernesto on February 20th, 2007

A little while ago my car was broken into and thieves stole my CDs. Sadly for them, most of these were language learning CDs

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According to the UL: "Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards would love to have thevotes of New Hampshire’s numerous Catholics. To get them, he’ll need toexplain why he stood by two staff members after he found out abouttheir anti-Christian and anti-Catholic bigotry."

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Ernesto on February 6th, 2007

I finally realized, Saturday evening in the grocery store parking lot, why I got thrashed (torn buttons and bloody noses and lips, mostly) by the high school kids so often on the bus from the time I was a first grader until I was in fifth or sixth grade (besides that fact that I didn’t [...]

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Ernesto on February 5th, 2007

This piece by Mark Glaser is funny and not without some insight (which is, of course, why it’s funny)… LOS ANGELES (Goiters)

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Ernesto on February 4th, 2007

Fairly unique, according to this tool below… but my daughter’s is even more so. The tool says she’s the only one with her name in the U.S. And it’s not an unusual sounding name… HowManyOfMe.com There are:3people with my namein the U.S.A. How many have your name? Via Church of the Masses…

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Ernesto on January 29th, 2007

http://www.naa.org/blog/marketing2007/index.cfm

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Ernesto on January 20th, 2007

From the wiki over at Online Journalism Review: "From astroturf to sock puppets, we provide definitions to common jargon in the Web journalism industry."

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Ernesto on January 19th, 2007

Rick gave me The Road by Cormac McCarthy back in December and I just finished it last night. Would have been quicker

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