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2007 Year-end Update

Hello everyone.  We like to do things a bit latter… you know, catch the after Christmas sales and have more time to prepare.  This year that philosophy also extends to Christmas cards and in this case, emails. The year of 2007 January of 2007 Alan’s team got outsourced to Singapore and he found a new job working for friends doing web development.  Alan also picked up a contracting job which ended up being part-time which ended up being his new full time job this November.

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Chirstmas in Louisville – Blount/Beatty/McClure/Weatherman

A good and busy Christmas this year.  We stayed in Louisville because Anita’s too close to due-date to travel.  Had 7 different family engagements in two days and enjoyed every one… though at the end of things we are certainly tired.  We had too much food and too much sugar, enough sleep and a great amount of fun. Photos of Christmas:

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Penelope will be: year of the pig

http://lynncoins.com/lunar.htm – looking at the basic calendar, Anita’s a monkey, Alan’s a goat and Poppie will be a rat. http://lynncoins.com/chinese_newyear.htm – however this link informs that the chinese new year really begins on a different date every year based on a lunar calendar.  As such: Anita is really a <a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep%28zodiac%29”>goat/sheep (earth sheep), Alan is really a horse (earth horse), and Poppie will be a pig (fire pig). <p> </p> <blockquote> <p> The Pig type is usually an honest, straightforward and patient<br /> person.

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The Nerd Handbook – where was this when asked me “why?”

It’s long, but great – go read the Nerd Handbook and understand your favorite nerds just a bit more.  Here’s a quote from the top: Understand your nerd’s relation to the computer. It’s clichéd, but a nerd is defined by his computer, and you need to understand why. First, a majority of the folks on the planet either have no idea how a computer works or they look at it and think “it’s magic”.

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Algebrahelp.com – where was this when I was in school?

I recently came up with a VERY simple algebraic equation… trying to figure out how many months it would take for something to become cost effective.  I looked at the equation and thought I would see if google search could solve it (it can solve basic math problems and even unit conversions), but google couldn’t handle it.  So I thought I’d see if there was something else.  It took no time to find Algebrahelp.