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• Looking forward to the @derekwebb concert at Warehouse 54 this weekend. Wonder if it's solo or full band? #
• Helping Grace with geometry homework. #
• I hate the zamboni in Plants vs Zombies. Hate it! #
• Doogie Smurf: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=63881 #
• Today is a good day to code. #
• Whoa, @prodigaljohn & @clovernews are giving away a Macbook Pro 13 inch. Details http://bit.ly/b1SOlP #
• So intensely bummed that I couldn't make it to the @derekwebb show tonight. Couldn't find babysitting for my son. Come back to PA soon! #
• I just got the Mac Heist bundle. 7 awesome Mac apps worth $260+ for only $20 and got 3 cool bonus apps free! http://bit.ly/heist-it #
• I am the worst father in the world. #

• Oops! Almost worked right through lunch. Time to take a break. Also, Dreamhost. #
• Every support call I take is a new reminder that despite all of our progress, computers are still too confusing for most people. #
• 'stockholm syndrome' is FREE for the next 48 hours (until midnight this thursday) here: http://bit.ly/bPFr7H /via @derekwebb #
• Chiropractor. Click click crack. #
• That is some serious freaking wind out there. #
• Snowed in again. Hope I have some vacation days left by the time summer comes around. #
• Win TapeDeck from Mac.AppStorm: http://mac.appstorm.net/general/competitions/tapedeck-licenses-up-for-grabs #
• Some kind soul just plowed my driveway! I'm free! #
• At Folklore Coffee for the Kheris show. Currently listening to a subset of Receiving The Ghost. #
• At my niece's third birthday party. #
• It's a princess party.
  http://twitpic.com/15vps9 #

• Glad to be back at work today. #
• Just ate a faschnacht. Yummy. #
• Paid my Dreamhost bill for this year. #
• Sometimes I hate CSS. #
• Finally set up my svn repository at work. Now I can screw up my code with impunity. #
• Setting up my new M-Audio ProFire 2626. 8 channels of digital goodness. Time to record a new demo. #
• I hate Internet Explorer so freaking much. #
• Church luncheon. Italian theme. Lots of pasta. Mmmm…. #

• Exercise bike. Won't last long after all that shoveling. #
• Helping Grace with her spelling and math. Then it's time for Chuck and Big Bang. #
• All the area that I cleared of snow this morning is now buried deeper than when I started. Too windy to go back out. #
• Still snowed in. Anybody have a plow? At this point, I'm not expecting to get out until Saturday. Maybe. Sigh… #
• We're dug out. Again. For now. No more snow, please. My back can't take it. #
• No digging out needed today. Finally! #
• Tonight's setup: Gretsch + Floor POD Plus. No amp. Sounds great. #

• Crisis averted. Narrowly.
  Also, DreamHost. #
• Internet's down at work. Boo!
  But Dreamhost still rocks. #
• T-minus 4 8 15 16 23 42… #
• Time for the exercise bike. #
• Here's where things start to get interesting:
  Textbook Publishers Strike Deals to Bring Content to iPad
  http://j.mp/cwmZrY #
• Time to go find my car… #
• Do not use SELECT * in production code. Ever. For many reasons. I'm looking at you, guy-I-replaced. #
• Bit rot is kicking in. Several data systems at work seem to be eating themselves alive. #
• Before I forget: Dreamhost. #
• I bought the literary equivalent of a side hug today. http://bit.ly/8YLJrV from @prodigaljohn #
• Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope. #
• Dreamhost. That is all. #
• So far, this snow storm is not impressing me. Let's see if it picks up overnight. #
• Okay, now *this* is a snowstorm. #
• My kids were playing instruments handed down by our gradfathers: http://tinyurl.com/ykcuvbw #
• There are snow drifts in my driveway four and five feet high. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. #
• Watching Mr. Bean with Gracie. #
• Mr. Morton is the subject of my sentence, and what the predicate says, he does. #
• Soreness. I haz it. #
• Dear Thunderbird,
  Good morning. Have trouble waking up, did we? Glad you could finally join us.
  Sincerely,
  Brad's other apps #

• Dear Vendors, #
• Dear Vendors,
  When you update your installation instructions, it's good practice to actually notify your customers.
  Thank you,
  Brad #

I heart The Onion:

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA—Kevin Higgins always hated gym class. Like many of his classmates, he questioned the relevance of things like “exercise” and “physical fitness,” and wondered if these skills would ever have any real-world applications. Though he endured more than 720 hours of gym over 12 years, the 38-year-old accounting clerk said Monday that he has still never used physical education once in his life.

Read on for a great article. Brilliant. Classic Onion.

Just came across this gem from Sam Rowlands on the REALbasic mailing list: 90% of people think software should be free; the other 10% write the software.

So true. So true.

From Stuff Christians Like:

1. If your candidate lost, you have to write:
God is sovereign and will provide. He is still in control. Everything is going to be alright.

2. If your candidate won, you have to write:
God is good and has provided. He is still in control. Everything is going to be alright.

Since both those things are true about God and Wednesday is going to be a pretty busy day, I thought I would get my mandatory Christian blogger post election entry out of the way.

God is sovereign. God is good. He will provide and He has provided. Everything is going to be alright.

So true.

After months of grandstanding, pontificating, debating, and blustering, our two major party presidential candidates are entering the home stretch. We have only a few weeks to go until the general election, which will slightly influence the electoral college, which will decide the future of our great nation, at least for the next four to eight years.

This has been a difficult campaign for a lot of people. The issues are important and varied. We have the economy and the war. And for some reason, we’re still bickering about abortion. Not to mention gay marriage, health care, and taxes. It seems like everybody has something at stake in this election.

I’ve never endorsed a candidate in this blog before, but tonight I take the step of doing so.

It wasn’t an easy decision. Both Senator Obama and Senator McCain have served our country with honor, so choosing a single candidate was no simple task.

But in the end, the choice was clear. I decided to endorse a candidate with a long and storied history of getting the tough jobs done. Someone who hasn’t made many friends along the way, but who has a proven track record of getting results. Someone who even has a family history in the business.

Click here to see the man who is receiving my endorsement.