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Archive for February, 2006

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Daytona 500

There’s a Daytona 500 Preview video available for free at the iTunes Store. Mostly interviews but hey, it’s free. In other news Tony Stewart will start 15th in the 500 Sunday.

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Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

You really should get that looked at…

Last Tuesday I started having really bad stomach pain at about 4 in the morning. By the end of the day I had a fever and I was vomiting. I just thought I had the stomach flu. Wednesday I was feeling a little better. But by Thursday I was feeling rough again. Stephanie got me [...]

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Monday, February 6th, 2006

Thoughts on an LIS Ph.D and bit of history

This posting about Ph.Ds for academic librarians at ACRLog made me think about my long, strange road to the Ph.D program here and where I’m going afterwards. I’ll talk about that, at length, in a bit. Basically I’m getting a Ph.D not so much to be be better qualified for a management job now, but [...]

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Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Kicking aliens

Felt Lisa kick last night finally. The first time I wasn’t to sure but the second time my hand moved, so no doubting that one. Stephanie has more on Lisa, the kicking alien.

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Friday, February 3rd, 2006

Defending England… with iPods

For 605 million pounds, what would you expect a modern Royal Navy warship to have? Modern weapons systems, and all the latest technology certainly. The HMS Daring has the best crew quarters ever on a British warship. The individual cabins have CD player, internet access, five channel audio and yes iPod charging stations. The new [...]

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