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Some time tomorrow, I will be a daddy for the second time.

About three weeks ago, my wife and daughter stopped by my work to go to lunch with me. On the way back to drop me off, the gas pedal dropped to the floor and the car lost power and the engine went to back to idling speeds. I was able to get it to go a little bit (like 4 or 5 feet) by pushing the gas pedal down and then when I let off, I would get a little bit of power. I had to turn a corner and go up a hill and the little power I was getting wasn't enough to get it up the hill, so I had to g

I am in need of some help. I'm trying to make a regular expression to parse a chunk of text but I am not having much luck. Mainly because a lot of the text may be optional.

The text may look like this:

Message . . . . : Object Q000006003 in COLOSYS02 type *USRQ deleted.

It could look like this:

From user . . . . . . . . . : QSYS
Message . . . . : Subsystem is ending controlled.

Today I was looking through my Amazon gold box offers and got this: Crytonomicon 2. After not much digging I also found a link to Cryptonomicon 3. Has anyone heard anything about these? The descriptions seem to be the same for all 3 books, and it doesn't appear to have anything to do with The Baroque Cycle books. If anyone knows anything about this, I'd app

Since I'm not getting hired to do photoshop work by just sitting on my butt and doing nothing I've decided to start my own series of cross-over ad campaigns. My first is for the Gilette Venus product. You can see it here. As always, clicking the small version goes to a full-size version. Please let me know what you think.

Venus isn't just for women now. Or at least that is the idea.

Thank you to all of you who replied in the last journal and said that you still read this stuff I write. That was nice.

I'm not expecting many or any replies to this one, but if there is someone out there who is reading this and has been playing with PythonChallenge and has reached past level 18, I would appreciate some help. I have been stumped for about 5 or 6 weeks (not really trying all that hard, but not having any new ideas to try out).

Since I am not sure anyone actually reads this journal any more, I'll try once again to get someone to comment on something.

I recently ran across (recently as in less than 10 minutes ago) this movie site while looking through del.icio.us at work because there's nothing to do.

Over the last 13 months since I got gmail, I've found that the spam filter has been adequate. It started off in the not-so-great category, then improved to the almost-never-misses group, and stays there with an occasianal week of screwing up and letting obvious spam through. The good thing is that very very few emails that weren't spam have ever been trapped as spam.

Recently, SCOTUS judge Souter (and others) approved a bill that would allow businesses to take over land owned by private individuals if the business would provide more tax revenue than the homeowner did.

A commercial developer is trying to get approval to build a hotel at the present location of Justice David Souter's house. HA!

Link is here

Too funny.

What.... the.... ?!?!

I look in the mirror today at work while washing me hands. My right side... like .5 inches lower sideburns than the left side. I, literally, did not catch myself from saying "WTF!" in the middle of work (I said nothing because talking in the men's room is just strange).

So yesterday I decided to get a notebook computer and long story short ended up choosing the HP zv6015us from CompUSA. They were low on some advertised model so they were taking $250 off and then still offering the rebates, so it would be $949. It's supposed to be and Athlon 64 - 3500+ with 1GB RAM, 100GB HD, dual layer DVD+/-RW and an ATI x200m I think. Anyway, I am noticing that everywhere I look on this computer it says zv6000, not zv6015us. The BIOS says zv6000, the badge on the noteb

I have called and cancelled my xbox live subscription as of about 3 minutes ago. It was due for renewal tomorrow and I don't have enough time to spend with it right now to justify the small amount of time I do play with it. I believe the yearly subscription works out to about 17 cents / day, but with how little I used it I think it was more like $3-5 / hour.

WARNING: Frog is anatomically correct (for not a frog) and doesn't wear pants. Frog weiner exists on other side of link.

You can see it here if you'd like to.

The pic there links to a full size (6.3MP, 3MB) version.

Hope you like it.