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The highlights of your life

I dunno what is in the air today, but today I?m feeling somewhat retrospective. I posted a few messages on MonctonLocals.Com which lead me to this posting today. I was thinking about road trips and some of the interesting things that have happened and some of the highlights of them. It got me to thinking … Continue reading »

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What do YOU regret in life?

One of the things that comes up in the odd conversation once in awhile is, ?Do you have any regrets??. This typically refers to decisions you have made in your life that you wish you had done differently. Webster?s dictionary defines regret as ?to be very sorry for ?. Yet when I think of regret, … Continue reading »

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MP3's & the RIAA

Within the last year or so, it?s been on the news and specifically, posted on a lot of websites, about how the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has gone on a rampage of suing people who use programs like Kazaa to share music with others. I just read this morning that another 482 people … Continue reading »

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A New York Minute

So it’s lunchtime so I need to kill some time while I wait for 2:45 to come and I can go to my eye appointment and have my day end. Knowing how it will go there I will likely sit there and wait and wait since I want it over and done with. Who knows, … Continue reading »

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The cost of living

So let’s face it, with the price of gas going up every day, the cost of power continuing to slide upwards, and the insurance industry gouging the consumers for more cash, and claiming to have no profit, it certainly seems like these are the days when you have to make a fortune just to get … Continue reading »

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Canada VS The USA

I was reading an article on Slashdot this morning about what some people think about the differences between working in the US and in Canada and it got me to thinking about how much these two countries are different. A lot of the comments in there talked about some major differences between us and it … Continue reading »

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Bullying finally being taken seriously

I’m reading an article in the Times & Transcript this morning about how the school district is supposed to look into ways to curb the “bullying” that goes on in the schools and school playground. It may be 20 years too late, but at least this generation may get some help… Read on.

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Why Quebec Separists need to be deported

I had started a post this morning but got hit up with a bunch of work so I figured I’d wait until I had some time. When I sat down and read the morning news, I saw an article in the Times & Transcript about some woman who is from Quebec, who’s one of the … Continue reading »

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How the choices you make affect your life

So as I was saying in my post of the day, I went to this developers user group meeting last night. It lasted about two and a half hours and had about 20 people there, maybe a little less. In general, I’d say the age of most of them was under 30 and some of … Continue reading »

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Playing with dolls at 14

Ok, this would normally be reserved for the rants section, but I’m not in the mood to play with code today so I’m going to rant here instead. If you want to read the entire rant, please click on “Read more” at the bottom of this post. As some of you may know, there’s been … Continue reading »

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