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My relatives have always been rather artistic and creative. My grandmother (whose stories I was posting here before the last crash) worked as a cartographer when you did that all by hand. After retirement, she has worked with the local museum restoring old photographs, active member of the photo club, and is now doing high-fire glass enamels in her workshop. One Aunt is a art teacher on the east coast, another does drawings for an architectural firm, and the youngest used to design sailboat sails.

The shop had a large entrance, where she often shown her works, along with other local artists. When the sail shop closed, she took up teaching art classes at the local adult school and opened a studio in the downstairs portion of their house.

Aunt Margaret, Congratulations and good luck..

I have to go into the office late at night at least once a month. On this occasion, I had a change planned that started around 10PM, running well past midnight.

My wife called me around midnight saying there was a spider in the house. It's HUGE!! she said. She was trying to be brave and scoop it up and move it out of the house, until several baby spiders jumped off when she touched it. After closer inspection, she noticed that this spider was COVERED in baby spiders.

Recently we went to San Francisco Golden Gate Park for my mother's birthday. Her primary focus was The Conservatory of Flowers, which is an interesting mix of exotic plants, and local fauna. The small admission fee was worth the 30 minute visit. The hardest part was finding parking. I suggest arriving fairly early (latest 10am) in the morning on weekends to avoid looking around. As of 2004-2005, the California Academy of Sciences and adjoining Steinhart Aquarium are temporarily moved to an off-site location (near Zeum). They are working to revamp the museum. I believe they should be back to Golden Gate by 2006.

Amazingly it has been 5 months since my son was born. He has grown so much since his surprise birth one month early. His vocabulary (goo, growl, grunt) continues to grow with raspberries, and combinations of the above. In addition, he has recently found his toes, and started a clinching motion with his hands.

I have noticed that time has accelerated. My theory is that the number of interacting people in the house directly relates to the speed time is passing at. Does this mean I am having fun?

As of lately everyone is getting into YouTube. This online website allows end-users to upload videos and share them with the world.

Here's my first one (view) from our last trip to Maui.

I was recently tasked with the process of setting up a fairly automated report to display each time one of our Executive Management Team's mailboxes had been accessed by internal users.

We had already turned on the log generation on the server according to the Microsoft tech article 867640. This generates a 1016 event in the server's application log each time a mailbox is accessed.

Eric's results:You are Spider-Man
You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

1. Spider-Man......85%
2. Superman.........65%
3. Green Lantern..50%
4. The Flash..........45%
5. Robin................40%
6. Hulk..................40%
7. Iron Man...........40%
8. Batman.............30%

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test

While watching a rerun of NUMB3RS on TV, the mathmatician, Charlie, suggested to his dad that he should just right an algorithm to solve the Sudoku puzzles. Hmm, I could do that!

I started out writing a short vbscript that would attempt to solve the puzzle.

1. Find the possible values for each square and populate all the squares with only 1 possible value.
2. Find the squares, where only 1 square in the 3x3 grid can have a specific value, and populate those squares.
3. Find the squares where the rows and columns do not have conflicting possible values to one in this square.
   

4 years ago I invested in my first MP3 player. I purchased online a 1GB micro-drive player from RIO. This device was perfect for what I needed. I could load up 100+ songs on the device and listen to commercial-free music where ever I went.

I just received the latest joke/hoax/chain-mail from a family/friend/co-worker regarding some new issue, scam or sentiment. When this person forwarded along the message, I had to skim through pages upon pages of valid e-mail addresses to get to the actual message, which ended with "forward to all your family and friends".

Thanks to this person, I made $$$ with very little work. How? I extracted out all 200+ (validated and real) e-mail addresses, then forwarded the file off to a website that collects e-mail addresses. (Spammers pay extra for validated e-mail address like these, you know!!)