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TWiT Added to the Neighborhood

nobody@vox.com(sgtret) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:01:01 -0400

. We've added Inside TWiT to the Vox Neighborhood. TWiT is not just the one podcast, This Week in Tech, it is an entire network with Leo Laporte as its hub. If you haven't listened to TWiT and its subsiderary podcasts, you missing information that may be vital to your survival on the Net.

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QotD: The Best Scent

nobody@vox.com(sgtret) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:25:18 -0500

What is your favorite scent or smell and why?
Submitted by Nebraska Plates.

Vanilla. Most scents cause me to reel in response. Vanilla draws me to it. Simple as that.
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Still Waiting For Live Writer

nobody@vox.com(sgtret) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:22:50 -0500

Live Writer is so completely easy to use, we have adopted it for most of the Famous Grazing Blogs.

However, Vox doesn't support it, or visa versa. I don't care which isn't working on it. When we did
a Google Search looking for a solution we were very surprised that all and sundry said it just won't
work. Nothing in the computer world "Just Won't Work"!!

We are stubborn. We will keep looking around for ways to get Live Writer and Vox to work. For now,
it's back to Zoundry!

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Chewing Gum and Soccer

nobody@vox.com(sgtret) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:48:08 -0500

It was in something I read on the Internet that said chewing gum made you smarter. I am not so sure about that. I rarely chew gum but a piece was offered to me during Coffee Hour this morning and impulsively I took it. Normally, when people offer gum or a mint at a social gathering it means your breath might be on the brink of acting as a capable paint stripper.

But, as I am still chewing the gum hours later, I believe it has removed my ability to write at all. Or it could be because of how little I know about Association Football?

I do know that Manchester City has defeated Manchester United in a soccer game in the not too distant past. I do know that is like the New Jersey Giants defeating the New England Patriots. I do know that my friend, a new citizen of these United States, is a die hard Man City fan.

That's all I need to know to be able to say: Congratulations Man City!!!
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LiveJournal Tags: Man City

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nobody@vox.com(sgtret) — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:47:55 -0500

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Weather Report from Patriots New England

nobody@vox.com(sgtret) — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:19:37 -0500

Here in balmy New England, I sit around thirty miles from Foxborough Stadium. I know there is a brand name attached to it, but we, being New Englanders, will always call it by its real name.
This goes for the Gimmell house where we are visiting.

The Gimmells haven't lived here since the 1950's but when we tell people here-abouts where we are staying, "Oh, the Gimmell house." is aways the response.

On a dry Sunday, with no game in the forecast, it would take me less than 20 minutes to drive up Rte. 1 past the Stadium. Today, if I left right now, I might make it there by breakfast tomorrow. It the last Instant Snowstorm of a few days ago, I left Worcester at 1 in the afternoon and saw my front door around dinner time. My knuckles are still white from that driving. I don't intend to make them whiter today.

Our greatest fear at the moment is ice on the cable and power wires. News reports have a large portion of Pennsylvania without power. It would also shut down the heat, but we have fireplaces for back up. Power failure would mean we would have to rely on out Blackberries for the score. Or, there is that thing called a radio... I think we have one in the basement. Where are those batteries?

As far as the weather, three hours before the game, the foot or so of snow on our balcony is now being nicely coated with sleet. We understand there may even be a touch of freezing rain to add to the layering effect. Then, as it gets dark, more snow.

What fun!!!
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We're Staying Open at Vox

nobody@vox.com(sgtret) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:14:22 -0500

Though we're still getting error messages after uploading a message on Vox, the end result is the message still gets uploaded when using Zoundry. We were hoping the new w::bloggar would support Vox but were disappointed to find it didn't.

We will keep trying. The people at Zoundry say that Vox will soon be fully supported. Hang in there. -30-

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Cool But Useless

nobody@vox.com(sgtret) — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:33:01 -0400

Okay, here's the thing: There is an online editor that will send the stuff you write on it to a blog, or save it as a text file. What I don't understand is why should you add this layer to creating a text file when this can be done using notepad on any computer?

Why would you go to this site to load what you have written into a blog when you can just as easily go to the blog site itself and load it, with all of the onsite bells and whistles?

The way it works is neat. The why you would use it baffles me. It does remind me of the older monotone monitors. It gives you the choice of colors. Amber and Green are the colors that bring back the old days.
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43 Things : writer bighugelabs

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Wishlist Camera

nobody@vox.com(sgtret) — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:45:19 -0400

If you watch CSI, you will notice it is Nikon digital cameras that they use. All of the photographs you see displayed on this blog that were created by us in the last two years have been taken with the Nikon D50. The D80 is our wish list camera.

It was on a trip to Alaska that inspired us to get something more than a point and shoot camera. We took a point and shoot on the trip to Morocco and kept leaving it places. It was only through sheer luck and a fellow traveler who lived within driving distance of my brother that got that camera back to us.

I started with a Konika and a Leica SLR back in the late Sixties but once Nikon came into the picture it has been a fight between their SLR and the Elf point and shoot. For quality, it certainly is the Nikon, hands down.

These are not the opinion of a professional photographer, but of someone who took over a thousand photos in ten days along the coast of Alaska and up into the Yukon. Even with the 4Gig memory card, I still downloaded onto my laptop's auxiliary drive.

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Nikon D80 10.2MP Digital SLR Camera Kit with 18-55mm ED AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor Lens

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