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Friday Five

1. Name five things in your refrigerator.
Well, after Thanksgiving dinner, there’s only turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes left. There are also a couple cartons of orange juice, and water.

2. Name five things in your freezer.
A good portion of the turkey, some Jamaican beef patties, frozen shrimp shells (for making stock), lots of smoked chicken legs, and ground turkey.

3. Name five things under your kitchen sink.
Dishwasher detergent, bottle of Mr Clean, Windex, bug spray, fire extinguisher among other things.

4. Name five things around your computer.
Piles of paper, cups filled with pens (most of which don’t work anymore), one of the bookshelves, the printer and some CDs.

5. Name five things in your medicine cabinet.
A large bottle of Advil, Theraflu, cold medicine, BandAids, and my razor blades.

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Restructured blog

I’ve restructured the way my blog is organized to try to make blog rebuilds faster. One of the problems I was running into was that the MT plugins I was using in the side panel was causing the rebuild process to take sufficiently long enough that the server connection would time out before the rebuild process finished.

So, to get around this, thanks to some ideas I got at the MT support forum, I turned the side panel into a separate index page, and use PHP to include() the side panel into each page.
This way, the plugins only get processed once per rebuild instead of once per page per rebuild. Makes a really big difference when you have lots of blog entries. The downside is that all of my page extensions changed from .html to .php, breaking any search engine links. I’ll be leaving the .html around for a little while, but eventually they’ll be going away.
If you find anything that’s broken, let me know.

UPDATE: Figured out how to add a redirect in my server config so that anybody looking for the html version of my blog pages will be redirected to the php version.

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Matrix: Revolutions on IMAX!

Just learned that the Charleston IMAX theater is going to be one of the IMAX theaters showing Matrix: Revolutions on November 5. The first Hollywood film to be released concurrently in regular and IMAX formats. Woohoo! This is going to be so cool! Can’t wait to go see it!

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What SciFi/Fantasy character am I?

Marcus Cole (Babylon 5)

Which Fantasy/SciFi Character Are You?

Which Fantasy/SciFi Character Are You?

An honest and chivalrous adventurer that pursues just causes, you would sacrifice much to help others.

I am a Ranger. We walk in the dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no-one may pass. We live for the One, we die for the One.

Found at life of nicole

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MCAT scores

MCAT scores were posted yesterday at the AAMC website. Last night my wife and I logged on to check her score for the August exam. After some breath holding waiting for the pages to load over our puny dialup connection we finally got the scores. She did much better this time around and improved her score by 6 points over her previous test! A big achievement. So now much stress is relieved and life can get back to being mostly normal.