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When I was a kid I attended a high school assembly in observation of the Holocaust.   The other kids and I met an elderly couple in the local library.  The older gentleman was a concentration camp survivor who showed us his tattoo.  He was a little difficult to understand but his wife did most of [...]

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Branford Marsalis’ take on students today

by abrown on September 26, 2009

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John Harwood’s take on Obama’s stay in school speech.

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NYTimes dictionary feature

by abrown on July 6, 2009

Really love the dictionary feature on NYtimes.com.  Highlight any text and a small icon appears over the word.  Click the icon and it brings up an Answers.com speaking dictionary .  Useful and saves time.  Cool.

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Well you can bet if both browsers aren’t working in the same way it’s some component that’s affecting both browsers.  I’m smart like that.  Turns out that I had installed Speed Download found it to be overkill and uninstalled it with  AppCleaner .  Although AppCleaner usually does a good job this time the install was [...]

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Uninstalling Saft from Safari

by abrown on March 15, 2009

First of all, don’t install Saft [aaargh!] to your Safari browser.  Classic piece of annoyance-ware that won’t leave you alone until you buy it and won’t uninstall without several hours of internet research.  Here are the relevant files to delete that don’t require you to gain root access to your computer which might end up [...]

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Good writing will chill you to the bone

by abrown on March 14, 2009

Peter Stark’s article for Outside Magazine, The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death, not only pushes this post to the maximum allowed number of puns in a post it is awfully good writing.  I’m going to give you the opportunity to encounter the story in the way that I did, with a paucity of [...]

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I’m told that these are pictures of the first all female all black flight crew.  They operated flight 5202 from Atlanta to Nashville and flight 5106 from Nashville back to Atlanta for Atlantic Southeast Airlines on Thursday, Ferbraury 12, 2009. The crew included CPT Rachelle Jones, FO Stephanie Grant, FA’s Robin Rogers and Diana Galloway.  [...]

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