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Entries from April 2007

Tweets for 2007-04-11

April 11th, 2007 · No Comments

Wow. How did another day pass so quickly? #
Maple just made up her third song. It’s called “I Like Soup”. #

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Tweets for 2007-04-10

April 10th, 2007 · No Comments

End of the four day weekend. Off to the office. #
Sunny Tuesday here in Vienna. I have a meeting with Cisco/IBM at 10AM and then the rest of the day: nose all up in the grindstone! #
It’s 8PM and I am finally going home. Hope I catch Maple before she goes to sleep. #

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links for 2007-04-10

April 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment

World’s Top 100 Most Livable Cities
Vienna once again ties Vancouver, Canada for third place on the list of the world’s Top 100 Most Livable Cities.
(tags: wien vie livable)

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Ode To Rent Control, Part One

April 9th, 2007 · No Comments

My first ode to rent control and dense urban fabric is a list of what I can find within a couple blocks of my house:
Chinese restaurant, lamp store, playground, Consulate of Benin, animal crematory, Italian restaurant, Indian restaurant (4), sports betting, tattoo parlor, kebab (2), schnitzel restaurant (2), Beisl (pub) (lots), Real estate office, cafe [...]

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Tags: Urbanism · Vienna

Tweets for 2007-04-08

April 8th, 2007 · No Comments

Maple just announced that she is no longer a “big girl,” but a 1-year old named Baby Watéé Takk Dawbel. #
Wow! Another fabulous day. Serious eating today. Holy cow! #

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links for 2007-04-08

April 8th, 2007 · No Comments

Microsoft is Dead
(tags: halfass microsoft dead)

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Tweets for 2007-04-07

April 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Preparing for the Easter Market at Schönbrunn #
Come on, sunshine! We’re pulling for you. #
I sometimes measure greatness of days based on how good of a time my daughter Maple had. Today: super great. #

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Tweets for 2007-04-06

April 6th, 2007 · No Comments

Had the best day I’ve had in a long time today. No work, zoo trip, organic grocery run & beautiful weather! #

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Urban Legend?

April 6th, 2007 · 3 Comments

I remembered today an urban legend—or at least I thought it might be one—that my friend Val told me while we drank tiny, frigid beers at Murph’s in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
She said that she had heard that if one could eat chocolate and drink beer at the same time, it meant one was an alcoholic. [...]

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Tags: Booze, Beer and Wine · Vienna

Tweets for 2007-04-05

April 5th, 2007 · No Comments

pondering just how delicious an Apple with 8 cores would be. #
Caught the first UBahn on the U3 AND the U1 this morning. I tell you: this transit system is slick. #
We’re having office “no computer” day. I keep having to fight the reflex to log onto systems and check my work email. #
Only in [...]

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Tweets for 2007-04-05

April 5th, 2007 · No Comments

pondering just how delicious an Apple with 8 cores would be. #
Caught the first UBahn on the U3 AND the U1 this morning. I tell you: this transit system is slick. #
We’re having office “no computer” day. I keep having to fight the reflex to log onto systems and check my work email. #
Only in [...]

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Tweets for 2007-04-04

April 4th, 2007 · No Comments

Spending the whole day setting up my new “admin” PC. Craptastic and not a Mac! #

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links for 2007-04-04

April 4th, 2007 · No Comments

Meat cake
(tags: halfass meat cake food fun funny genius beef cooking)

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Tweets for 2007-04-03

April 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

Rastuss Waddddd #
Nicest day of the year so far, and I’m working late! #
I think it is time for a commisary run. Toilet paper and booze! #

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Twitters for 2007-04-02

April 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

DRM free EMI tunage. Interesting. Now Apple has no reason to refuse the small players, eh? #

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