tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69411475681671401042011-04-21T14:41:05.001-04:00An allegorical look into the world of an English man in America and the people who know him.Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03394244631014528068noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6941147568167140104.post-78678862937196317462009-01-23T16:05:00.004-05:002009-01-23T17:18:54.341-05:00

An interesting question that until recently I had no idea had controversy beyond the creationist versus evolutionist argument.First off, let's define the term "evolution" since that is really at the root of this disagreement. Evolution can represent two separate and distinct theories that, while not at odds with each other, at least don't need each other to be possible. The first definition,

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First post of 2009 - is this some sort of milestone? Should I immortalize this happening in song and glorify the moment for all the ages?Probably not.Which brings me to my next topic! Honors.I like honors - I think it is important to remember those who have given, sacrificed and died to preserve our way of life, our liberties and our rights to have other "L" initiated things. But what is the

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So today, I thought I'd share a long-standing theory of mine. As I sit here on my front porch acting as the dinner-buffet for every mosquito in the state of Virginia - I get to thinking about "The Obligation of the Ask". A very ominous name for a very simple principle: There are certain things in this world, and they may change in your world, that when asked simply cannot be refused. A perfect

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Wow - its been almost half a year since I last posted and still the traffic trickles in! The clear winners are the hard drive failure entries (largely due to a link from another way more popular blog!) and the camera review. Go figure!Today, I wanted to talk about complexity. I has it.Much like the inane Wet Wet Wet song, complexity's all around me. And not just complexity - that I could live

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With the appropriately Disney image of Aladdin and Jasmin singing to each other on a magical flying carpet firmly lodged in your brains - to business!I have come to accept that technology is cool. super cool. Uber cool. etc. And I love it. I love it like a puppy loves a sock, like a pelican loves fish, like a fat man love burgers. Fascination abounds with child-like intrigue as each new

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Those of you who know me know that I am a techie. A geek. A technophile. A futureist. A lover of all things gadgety. So it should come as no surprise that I am incredibly interested in the Blu-ray / HD-DVD format wars.The basic principles are these: Like Latino street gangs with a grudge, Sony and Toshiba have been spatting with each other for format supremacy with the next generation of

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There is a joke that goes something like this:Two enlisted guys are in a public restroom, one is Army the other Navy. When they have finished at the urinals, the Army guy goes to wash his hands while the Navy guy heads for the door. The Army guy says, "In the Army they teach us to wash our hands after pissing" to which the Navy guy responds, "In the Navy they teach us not to piss on our hands".

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I never used to think of myself as arrogant. Certainly, I know what I know and have no doubts about it - afterall if you didn't think you were right, you wouldn't think it would you?. But arrogant? Moi?Not too long ago, I was visiting my sister in sunny California (yes, my luck held out and the 8 month long dry season ended while I was there...) and we stopped by a typically trendy drinking

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My stream of consciousness beginnings to these entries hasn't failed me yet and today is no exception!Except that it is. Over the last few months I've come up with any number of things that would be fun and interesting to write about but the very instant that I sit down to do it, they fly from my brain like lemmings from a cliff. This isn't the first time either - my brain seems increasingly

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Never being one to pass up the opportunity to wax poetic on the vagaries and complexities of the British way of life, I found myself wonderfully engaged in a brief discussion on Knighthood. I'm for it. I loved the original idea behind a Knighthood - rewarding and recognising a British citizen for duties above and beyond the call, but find the title sadly watered down by giving it away to

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Well - after my last supremely wonderful post that simply pwned the problem, I get home last night to do some more fiddling and take some pictures (below) and find the "fixed" drive no longer accessing. Figures. In typical Adam-fashion, I had over-engineered the solution and it turns out it is much simpler than I thought...Before I get to that though, here are the steps I took to swap out the

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Okay - quick update on the data recovery ongoing drama... I swapped out the PCB cards mounted on the two hard drives and found that I was able to access the data on the "broken" drive. That should mean that I can take an image of each of the two drives using the Runtime Data RAID Reconstructor software one at a time, then use the same software to stitch them back together into a single drive

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Well, maybe not...So we come back from vacation on Saturday only to discover that my home server had crashed worse than an epileptic driving a robin reliant. I had a RAID 0 array setup for performance (two hard drives, striped data, half goes to one drive, half to the other) into a 500GB combined drive - one of the drives failed thereby losing all of my data. Arrogance flowing freely, I never

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I started weightlifting last weekend - one more attempt at actually doing something good for me! A friend of ours gave us a weight bench with a set of olympic weights and a nice 45 pound bar - then proceeded to kick my ass with a workout the likes of which my body has never known! To be honest the workout was great, it was just another case of the mind being willing but the body... not so much.

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We just picked up a new digital camera after our old one decided it no longer wanted to cooperate with us... We'd been using a Kodak Easy Share z740 for a couple of years and absolutely loved it - a little bulky like the first round rejects from "America's next top model", but took great pictures with minimal effort. Something buggered it up though and the lens stopped extending when we turned

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So, I was talking with my wife the other day (that's right, my wife - sorry ladies) and we got to talking about how rude some people can be... Our discussion actually started on children's increasing disrespect for their parents - for God's sake, they gave you life and you're pissed because they ask you to do something?! Where the hell does that attitude come from?! Your parents don't owe you

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So - after the posting about coffee, I was dismayed to discover that the people I was lunching with don't drink coffee! One even had the effrontery to state that he'd never had a cup in his life! OMG - have you been living under a rock?! But wait - while my friend doesn't drink coffee, he is addicted to energy drinks... and what is the primary component for providing energy? That's right!

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I love coffee - not just like - true, deep, sweaty, slightly disturbing love. I, along with many similarly addicted people around the world, do not do well without atleast 3 or 4 cups of coffee each and every day. I start the morning with a giant tub of the stuff that I usually finish before I reach the interstate - a good thing for all other motorists I'm sure.I sometimes wonder where we would

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Well - after a slew of reviews from the two of you who actually read my blog, I am amazed to discover that people agree with me about the whole bathroom privacy and anonymity issues! This shocking development further emboldens me to continue waxing lyrical about all manner of salubrious happenings and turn this blog truly into an allegory of monumental proportions! (how many times did I refer to

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On my second coffee already and it's not even 9... I foresee a future of many many bathroom breaks - should help break up the day at least. Always interesting in the men's room - most people don't even seem to think about it, but you can tell a lot about a person by their bathroom habits... For instance, what does it say about a guy when he's using a urinal and grunting every two to three seconds

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I never know how to start something like this... I'm not one for sharing my innermost thoughts with anyone and everyone, so why did I start this blog? I recently started a new career track, Project Management - maybe that accounts for it!The wonderful world of Project Management! I've been heading in this direction for a while and now that I'm here, I'm not entirely sure what I should be doing

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