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March 2004 - Posts

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  Welcome an ER Doctor to the World of Blogging

  Never let it be said that the world of blogging belongs just to us techies. I feel that there are a lot of other professions that could take advantage of blogging, and its ability for a small, very specialized segment of the population to be able to commiserate Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 30, 2004 5:44 PM by donxml | 2 Comments

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  Weird NJ – The Web Site

  If you don’t live in NJ, and read this blog, odds are you never read the semi-regular magazine Weird NJ . What is Weird NJ? It is basically a magazine dedicated to the places that you will not find on your typical map, travel based website, or history Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 30, 2004 1:54 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

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  Rory Is the 21st Century Equivalent of Jean Shepard

  I love the classic movie A Christmas Story and recently bought the 20th anniversary DVD (which is a must have for any fan of A Christmas Story ). In all the extras they mention the book In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepard a bunch of times, Read More... Posted Sunday, March 21, 2004 2:06 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

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  15 Year Anniversary

  Today is my 15 th wedding anniversary. Yep, Melissa and I have been married 15 years. It is no small feat for anyone to put up with me for 15 years, day in and day out. I have no idea how the woman does it. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | Read More... Posted Friday, March 12, 2004 8:31 AM by donxml | 7 Comments

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  Local Jersey Webloggers Meetup Sponsered by NJ.com

  NJ.Com (aka The Star Ledger ) is sponsoring a Jersey Webloggers Meetup , for Wed. March 17 at 7PM at The Dancing Goat Café in South Orange. This is different than the DevDinners ScottW and I promote, and is geared towards the non-techie bloggers. Read More... Posted Thursday, March 11, 2004 6:30 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

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  Blogging Aggregator Tools

  This is just an FYI for all the new folks that read my blog and still use the old fashion method to read blogs, via a browser (like Internet Explorer). There is a much better way to keep up to date with your favorite bloggers, use a Blogging (aka RSS) Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2004 12:04 PM by donxml | 6 Comments

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  Alton Brown’s Rants and Raves

  I didn’t realize that Alton Brown (you know that crazy guy who does the show Good Eats on the TV Food Network ) has a website , and a blog (but no RSS feed :( ) . I hate the pop up window navigation he has on the site (who thought up that crap), Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2004 9:24 AM by donxml | 2 Comments

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  Chris "Flash" Sells

  In talking to Chris Sells about some of the music he listened to as a kid, I found out that he was a big fan of the Flash Gordon movie (the lame one from the 80’s) when he was growing up. And that got me thinking: Introducing Chris “ Flash Read More... Posted Thursday, March 04, 2004 7:35 PM by donxml | 2 Comments

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