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	Happy Birthday Amanda Sept. 27, 2005 was my oldest daughter’s 16th birthday, and I just wanted to say “Happy Birthday”. She’s a high school junior, and that means we have been researching colleges (actually, we have been doing this for a long time already).  She’s into Forensic Sciences and the Performing Arts, so we have been looking for good schools for forensics, with an eye on some performing arts.  Somehow (and I don’t know where she got this ability) she has perfect pitch and can actually sing (that couldn’t have been inherited from me).  She is interested in a bunch of schools, with University of West Virginia highest on the list (at the moment), since their forensics program is done in conjunction with the FBI.  If you have any other suggestions on forensics schools, I’d love to here them.  Being 16 also means dating, and I’m dealing with that as best as I can.  I’m an imposing figure, so scaring the boys off isn’t hard, just not always the right thing to do.  Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Published Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:12 PM by donxml Filed under: Random Access Comment Notification If you would like to receive an email when updates are made to this post, please register here Subscribe to this post's comments using RSS Comments Louis Davidson said: Oh man, I feel for you. My daughter hits 16 on the 5th of October. September 28, 2005 3:23 PM Sahil Malik said: WOW 16nth? Man I seriously thought you were in your early 20s or sump'n. October 3, 2005 10:16 AM

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I’m an independent consultant, specializing in .Net solutions architecture, based out of New Jersey who also doubles as an evangelist for XML, Domain Driven Design, enterprise architecture and .Net. I do not work for Microsoft, the W3C or any other big company that you may know of (at least not yet). I’ve been an indie for over ten years, and although I’ve been tempted a couple times to take a job with companies like Microsoft, I’ve haven’t found something better than my current situation. I work mostly with the large pharmaceuticals that are based here in New Jersey, and usually find myself on long term contracts. Definitely not the prototypical indie consultant, but it lets me dedicate time to my non-income generating activities like the developer community stuff, plus financing open source projects like XPathmania and MVP-XML. If you would like to talk to me about doing some contract work, just contact me via the contact page. My rates vary widely, depending on lots of different variables, but mostly distance from Jersey, and type of work. Plus, I’ve been known to donate some of my code for various projects.