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Derek graduated from high school yesterday, so we no longer have any “kids” in the family. We do have a couple of young men in college, so that’s not a bad trade. Derek graduated 5th in a class of about 500. He was President of the National Honor Society his senior year and Saxophone Section […]

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They caught the man who killed our friend. See here. The wounded mother and father have been discharged from the hospital, and are staying at an undisclosed location. It feels good that he is not running around, and will have to pay for his insanity, but “feels good” is only relative, since our friend, Zhao […]

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These 3 were all friends of Gisele (and me). They went to Gisele’s church. We gave them our love seat when we didn’t need it anymore. I was at their house more than once to help with computer problems. They were such nice people. Every time we would visit they would try to feed us, […]

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I mentioned a few days ago about the spam fighting company “Blue Security”, with their program “Blue Frog”, and how they were in a war with spammers. Don just pointed out to me that it looks like the spammers won. BlueSecurity has given up and gone out of the spam fighting business. They said they […]

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We’ve got a little travel planned for the summer. Gisele is going to France for a tour of castles (“Chateaus”) the first couple of weeks of June. Then the first three weeks of July the whole family is going to Peru. We’re friends with a family who came from there and they have organized a […]

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There’s an interesting major Internet battle going on right now. There’s a company called Blue Security. (I won’t provide a link because they are down.) People can download their software (the Blue Frog) which sends emails to spammers whenever they receive a spam message. This overloads the spammers server, slowing them down or halting them. […]

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Version 1.5.0.3 has been released, less than 2 weeks after 1.5.0.2. Nothing major, just a security fix (which I guess is really pretty major). If you have automatic updates turned on, it will happen automatically, though you will have to restart Firefox to finalize the update. If you don’t have automatic updates turned on, you […]

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In 1797 the US Congress ratified, and President John Adams signed, the Treaty of Tripoli which proclaims, “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion“. This, barely 10 years after the Constitution was ratified, by many of the same people. There was no debate or […]

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