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Entries from March 2007

Body Worlds

March 31st, 2007 · 4 Comments

Gisele, Derek and I went to “Body Worlds” this week. If you haven’t heard about this, it’s an exhibit of real human bodies that have undergone a process called “plastination”. Water and fats from body tissues are replaced with plastic “polymers”. The result is bodies completely preserved and natural looking in various poses and levels […]

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Tags: Computers, Tech & Science · Family Updates

Big Apollo

March 22nd, 2007 · 10 Comments

You’ve been asking for updated pictures of Apollo, so here he is. It’s amazing how fast he has grown!

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Vista

March 6th, 2007 · 19 Comments

I installed Microsoft’s new OS, Vista, on a friend’s computer. Here are my impressions: General: With the short time I’ve used it, it doesn’t seem very revolutionary. It seems about as different from XP as XP is from Windows 2000. The interface is fancier, more colorful, but most features are the same as on XP, […]

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Tags: Computers, Tech & Science