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So, I spoke with my friend Edo last night and he pointed out that this blog is kind of boring right now. I love that he can be totally honest with me. Anyway, for the couple of you who know about this site, a note: Eventually there will be a more formal “Blog” section to [...]

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I went to Starbucks for coffee yesterday and I went to Caribou for coffee this morning. Both have their holiday cups out in force, which is just wrong. It’s not even Thanksgiving yet and I am not ok with this premature holiday celebration. Don’t get me wrong. I love the Christmas season. I love everything [...]

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Google SMS is my new favorite thing. Thanks to Gaper’s Block for the tip. I am absolutely addicted to their SMS service. You can use your mobile phone to get information by text message direct from Google. As Google explains, “Send your query as a text message and get phone book listings, dictionary definitions, product [...]

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I’m not what you’d call obese or chronic fat, but like many women after another Christmas binge eating and drinking (was on the seafood diet, I SEE food and eat it I’ve put on a lot more weight, especially belly fat and my ass looks HUGE, move over Beyonce I look flabby around the waist [...]

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I had breakfast this morning with my friend Jayne. As always the conversation was good and we had a nice time catching up over coffee and eggs. It was raining and after breakfast we decided to walk for a bit. We decided to walk despite the rain and even though I had an umbrella in [...]

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Every strong, quality relationship, from time to time, is beset with arguments. So it was last night with one of my closest relationships. I had a fight with my TiVo. I know, I know. Everyone who knows me knows that I usually have nothing but praise for my TiVo. We’re such a great couple. How [...]

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Did I actually once say that I thought that I wouldn’t buy World of Warcraft? Call me a fool. Please. As you might have guessed I fell utterly, deeply in love with the World of Warcraft. Any time not spent researching (generally in the wee hours of the morning) was spent exploring and leveling in [...]

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I had breakfast this morning with my friend Paolo from Milan Italy. Paolo teaches screen writing and the business of television in Milan and we had a wonderful conversation about the state of television both here in America and over in Europe. What was perhaps even more interesting, however, was to discuss the state of [...]

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So I guess we still don’t have a president. I was watching the election result last night and it occurred to me that they are unique in that they are simultaneously thrilling and quite boring at the same time. Anyway, I’m ready for this all to be over.

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I stumbled on some interesting information about the number of doctors in various countries, what shocked me most was the releative low number of doctors in the UK to similar sized developed countries. If you look at the image below you can see the UK has significantly fewer doctors than France or Germany which are [...]

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