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2008 is the Year of the Rat.  Which animal year were you born in?

I was born in the year of the Horse! I didn't know that.

My daughter's talent show performance. Not on YouTube because, um, you know, lawyers, copyrights, whatever.

Windows, Mac, Linux - What's your preference and why?
Submitted by ramblingsbymark.

Well, I go both ways - Mac and Windows. I was at Microsoft for over 3 years and certainly know how to make things work pretty well. However, Mac has some very good feel and convenience - I rarely play with my configurations or have to adjust any system stuff on Mac. I'm looking at that stuff all the time on Windows for some reason. Just the other night Windows decided after a bad DVD burn that I no longer had DVD burners on my system. Rebooting, removing the drives, nothing would convince my burning programs (I have several) that there was a valid DVD-R/RW drive (let alone 2!) on the machine.

I had to use the Omega-13 device, ie.: System Restore. I went back in time a few days and voila, my drives were back. I still don't know exactly what got changed, and if anything I did got lost but at least I got stuff working.

Of course, with the Mac, I had to send the batteries that tend to blow up back to Apple.

So, bottom line - I use both, will continue to use both, but less current annoyance with Mac.

On my other blog, I was having fun with photoshop.

http://www.howardgreenstein.com/blog/archives/2006/07/pass_it_on.html

I'm still here. I just took a few days to not be here.

I have a new podcast. Not yet sharing it widely, but you can listen (start with episode 1 or 3, 2 has some audio problems) at http://achatandasong.podshow.com/ and the intent is - a short chat by me and one really good, "podsafe" song that I found the week of the show.

This is a parody of the "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads, from VH1's "Best Week Ever." It is spit-milk-out-your-nose funny.

What was your most memorable or favorite school field trip?

We went to Washington DC in High School for a Model UN trip, and there was a blizzard. Some activities were cancelled, but my friends and I found out that government buildings are not closed during blizzards like that. We went to monuments and museums and they were empty. We saw the Declaration of Independence and got to stare at it for as long as we wanted.
 I was at the top of the Washington Monument with my classmates and no one else, looking at the snow-covered city. Beautiful and fun. 

The current meme seems to be posting the oldest digital photo you have around. This one is from 1998. From the small box in the background you can see we were moving. We got a digital camera because we had recently had our first child.

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Then I'll write some really interesting stuff. :-)