No surprises here, really:

Parents are ‘party-training’ kids - CNN.com

From the age of 3, David has been a political instrument for his parents:
“Sure, we cringe when we see a child wear an anti-choice shirt,” Kaplan says. “And I am sure conservatives may do the same when they see David wearing our family’s politics on his chest. [...]

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Jen and I each got iPhones when they came out last summer, and we both love them. (Yes, we got our $100 rebates.) Since then, I’ve dropped mine once from hip height onto a carpeted floor; I wasn’t even worried. As for Jen, I’m not sure what sort of torture she has put her iPhone [...]

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I spent 5 days in New York at the end of January (and again at the end of March, for that matter). The trips have been for work, and so far Jen and Evan have stayed at home. But there’s been talk of them joining me on another trip later in the year. We’ll see. [...]

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Our new MacBook arrived a couple days ago! This is one of the brand new laptops from Apple running on a 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo CPU. This new laptop, which will mainly be Jen’s computer, will replace the Graphite iBook that we previously used in the kitchen and family room area. We only ever [...]

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I got an email from a friend today, a relatively recent convert to Macintosh computers and the Mac OS X operating system. Here’s what his subject-less email said:
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:22:59 -0800
From: (name hidden)
To: Steve Hackstadt
Subject:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/osx-fiveyears.ars
(What can I say, he’s not a longwinded fellow!) If you follow that link, you can read [...]

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For the first time in a a long time, I am taking time off from work between Christmas and New Year’s. In fact, it’s quite a good deal this year as I get 10 consecutive days off for taking only 4 vacation days! (The stock market is closed on both Monday 12/26 and Monday 1/2.) [...]

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You know that when Jen has two posts in a row on the blog, something must be up with Steve! (Just kidding, honey! Hahaha.) Anyway, it would seem that my blogging and photo gallery activities have fallen victim to other endeavours as of late. What have I been up to, you ask?

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Joel Spolsky has written an entertaining article called Hitting the High Notes in which he ponders whether it makes sense to talk about a company having the “best” programmers. In this day and age of cost reductions and outsourcing, Joel bucks the conventional wisdom and makes a case for quality. Here’s an excerpt:
Essentially, design adds [...]

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The rumors are true. And now it’s no wonder why Intel CEO Paul Otellini recently told people they should buy a Mac…. Apple has just announced that Otellini’s company will be supplying the chips for Macs starting in 2006! We’ll be hearing a lot more about this in the days and weeks ahead….

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If I told you that the CEO of Intel Corp.–the very company that makes the CPUs on which Windows runs–revealed that he spends an hour each weekend scrubbing spyware off his daughter’s PC, you’d probably accuse me of engaging in a little friendly hyperbole. If I told you he thinks you should buy a Mac [...]

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