I bought myself two presents over the break, one was a chrome diopside (dioxide a chemistry friend tells me) gem ring, pear shaped faceted stone surrounded by diamonds, yellow gold. That one came Monday
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My birthday is on Dec 31st, and I tend to keep to myself at least in the evening. This past birthday, I did go out for a birthday lunch with my son and a friend, shared a huge piece of cake
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Being that the BART Police shooting is WAY too close to home to enjoy, I am following the scandal in Hyderabad, India of Satyam, the outsourcing company that was cooking its books for a few years there
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http://www.theregister.co.uk has been a good read recently. From an East Indian company's shady accounting practices being outed by the economy too, to the news that Google is going to develop routers. Of course macworld scuttlebutt.
This seems important enough to re-post. This came from Science Daily Feed today. The Science Daily feed does put out a whole bunch of posts and can swamp an unfiltered friend's page, but it is really informative
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Finally I bought something. I have been so stingy for a couple months now. Think this whole economic situation is getting to me even though I still have my job and all
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