I bought a new laptop yesterday. Dell has a 20% off deal on the 6000 series of laptops, which PCWORLD magazine gave some of their highest marks. Its a bit heavy at 7.5 lbs but is a powerful machine and the battery lasts around 5 hours. Read the review here. I should get it in about two weeks

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While putzing around the internet yesterday I happened to find a book “Blades of Glory” by John Rosengren. It is a story of the Bloomington Jefferson Hockey team from the 2000-01 season. My sophomore year at Jefferson we won the state championship. See the book at Amazon.com

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WordPress is acting really weird. The theme I was using crashed and some of the features are broken. I’m feeling a bit under the weather today, but I’ll look into it soon.

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After firing Mike Tice on Sunday, the Vikings have already filled the position. Today the announced the hiring of Brid Childress, Eagles offensive coordinator. HOFer Bud Grant was involved in the interviewing process and is a big supporter of Childress. Childress does have a winning past. Until this season, when injuries piled up, the Eagles had won at least 11 games every season since Childress became offensive coordinator in 2002 and also appeared in last years Super Bowl.

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My folks closed on a condo on Tuesday in Port Aransas, TX. They plan on staying staying there yearly during the cold months and renting it out the rest of the year. Sure beat spending the winter in Minnesota!

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The web program that handles my photo album has a security issue. Fortunately there is a patch available to fix it. This patch will be run tonight and may cause the photo album link above to be broken for a little while.

The security issue appears to only effect a module that is used in having a shopping cart feature on the page, which I don’t use. But I’ll feel better after updating anyway.

Read about the patch here.

Note - Jan 6
There appear to have been problems with this upgrade and the photo gallery is causing a lot of errors. I will need to reinstall on Sunday or Monday.

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