delmer on August 9th, 2010

You’ve all been there. You go away for the weekend, decide to stretch it out for a week, your blog explodes, you don’t realize if for days, when you do find out it’s down you can’t fix it remotely and even a Mike O reboot does nothing to get it going. You finally get back [...]

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delmer on July 19th, 2010

One of my oldest friends, Roy, called me the other day. Longtime readers of WADLL will recognize him as the person who tried to kill me on the basketball court several Thanksgivings ago. A little bit into the conversation Roy asked if everything was okay. When I told him things were great he said he’d [...]

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delmer on July 15th, 2010

While bounding around the Internet earlier I ran across the I Write Like website. Depending upon the post I used, I write like: Mark Twain, when I talk about caterpillars making your teeth fall out. James Joyce, when I mention oddly-pronounced Ohio cities. David Foster Wallace, when I drone on about parallel parking and guns [...]

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delmer on July 6th, 2010

test Does uploading photos work? Yep And posting from LiveWriter? Yep   … time passes … And now we’ve come to the part where things went nutty a before.

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delmer on May 20th, 2010

This is a screen shot of my Google Reader.   What can I say… things like this tickle me. I’d never noticed the “Sort by magic” option before, but I feel better knowing it’s there. Technorati Tags: Google Reader,Google Magic

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delmer on March 19th, 2010

What more is there to say? Over the past 5 years I’ve posted over 1,771 items. According to a plugin I tried out that comes to 675,241words, or 381 words per post. I would have thought it was more, but in my defense, I use moderately-big words like “moderately” and I’m thinking hyphenated words are [...]

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delmer on January 31st, 2010

I’m a month late with this, but I noticed I was a month late last year and I thought I’d go with it. I read 52 novels this past year. A lot of Janet Evanovich, some David Baldacci, Jim  what’s-his-name… he writes the Dresden Files stuff. I think this is the year I read the [...]

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delmer on November 29th, 2009

A rerun per my July 5th, 2009 note to you all. Edited a hair. Originally posted September 2, 2005. Once in a while I will Google for a long-lost friend. Or someone I knew when I was younger. Or I’ll have an I-wonder-whatever-happened-to someone moment. Oftentimes the Googling returns hit after hit for a person [...]

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delmer on November 1st, 2009

A sort of rerun, per my July 5th, 2009 note to you all.   Way back in September of 2005 I had the following Good vs. Evil rating by the Gemantriculator You’ll notice things have improved a touch in the four years that have passed.       Technorati Tags: Gemantriculator

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delmer on October 29th, 2009

As you know, when you write a blog post you are able to hear, in your head, both sides of any conversation you might be having. You know the tone of the conversation, the spirit of the conversation, and you’re privy to all the subtle conversational nuances that went on. You can only hope you [...]

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