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No love for Amtrak tonight

Posted on 2008-08-05 by Jim Vanderveen

(NB: We went to San Francisco on Sunday. I’ll write about the rest of the trip later, but right now I need to vent!) Coming home from San Francisco yesterday got a bit too adventurous for my tastes. We made … Continue reading →

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We made it to the Richmond…

Posted on 2008-08-03 by Jim Vanderveen

We made it to the Richmond Bart Station right on time, but the Bart schedule didn’t say anything on the website about not running until 8 o’clock. So, we’re standing here in the Bart Station in the breeze, it’s 15 … Continue reading →

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It’s 7:00 in the morning…

Posted on 2008-08-03 by Jim Vanderveen

It’s 7:00 in the morning and we’re just about to Richmond, California. We’re taking Amtrak down to Richmond and then we’ll take Bart(?) in there in San Francisco already been up for 3 hours, guying(?) the San Francisco VPAD(?). listen … Continue reading →

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Caroline’s here!

Posted on 2008-08-02 by Jim Vanderveen

Caroline arrived about two hours ago, and we promptly whisked her out of the airport and over to Leatherby’s Creamery. She’s pretty exhausted from the trip, so I think we’ll wait until tomorrow to get some pictures.

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Caroline en route

Posted on 2008-08-01 by Jim Vanderveen

Caroline, our French exchange student this summer, left Paris a little over five hours ago. She should be somewhere over the Atlantic right now. She’s scheduled to arrive in Washington, DC in about three hours. Unfortunately, the final leg of … Continue reading →

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Mailinator spameter

Posted on 2008-07-29 by Jim Vanderveen

I was just checking out [Mailinator][], and I wondered: if I posted a “throw-away” email address here, how fast would the spam start rolling in? Well, there’s only one way to find out! M8R-3cqng3@mailin8r.com Once this post has been online … Continue reading →

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Caroline arrives next week!

Posted on 2008-07-26 by Jim Vanderveen

[Caroline][]’s flight is scheduled to arrive next Friday evening at 19:53, and we’re all pretty excited. It’s almost like Christmas, except it’ll last three weeks! Several people have been asking us about hosting, how we found out about this, etc. … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD openssl-stable broken

Posted on 2008-06-04 by Jim Vanderveen

While upgrading some software on one of our [FreeBSD][] servers at work, I ran into the following problem with openssl-stable: # cd /usr/ports/security/openssl-stable # make clean ===> Cleaning for openssl-stable-0.9.7m # make ===> Extracting for openssl-stable-0.9.7m => No MD5 checksum … Continue reading →

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Aerial remodel photo

Posted on 2008-05-17 by Jim Vanderveen

Google Maps managed to snap an image of our house right in the middle of construction. Look closely at the lot in the center of this aerial photo of our house. You can see piles of lumber in our front … Continue reading →

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California “hands free” law

Posted on 2008-05-15 by Jim Vanderveen

California passed a “hands free” cellular phone law almost two years ago, but it hasn’t gone into effect yet. That’ll change on July 1, a little less than seven weeks from today. Neither my wife nor I have purchased a … Continue reading →

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