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Reducing Shady ChatGPT Code Suggestions with Custom Instructions
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AI Tools: Is it Ethical? Legal?
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The critical value of the in-person “rock tumbler” for polishing products and people
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Flutter on Raspberry Pi — Fall 2022
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Remembering Cal Van Dyke
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“As Is” — This Old House, Day 0
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This Old House
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“Knob and Tube”
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Mueller “Netyksho” Indictment — an InfoSec Perspective
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The Case for Flutter
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Circle with Disney
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Thought-Ending Cliches
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Ninja, Master Chief, Snow Speeder–Travel Around The World
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Windows 8 Fatal Flaw – ARM Tablets only in Unmanaged Environments?
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EBook Innovations Needed
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Quit Bowling, and Start Digging Ditches – WCAGLS Day 1
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Maker Faire Detroit 2011
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Losing 70 pounds
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Silverlight Certification Test – Passed
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TalkTimer app for WP7
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Nook Simple Touch Reader – First Month
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Rebooting the blog in WordPress
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Lessons Learned: Craftsmen and artists of all types have a lot in common
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Why I make a fuss over the release of Visual Studio 2010
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iPad Hands-On Impressions
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Toastmasters for Techies
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Candyland, LCR, and Warstorm
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Book Review: Think and Make It Happen
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One Month of No Fast Food or Drive Thru
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What is hypervideo anyway?
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How I broke my arm and will now set off every metal detector
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Mouse Mischief: Multiple Mouse Support in PowerPoint with the MultiPoint Mouse SDK
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Silverlight Kata: IFS Fractals: Full Solution
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Silverlight Kata: IFS Fractals: The MessageBus
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Silverlight Kata: IFS Fractals: Automating the Transforms
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Silverlight Kata: IFS Fractals with TransformGroup and MessageBus
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Evaluating the iPad: Consumer vs. Creator vs. Cross Platform
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CodeMash Apps for iPhone
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What I Learned at the Silverlight Partner Summit 2009
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Post Interesting Links to Blog 12/08/2009
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Confusion and FUD around Silverlight PDC Announcements
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Post Interesting Links to Blog 11/27/2009
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Continuous Learning Lessons from Leaf Blowing
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Success in drying out waterlogged Laptop
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Why I am voting for Nessie
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Brother Color Laser Printer HL-4040CDN
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Fearless by Max Lucado
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Programming for Today’s Kids
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Post Interesting Links to Blog 07/31/2009
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Post Interesting Links to Blog 07/30/2009
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Kodu Review and First Impressions
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Homemade Kubb Set Plans and Report
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Post Interesting Links to Blog 06/30/2009
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NECC 2009 Themes
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Windows 7 Makes Vista Look Like “New Coke” – Tips and Impressions
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Silverlight 101 Presentation and Files from .NET University West Michigan 2009
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Tech Trends and Netbooks
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Marie Catrib’s Restaurant Review
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Outliers by Malcom Gladwell
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2009 Reading List – Already out of control
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What is CodeMash?
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2008 Retrospective
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What would make a good/great Netbook?
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Another reason I love Woot.
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ImplicitStyleManager – Hidden Gem in the Silverlight Toolkit November 2008
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MVC Beta – Non-GAC implementation
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World Animal Day – boston.com
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Silverlight IRL #2 – Fast Data Access w/ NHibernate
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Silverlight IRL – Requests
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Someone had to do it!
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Reason #458 People Don’t Like Computers
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Silverlight Proof-of-Concept – Top 10 Questions to Be Answered
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Lessons from Keynote #2 – Steve Jobs
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Lessons from Keynote #1: Bill Gates
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How I Got Started in Software Development
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MVC Tips and Tricks from WMDoDN 08
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Day 1 – Festival of Faith and Writing 08
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West Michigan FIRST Robotics Regional Competition
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Cool Tools: Window Clippings
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Florida Gem #2 – Honeymoon Island / Caladesi Island
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Cool Tools – ZoomIt v1.8
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Microsoft, Nokia Put Silverlight On Mobile Devices
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April issue of EGM reveals Bungie’s next project: Lego Halo – Joystiq
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Blogging Drought – Cheap Computer – ‘Bots on the Rock
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Lunar Eclipse 2008
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First "’Bots on the Rock" Meeting a Success!
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Microsoft DreamSpark
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Why I like Twitter
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Shuttle Launch Experience
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Florida Photos
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Vacation Update
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A few coming privacy / personal information services
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Lost English word – "delight" (and other vacation tangents)
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Missing You
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Draft of HTML 5 Hints at a Brave New Web
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Shuttle Launch Passes Arrived!
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Astronomy "Craft"?
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Retire Fire Extinguishers
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First Amazon non-DRM music purchase
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Computer Handyman and Plumber
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Tribot Sumo Test #1 – WallBot
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This can’t be a real picture … can it?
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Silverlight wins the Gold at the 2008 Olympic Games
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Mousetrap Cars – Any advice?
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Celestron – LCD Digital Microscope (LDM)
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2008 Goals – Take 2
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2008 Goals – Take 1
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2007’s Resolutions in Review
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New Scientist: The Santa Delusion
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Florida Freeze
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Heading "South" – Any Ideas?
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Programming WPF: Books: Chris Sells,Ian Griffiths
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15,000 digital pictures (& counting)
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Return of the Heathkit HERO – now with Visual Studio
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Passed a Microsoft test – last minute 2007 goal achieved!
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My Chumby
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BlogEngine.NET 1.3 released
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Surprise Hit – Play & Freeze Ice Cream Maker
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Merry Christmas
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The Bible According To Google Earth
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Bill Gates: The skills you need to succeed
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Now we’re talking!! ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview
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Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day – Saturday 12/8
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Blizzard Warning!! FOR HAWAII!!
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Cool Tool: Tourist Remover
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Bug vs. Feature
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First Lego League Regional Robotics Competition
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MS Math Add-In for Word 2007
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Survey: Few believe a good education is necessary
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6Gb of memory – Now What?!?
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Silverlight 2.0
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The Joy of Tech comic… laughter is the best tech support.
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Science Museum – Launchpad Online – Launchball
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Health Care
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Pet Peeve #26
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Oxford Word Of The Year: Locavore
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Chuck Norris Political Ad
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VS2008 on Vista x64
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Visual Studio 2008 plug-ins (warning Silverlight 1.1)
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Visual Studio 2008 Ships
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MapQuest, Google Maps, Virtual Earth, Yahoo? Anyone?
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Walking pneumonia
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Bowling for Junior Achievement
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Useless data – but interesting
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Made in America: By Robots
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Howtoons: The Possibilities Are Endless!
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My next car – ideas? Electric? Alternative Energy?
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If You’re Happy and You Know It…
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Day of .NET Ann Arbor
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"WIRED Science" on PBS
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Google Reader: Trends
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Any good new fall TV?
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Useful Microsoft Word Feature
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Show and Tell #5: Cub Scouts – Then and Now
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Statetris – USA
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Crazy Canadian Dime
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Michigan Legislature Bills RSS Feed
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Show and Tell #1: Life’s Experiments (1981)
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More Crystals
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Silverlight 1.0 Released
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Howtoons – The Infamous Marshmallow Shooter
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First Dangerous Crystal
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Mr. McGroovy’s Box Rivets
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Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta
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If you have to work in a cube …
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Remaining Collection/Addiction #1: Books
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Not Moving Sale
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Microsoft Open Source Projects
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Habits of Highly Effective Brains
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Sharpen the Saw for Developers
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Google Earth – No, Google Universe …
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Germany Exploring The Moon Too
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Tafiti (beta)
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Unskilled and Unaware of It
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The Dreyfus Model of Skills Acquisition
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64-bit Vista Oddness
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Crystal Experiment – Take 1
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Quad-Core Laptop
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Pessimistic Shipping Dates
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Water Weenies and Crystals
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Laptop vs. Desktop for Development
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Post from the Road
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Turn On Channel 8
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Starting fresh
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Genealogy made easy
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