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Let’s see if this makes me feel any better… I hate David McCarty - first baseman for the Boston Red Sox.  I cannot recall ever hating a Sox player with as much intensity as I hate McCarty.  It started with the fact that he stole Brian Daubach’s roster spot on the team coming out of the [...]

(a) What have I gotten myself into?  Do I have a problem saying ‘no?’  Perhaps.  I let LTJ talk me into becoming his blogging co-conspirator and all it’s done for me so far is increase my chances of getting an ulcer.  And that was just from my own web site navigation issues.  What will push me [...]

10. Google Groups - Great feature that has turned the long forgotten newsgroups (that I enjoyed from my BBS days) into a working messageboards system 9. In order to work there, you have to pass the GLAT (Google Labs Aptitude Test) 8. People + Google = Clever 7. Newly introduced Google Maps. Now with Satellite Imaging! You can [...]

I’ve beeen using GMail for quite a while now, and back around the first of the month Google announced that they were going to be increasing the Storage Capacity of all the e-mail accounts from 1 to 2 Gigs. Since this announcement, I’ve noticed my GMail capacity slowly increase over time. As of this writing, [...]

Seda’ Club with 50 Cent The birds are chirping, the sun is out, and the smell of spring is in the air.. This can only mean one thing: Passover. Yes, friends, it’s that time again.. where myself (being the Token Hebrew) takes on the task of eating unleavened bread for 7 days to remember the days of [...]

I was blessed to get a pair of tickets to yesterday’s game at Fenway vs. the Devil Rays.. the third game of the three-game series. And the Sox swept the Rays in formidable fashion. They’ve got 5 wins in a row, after today’s victory on Marathon Monday. [ Photos ] Yesterday’s game was absolutely fantastic! The [...]

Well, the good news is that I’m alive.  The bad news is that the First Annual Quincy Center Pub Crawl didn’t quite reach all its destinations.  I’m not sure how many bars we visited (I think Nurse Mandy said 13 last night; the dream was to hit 21), but we tried our best.  We kept [...]