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Vote Today!

Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:27 AM by plitwin
If you are an American citizen please vote today. (I voted bymail last week.) My name is Paul Litwin and I approved this message. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Sponsor Read More...
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Meanwhile Back Home...

Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 6:45 PM by plitwin
Meanwhile Back Home... Here I am complaining about too much to do in Vegas and back-home according to CNN ( http://www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/11/06/washington.flooding.ap/index.html ) it's raining like heck and one person has died in the flooding. Wow. Read More...
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Great Things from Gates Foundation and Google.org!

Posted Saturday, September 16, 2006 11:17 PM by plitwin
In today's terrible world (e.g., war in Iraq, the mess in Sudan, Bush trying to gut the U.S. Consitution and the Geneva Convention) it's easy to get down on things and miss two truly great things that happened this past week. On Sept 12th, the Read More...
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Where I Was 5 Years Ago

Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 10:00 PM by plitwin
I remember getting up with the baby (Anna) and letting in the nanny around 8:00 PST. The nanny says something along the lines "Did you hear that they flew a plane into the Word Trade Center and bought it down?" At the time Suzanne and I had Read More...
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Showering for Success

Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 8:27 PM by plitwin
Many years ago, Ken Getz, Mike Gilbert, Mike Gunderloy, Greg Reddick, John Viescas and I (and a few others) came together at work on a development project in a converted farm house somewhere in Virginia (in fact, today, I have no recollection where it Read More...
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Writing Courseware Sucks

Posted Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:28 PM by plitwin
I just got back from visiting the Vermont .NET Users Group today. The flight out this morning was early and I mean early! 6:00 AM which meant I had a wake up call at 4:15 AM, giving me about 3.5 hours of sleep. I rolled into the office about 1:30 PM-ish Read More...
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Arrived in Nice Today for DevConnections Europe

Posted Sunday, April 23, 2006 1:40 PM by plitwin
Sunday, April 23, 12:55 PM. Nice, France. Just arrived in Nice. We flew out at 8:30 AM on Saturday from Seattle through NY and Zurich and arrived a couple of hours ago. Of course, our luggage did not arrive with us (suprise, suprise). Last minute packing Read More...
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On Not Cutting Corners

Posted Thursday, November 24, 2005 8:56 AM by plitwin
So I am bicycling this past Sunday on the Burke-Gilman trail in Seattle. Trying to get my exercise in on a cool crisp day. In Fremont (a Seattle neighborhood) the trail is detoured because of work on the Fremont bridge (the trail normally goes under the Read More...
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Maybe I'm Amazed

Posted Tuesday, November 15, 2005 8:36 PM by plitwin
It's hard to believe but my diet/exercise regime is continuing to work as I inch closer to my goal weight. I lost six--count 'em--six pounds last week while I was in Vegas. (I was up 2 pounds the prior week so I perhaps it is more accurate to say I lost Read More...
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Call for Fellow Runners in Vegas

Posted Wednesday, November 09, 2005 12:16 PM by plitwin
Are you a runner at DevConnections Vegas? I'd love to have running partners. Robert Green and I will be running at lunch time today ( Wednesday ). If you are interested in coming along, we will be meeting about approximately 12:45-1:00 PM at the entrance Read More...
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On Getting Old and Losing Weight

Posted Monday, October 17, 2005 9:59 PM by plitwin
It's official. At this morning's weigh in I was down 11 pounds from my pre-diet weight that I started 5 weeks ago. Not bad for an old timer like me. Prior to June of 2004 I was running marathons, and while I was not nearly as slim as my running club partners Read More...
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