A Different Perspective

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Yep. I took the plunge. Again.
Proposed on a secluded beach outside of Malibu last night.
More details to come… No date set, yet, but it could be as early as the end of summer.
Edited: Sorry, this was an April Fool’s joke. I posted a comment saying “read the date” when my friend Mike fell for [...]

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I’ve had that changed version in my head all week. Singing, “I fought the law, and I won!”
Yes, I won. I went to court on principle. I came to a complete stop before turning right on red, and I was not going to pay the ticket unless I was found guilty at trial.
And the cop [...]

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I received a small amount of justice yesterday.
It appears that Van Nuys Superior Court Commissioner Martin Wegman thinks I deserve the chance to be innocent…
I posted earlier about the possibility that I could not afford to be “not guilty.” It was going to cost me $381 to have my day in court. Evidently, the L.A. [...]

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I’ve begun a standard practice of checking any purchase I am thinking about on iTunes with Amazon MP3. I love being able to download an MP3 instead of a file I can only play on my computer or iPod (or burn it to a CD… for a set number of times.
So right now, I’m downloading [...]

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I just received a couple copies of Out of The Ooze, a collection of articles from www.theooze.com.
My article, “Church Restructure” appears on page 153. This is the first time I’ve been published in book form, though I’m close to completing a proposal which should get accepted rather quickly.
Of course, you could scour The Ooze on [...]

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If you are powering your blog via WordPress, there’s a new plug-in developed by my friend, Scott Allen at Hybrid 6 Studios, which eliminates almost all the automated comment spam.
I’ve tried it out, and it works great. Try it, and even if you’re using Akismet, you’ll notice you don’t have the tons of Akismet spam [...]

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Just had a Vegas trip totally suck due to the flu. I could barely think yesterday. Now, at least, my mind is clear. Still very achy, though. Probably won’t hear much from me for a couple of days…
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I upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1, and all of a sudden all of my posts, categories and archives are showing as not found when you click on the links. Working on it…
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I got out, Spencer and company should be leaving right now. I hope their plane didn’t get canceled. When I left, it was the latest one from American Airlines which had not yet been canceled.
I’m trying to get on an earlier flight to Los Angeles right now. I think I’ll be on, but so far [...]

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