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Hear what people are saying about Adam!

Dedicated and fights for what is right.

Focuses on quality in his work.

I like his listening skills. Adam is always ready to help others.

Always provides excellent out of the box thinking for technical problems.

Excellent and well rounded technical skills. Amazing code documentation. Very good at trying out new technologies and integrating them into your projects. I learn things from him! I can tell he has a passion for this stuff, which is a rare commodity.

If I ever have any tech questions Adam is the first person I would ask. I appreciate how he gets things done without complaining.

Adam seems to always have a positive, happy attitude. Sometimes things at work can burden us, but Adam will say something funny and everyone will laugh even early on a Monday. Thanks!

Great sense of detail and ability to find things that others overlook. Passion for the job, quality, and the people is evident in everything he does.

A patient collaborator that values your input.

Kind Joel

Tonight Joel went to be with Owen, a stuffed puppy. Alyssa came out of her room and said that she couldn’t sleep without Owen, so I went in Joel’s room and asked if she could have Owen. He said no and Alyssa started bawling. After a couple of minutes, Joel called out to me and gave me Owen, saying that Alyssa could have him. What a wonderful gesture from a 3 year old.

Anything

(via email)

Mom: If you could have anything for your birthday, what would you pick?

Me: … it would be to wake up in the morning rested and jumping out of bed instead of dreading getting up and cursing life.

Mom: (no response yet)

New Home Phone

We bought a new home phone system from Costco over the weekend. It’s pretty sweet because it connects to our cell phones via Bluetooth. Now, if we want to make a free long-distance using our cell phone, we can pick up one of our home phones to do it. Also, if someone calls one of our cell phones, it will ring on our home phone. Cool, huh?!

Updated: added link.

Vtech Expandable 4-Handset Cordless Phone with Digital Answering System and Cellular Bluetooth Connection

iContact

I have the tendency to use different emails for different things I sign up for. For example, I signed up with the Postsecret newsletter with the email of postsecret@<domain>.org. This way if I ever start getting spam from them I can easily turn off that email.

Well, today I received a virus addressed to that email! My email was sold, leaked, stolen or otherwise somehow acquired by a spammer. The company that maintains the Postsecret list is iContact. So, if I were you, I would stay away from them!

I found this to work pretty well as a command prompt shortcut. You can copy the file to any directory and it will open the command prompt in that directory while also running a script to set the environment.

Target: %COMSPEC% /K [script name]
Start in: %CD%

Wow. This is messed up. Here is a table of the browsers I have at my disposal and the returned value from the JavaScript variable “navigator.appVersion”.

Browser navigator.appVersion
Chrome 5.0 5.0
Opera 10.00 9.80
IE 8.0 4.0
IE 7.0 4.0
IE 6.0 4.0
Safari 4.0 5.0
Safari 3.2 5.0
Firefox 3.6 5.0
Firefox 3.5 5.0
Firefox 2.0 5.0

Ok browser makers. Let’s start over. I don’t think any site is using the navigator.appVersion anymore so now is as good of time as ever to start fresh. What do you say?

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The vet called last night and said that the lump on Lexi’s underbelly was malignant but only a level one which means it hasn’t spread to the rest of the body. But the fax they sent me from the lab says it’s at a level 2 and “deep invasion”. :rolleyes: Dogs with this level usually live for another 70 months (about 6 years). I guess the fact that there was “no lymphatic invasion” is a good thing.

Report on Lexi's "mass"

Report on Lexi's "mass"

Some text from the report: Although the tumor cells were well-differentiated the deep invasion warrants a grade II category based on the scheme of patnaik. Current literature suggest grade II mast cell tumors with low mitatic rates as seen in this case have a median survival time of 70 months.

Hrm…. that’s the first place “tumor” has shown up. :(

Lexi’s surgery went fine. They cleaned her teeth while she was under, too. And she got a vaccination. We won’t know what the lump was for at least another week.