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Hannah mania has struck my home.  My eight year old daughter and her mother have two tickets to tonight’s Hannah Montana show in Tampa.  Thankfully, we didn’t need to endure the insanity some folks did to get tickets.  I’m thrilled for her that she gets to see her hero live.  Heaven knows she’s invested plenty of time studying every episode of her show on the Disney channel.  I’m more thrilled that Miley Cyrus is Abbi’s choice of role model versus Britney or Paris.  I’m also looking forward to a quiet night home with the boys.  It truly is the best of both worlds.

– steve

As a seasoned WordPress user (all 14 days or so) I have discovered that about half of the sites I visit on the Internet are wp sites.  Even the ones that don’t look like it or have anything to do with blogging are managed via wp.  Don’t belive me?  Try this:  try adding /wp-admin to the end of the address — like this  www.example.com/wp-admin If a logon page appears, voila, its a wp site.

Statistic:  a Google search of wp-login.php returns 2,050,000 results.  I guess that makes me unique, like everybody else.

– steve

I found an exact replica of a play thing from my childhood today. As kids, my brother and I each had a dartgun. I remember them being accurate from 30 feet or more. I could hardly pass up the opportunity to try one again. Here are the results of my first 8 shots. Not too shabby. Now, the trick will be hiding this from my kids until they are 25 years old.

– steve

Have you ever been to a website that forces you to register your email address to proceed? If it’s not a site you are sure you will ever come back to or care about again, you risk receiving endless junk mail from them if you hand over your real address. I don’t appreciate junk mail. I doubt most people do. Let me share one of my secrets with you. Mailinator.com

Make up a fake mailinator address and register it with the not-so-sure site that you are visiting, then you can proceed at that site. If you need the mail that site sends you, go get it from mailinator. It’s not secure or anything so only use it for stuff you don’t care if the world sees. It’s a brilliantly simple tool, written by a sharp guy. His blog is interesting too, if you’re in to that kind of thing (and you obviously are).

– steve

I took a week off work just before Halloween. The intent was to find that sweet spot in Florida’s weather were it almost feels like there is a shift in season. I missed it. It was warm and rainy that week and I spent it not doing much of anything really. Today, while driving home for lunch I realized this is the week I should have taken off. It’s perfect. I mostly wanted to post this so when I look back next year I’ll know exactly when to vacation.

– steve