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I have hundreds of gigabytes of precious data, yet my backup plan was manual and inconsistent. I knew I needed some kind of safe, secure, regular backup plan. When Apple announced that Leopard would have a built-in backup feature called Time Machine, I figured that was a good excuse to be more rigorous about backup.

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Son loves tennis so much, we’re glad we were able to find him tennis lessons. The instructor has them play tennis “games” like Jail, which Son just loves. He’s really so much more advanced than the other kids, and he pays close attention to the instructor.

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Playing around in the studio today.

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Tufted titmouse at our backyard feeder.

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After Son’s picture day, we got in the car and drove to the grandparents’ house for an early Thanksgiving visit. On the way, we spent a few hours at the famous natural history museum. This is our third annual visit to the AMNH, you can read about our previous visits in November 2006 and November [...]

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Son had picture day at his school. He was very excited about having his hair gelled up into a spiky look.

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Well, all this time gone by, some of us started to wonder if it would ever happen. But it turns out she was really just waiting for the right guy. Sister has finally gotten married! View a photo gallery of Sister’s wedding.

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So I’m visiting Charlotte, NC for the occasion of my sister’s wedding. (more on the wedding later). I was fortunate to have a morning to walk around the “uptown” district, the heart of the city. I was expecting to like Charlotte a lot. My first impression of the city was a highly efficient airport, and [...]

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The kind of bowling they have around here is “duckpin”, which uses smaller balls than “regular” bowling. The small balls are perfect for children. Indeed, I think everybody at the alley today had kids with them, including two birthday parties.

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