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A watershed day in my marriage

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jan 4th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Last night at 9 PM EST, something incredible happened in my marriage. Michelle sat on the couch with me, watched an entire episode of Dr. Who, and enjoyed it.
Really, you have no idea how big this is. For 17 years of marriage I’ve been forced to the basement to enjoy my sci-fi. With the […]



Elsewhere on the Internet (January 3rd 09:43)

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jan 4th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

FARK.com: (4119224) Why Canada’s Highway of Heroes is a model of how other nations should salute their war dead. Or, other nations could just keep bringing them back on cargo flights to military bases at 3 a.m (pic) – Something else that Canada does better than the US



Elsewhere on the Internet (January 2nd 11:07)

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jan 3rd, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Scene stealer: The aXXo files – Features, Films – The Independent – Interesting article on filesharing



Don’t worry. Be happy.

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jan 2nd, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

My buddy Mike at Techdirt has a fantastic post up about how he stays upbeat given that he spends many hours a day blogging about clueless and/or corrupt business executives and politicians. Even with all the forces aligned against it, the human experience continues to march forward. New business models come to the surface […]



Airtran sucks, but you probably already knew that.

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jan 2nd, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Another innocent American family has been hassled for FWM. (Flying While Muslim).
Even worse, the Federal government says Airtran did nothing wrong.



Elsewhere on the Internet (January 1st 16:58)

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jan 2nd, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

FARK.com: (4116764) Congratulations to the winners of Fark’s 2008 Headline of the Year contest –



Elsewhere on the Internet (January 1st 10:09)

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jan 1st, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

FOXNews.com – Zune Extinction Event: Microsoft Music Players All Freeze Up at Once – Science News | Science Technology | Technology News – MS forgot to account for leap year and thousands of 30 B Zune music players stopped working today as a result.



Happy New Year

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jan 1st, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

So I won the Ticket to Ride game last night, which gave me the honor of picking the next game. I picked Scrabble, which was stupid because I never win at Scrabble. I was in the lead in game 2 last night all the way to the final play, where Michelle used all her letters […]



The ghosts of New Years Eve past

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Dec 31st, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

2007
Free babysitting
So dinner and a movie
is the plan. We suck.
We are real party animals eh?
Update: Got to Bonefish about 6 PM, 1 hour wait for a table. Put our name on the list and went down the street to Caribou Coffee. Came back at 7 PM, got a table, enjoyed an excellent dinner. Left restaurant […]



13 years of ODonnellWeb

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Dec 31st, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

(This is an edited repeat post, because I’m lazy that way)
It was a cold and windy one, that night of Dec 31, 1995. OK, actually I have no idea if it was cold or windy. What I do remember is that my wife was 7+ months pregnant with out daughter, so we weren’t going anywhere […]