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Entries from March 2007

Four redheads

March 28th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I don’t have a great picture yet, but Lola arrived on Monday, making it a household of four redheads. She is a beautiful dog with an amazing temperament. Apparently from good breeding, her father, Don Corleone just won Best of Breed at Cruft’s. They obviously had fun naming these dogs. Lola is short for Lolita.
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Tags: dogs

TiVo, where art thou?

March 24th, 2007 · 1 Comment

One of the things I missed intensely from the States was TiVo. Like broadband, its hard to know how you lived without TiVo. No control over what I watch?! How barbaric. We did bring a loaded TiVo box with movies, but I couldn’t get it to work as just a recorder here.
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Tags: media · stuff

Welcome competition

March 24th, 2007 · No Comments

Gabe nonchalantly asked me to clear the photos off his camera. Frankly I was a bit stunned at a few of the shots he had taken, including this honey. I’m not sure this JPG does the photo justice. The colors and light were just fabulous.

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Tags: Gabe · photos

Plain Jane

March 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

The A&E/BBC version of Pride & Prejudice is the best Jane Austen adaptation, hands down. It may be one of the best films I have seen. I haven’t watched it as much as Lisa, but easily it has been on more than fifty times in the house (I even ripped the audio from the series [...]

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Tags: film

Work?

March 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

The beauty of having clients in Ireland is that in many cases something like this is right up the road. That takes the sting out of a company visit, wouldn’t you say?

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Tags: work