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Player Pianos and .MP3's
Via ZDNet Australia ... What do .MP3's and Player Piano's have in common? They're both ways to play copies of music, right? But, under an 1899 (no, that's not a typo) case…
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How many spaces after a period?
Via Stuart Celarier who calligraphy and paleography in college and spent quite a bit of time with typography and type design. According to Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of…
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Decapitation?!
Via the WorldNet Daily News , an 26 year old American contractor, Nick Berg, was killed by beheading in Iraq recently. The video taped execution included a segment where Mr. Berg…
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Cutting the cord
Well, we've offically cut the Qwest Communications cord. What a liberating feeling! Don't get me wrong, I don't have specific animosity towards Qwest, I just disagree with…
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Blogging from MS Outlook?
I'm trying out a new method of posting to the blog. It's a little set of plug-ins for MS Outlook which function both as an RSS news aggregator as well as a blog posting front…
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Can I save you 1.2175 hours per year?
(Inspired by Levi's blog entry.) Using a new shoe-lacing and a new shoe tying technique, I've been able to save three seconds every time I put on my shoes or take them off!!…
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Pseudo-Fraud?
Ever see this on your credit card statement: "VISA-WLI*RESERVATIONREW888-6885995 CT?" This is a "service" that's free to sign up for... oh, and it only costs $5 to $9 per month…
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Spring Break
Another spring break has come and gone, and my list of things to accomplish over the break was a bit more realistic than in years gone by, but not fully realized, much to my…
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Alternative Energy and the Like
My buddy M c Kay has a blog entry about using Utah Power's wind-farm as his primary source of power. Funny, he also mentions in a passing note a reference to installing a solar…
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Voice over IP ready for widespread geek usage!
Via The Syracuse Broadband Internet Coalition, VOIP may be ready for the geekier among us (and our significant other won't kill us for cutting the local telco's cord! "We've been…
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This Year's Predictions (humor)
You forgot on major one... by the end of the year, Microsoft will be split into 82 companies loosly split at the "department" level, with dozens of others discontinued entirely…
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Happy Festive Winter Holiday Season
Ah... remember when we had actual holidays, with actual names that anyone could use and not be thought a bigot? Well, in the interest of political correctness: From all of us, to…
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Exploring CSS, XML, and XSLT
I'm tinkering around with the site... yes, again. My objective is to keep the site looking almost exactly as it does now, but use XHTML Strict and CSS 1 & 2 to render what's…
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Guns…
My buddy McKay has a blog... in a recent entry he speaks of firearms, to which some of the replies to his post are completely without merit. One reply gave statistics about…
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A wedding in Phoenix
Natalie and I just returned from a cousin's wedding in Phoenix, Arizona. Natalie wanted to drive... I won't say that I blame her, but it would have been faster than flying... How…
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driving the toyota prius
Despite my best efforts, I cannot locate a Honda Insight within a several hundred mile radius. This is contrary to the emails that I had with my local Honda dealer who told me…
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extortion?
Halloween is upon us again. After some considering, I've come to ponder the following: We dress our children in disguises, then send them door to door asking for candy, if the…
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california vote reinstated
In a suprise turn of events, the California recall election was reinstated. It would appear that, despite thier best efforts, democracy prevailed over the 9th "Circus" Court of…
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Daddy, that's where boogers come from!
The other night I was trying (unsuccessfully) to put Jessica Anne to sleep (2.5 years old), laying next to her on my bed. As I pretended to be alseep (hoping she'd take a hint)…
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Blessings
My left wrist has been giving me problems of late, nothing major, just occasional discomfort and limited range of motion. (No, Mom, it's not carpel tunnel.) Well, due to this…
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Joe Levi: Computer Geek (not Scribe)
Seeing how I'm really into technology, and not too much in the physically written word (not to mention that I can type much faster that I can hand-write), I've decided to attempt…
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appeals court delays california recall vote
It's a day of irony in the 9th "Circus" Court of Appeals today. In a move that shows just how hipocritical this Court is the California Recall Election has been blocked ( see…
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remembering johnny cash (1932-2003)
When I was a very young boy I had the opportunity of listening to the music that my father would play almost every night (for the whole house to hear). As a teenager I grew…
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Remembering September the Eleventh (Patriot Day)
September 11th, 2001 will live in infamy. Sound familiar? Franklin D. Roosevelt said something very similar on December 7, 1941 regarding Pearl Harbor 1 . "In the Japanese air…
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Happy Birthday to Me!
I am now 27 years old... I've passed from being in my mid-twenties to being in my late-twenties. I don't know if that's good or bad yet. For those of you who've already gotten…
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News Page Format Changed
After inputting a few entries into the news page, it seemed as though I was getting closer and closer to the function of a web log (or 'blog for those who aren't up with the…
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joe changes scenery
After being Sales Manager and Assistant Store Manager for Totally Awesome® Computers , Riverdale for several months he's finally gotten a change of scenery. Joe is now the…
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JoeLevi.com v2.0 goes live!
It's been a long time coming but after hardly any ado, here it is: the all new, highly improved, and much more "green" JoeLevi.com v2.0! Now, if by "green" you were thinking…
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You will be missed, Payne
Golf-great Payne Sewart is dead in a tragic plane crash. You will be missed, Payne.
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Hudsucker Proxy
Following the precedent set in the Hudsucker Proxy, today I applied for the CEO/President position that has become open at Iomega Corporation.
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It Must Have Been the Guns
Paul Harvey read this on his radio show: For the life of me, I can’t understand what could have gone wrong in Littleton, Colorado. If only the parents had kept their children…
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Liar, Liar
It has been one year ago today that President Clinton admitted to the nation that he had an “inappropriate” and “wrong” relationship with Monica Lewinsky. This admission came…
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SETI@home
We have now completed over 130 data units for the SETI@Home Project.
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Tornado rips through Downtown SLC
I was not in the office when it hit, but it came within two blocks... We are being evacuated now.
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Joe Levi: Award Winning Web Developer
“The Association of Support Professionals has named Iomega® one of the winners of the 1999 Ten Best Web Support Sites. A panel of judges evaluated the sites in terms of…
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SETI@home Project
We have now completed over 92 data units for the SETI@Home Project.
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Congressional Honorary Doctorate?
Apparently Senator Orrin Hatch, Representative Jim Hansen, and Governor Mike Leavitt have all decided that my life experiences warrant the title of “doctor” be presented to none…
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July 26, 1999
LeviZ.com was presented with the “Spyder’s Empire Cool Site” award. LeviZ.com is helping in the seach for extraterrestrial intelligence ( SETI@home )! Today we completed our 85th…
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Link to the Past Award
LeviZ.com was presented with the “Link to the Past” award.
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Welcome: Michael Joseph Levi
Baby News: Officially due: 26 June 1999 Birthday: 26 June 1999, 6:05am MT Gender: male Name: Michael Joseph Levi Weight: 8 pounds 1 ounce Length: 21 inches Fingers: 10 Toes: 10…
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Goodbye Doctor McCoy
DeForest Kelly, Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy from the original Star Trek TV series, died at age 79. He’s a doctor, Jim, not an immortal.
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New Job
I started my new job at BLAIN/OLSEN/WHITE/GURR Advertising in Salt Lake City, Utah as Technology Director, Interactive. Sadly, I am no longer employed with Iomega Corporation. I…