Fly By Night: While Rush was a solid debut album with many of the hallmarks that would define the band, their second album, Fly By Night, put them right on the map as a serious band with incredible musicianship. “Anthem” kicks the band into overdrive, and is the song I most look forward to when [...]

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Happy Birthday, Elizabeth! Hope you have a great birthday!

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Back in March, I stated I was going to start a listening retrospective of all of the albums of Rush. I said I’d listen to each album and review each album in turn. My grandiose plan was to review each track of each album. Unfortunately, I didn’t realize how much stinking effort it is to [...]

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Coding Horror: When In Doubt, Make It Public This article codifies much of my thoughts on the phenominal success of things like Linux, Free and Open Source Software, and all of the open standards out there. Giving people the ability to collaborate with you in an open way is one of the most remarkable things [...]

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Because too many of my days have been made less sunny by proponents of the hideously  outdated and inflexible Waterfall model (and it’s little cousin: Big Design Up Front), I thought I’d share some links I found while searching for the phrase “Waterfall Sucks”: Coding Horror: Anything But Waterfall Educational flaws: Programming with the Waterfall [...]

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The winner of Caption Contest #3, with 11 captions for the puppy, is JoDee. However, I’m declaring two winners on this one, since JoDee’s comments were more plea’s for me to buy her a puppy than actual funny captions, so with 9 captions, our runner-up is Steve. Your prize(s) will be forthcoming.

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There are no wounds that cannot be healed by the music of Blues Traveler. It’s a physical impossibility.

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Caption Contest time again! This time I’m trying something a little different. Comment on this thread with as many captions as you can possibly come up with. The person with the most funny captions, wins. Comments will be closed on Monday night, so get ‘em in quick. (Extremely cute photo filched from LifeHacker).

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Mindless Pap! » Attention Book Stores !!!! This means you Barnes and Nobles ! I have to completely agree. When every piece of dreck that Sylvia Browne publishes is available on beck and call, but I have to look high and low for “that book by that wheelchair guy”, there’s a huge problem with our [...]

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ruthie: “Just a little more squinching and I’ll totally rock the klingon look!” Congratulations, Ruth! Your totally non-important prize is on it’s way!

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