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1. Celebrating our anniversary

   JoDee and I are celebrating 14 years of being married together. In some ways it feels like yesterday that we were exchanging our vows, eating delicious cake, and trying to shoo everyone out so we could go on our honeymoon. :)

   I mention the cake because the cake we had was …

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2. Slides from my Introduction to Debugging with Python talk

   I've published the slides to my Introduction to Debugging with Python talk that I presented at Penguicon 2017. I'm hoping to present this at some upcoming conferences but for now you can take a peek at what I have.

   There is also a video of the presentation that I did …

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3. Regrets

   I try not to dwell on certain decisions that later turn out to be bad moves, but one that keeps popping up is my insistence on putting a hard disk drive on my Atari 800XL computer.

   Let me explain.

   Putting a hard disk drive (HDD) on my Atari 800XL was …

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4. Why companies want a convoluted tax system

   I can see why companies in the "tax preparation" service are reluctant to just let the government figure things out:

   • Fee for the software (because navigating the tax code is for chumps).
   • Fee for the state versions (because just filing federal is for chumps)
   • Fee for e-filing the state version …

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