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Starbucks released a list of stores closing in July 2008, part of their announced plans to close 600 company-owned stores.
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What Bush Appreciates About Filipino-Americans

Bush met with the President of the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo, on Tuesday. Hear what he had to say about his appreciation for the people of her country:

PRESIDENT BUSH: Madam President, it is a pleasure to welcome you back to the Oval Office. We have just had a [...]

Ok. I admit it. I am a micro-manager.
In everything I do or is related to my duties, I feel safer and more at ease when I have a hand in the process. I feel calm when I know that my finger is on the pulse on everything that is happening around me. I do not [...]

So it looks like Adobe has finally put it’s newly acquired stepchild Freehand (acquired from Macromedia) to sleep.
After a long and storied career, Adobe (neé Altsys, Aldus, and Macromedia) FreeHand has reached the end of its development road. The application has not been revised since Macromedia released MX nearly four years ago, after which the [...]

I was going to write about how stoked I was that I was learning about PHP, but then I got horrible news.
John is gone.
I miss you, John. And I will continue missing you. You were really the only person in Miami that I still kept in touch with. We were both odd people to have [...]

They call Las Vegas Sin City. That was very true in the 60s, 70s, and through the 90’s. Today, it has become the Adult Magic Kingdom, with each hotel a theme park by itself.  The sins you see are of Greed, Gluttony,  Envy, Lust, Sloth, and Pride. The only one I leave out is [...]

I think I have to explain the last post a bit… I got quite a few e-mails expressing condolences and such.
The poem was one I shared at a recent poetry reading held in the Downtown Atlanta-Fulton Public Library. I originally wrote it for Father’s Day, but felt that it was too personal at the time [...]

So I had a bigger scare today. I woke up to my face still being as numb as it was last night. I decided to buy some Claritin on the way to work and thought it was helping when I finally got some feeling in my teeth.
Two hours into work, I started feeling a headache, [...]

I haven’t been blogging as much as I would like to. I would like to share the story of the genteel old lady on the bus who laid her hands on a guy in an electric wheelchair, and did a prayer. Or the guy who I always see on the train who plays his bad [...]

Being that it was Spring break, and that I had no pressing issues or projects coming up (except maybe for my life), I decided to give in and send in my laptop for much-needed repairs. So, coupling that with a recent data outage with T-Mobile, which rendered the data services on my Sidekick virtually accessible, [...]