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Verizon Motorola Droid... in my hands!
- Saturday, November 07 2009 @ 12:55 AM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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I'm sure that other sites will do a better job of reviewing the Droid in-depth, so I will just give some impressions and post a few pictures.
Here are the first pics (note: Jabba is not to scale):
The Droid sitting next to my semi-ancient work-provided BlackBerry:
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What NOT to do in your server room
- Thursday, November 05 2009 @ 04:14 AM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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Leave unused cables in-place. Do not use cable management. Label no cables.
Use cables of inappropriate length (this is a SCSI cable!):
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Amazon.com Advanced Book Search cannot "NOT" anymore
- Monday, November 02 2009 @ 11:44 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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It all started with me wanting to find "Science Fiction books published last month that were not about vampires."
According to the Amazon Advanced Search page, the minus sign "-" is supposed to indicate a "NOT" search. I started by searching the books section for "-vampires". Amazon says:
Your search "-vampires" did not match any products in: Books
Now I know that vampire books are popular these days, but I'm fairly certain there are at least a few Fantasy/SciFi books at Amazon.com that are not about vampires.
I tried again using the Advanced Search book search page (http://www.amazon.com/b/?node=241582011), making sure that "-vampires" was in the keywords field. Again, no matching results.
I tried the "books written by Malcolm X but not an autobiography" search listed on the Advanced Search page as a Real-world Example... again no matching results. Clicking the link to "See the results" of the example Malcom X search finds no matching results.
I looked all over the Amazon.com site for a way to report a web site problem. None of the information at http://www.amazon.com/help was useful to report this kind of issue, at least as far as I could tell. I was unable to locate any email contacts or web forms to submit feedback on the site itself. I googled for other reports of this issue and didn't find anything.
I resorted to emailing the generic webmaster address.
Here is the reply I received from Amazon:
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My Reading Place
- Sunday, November 01 2009 @ 11:26 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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El Yucateco chipotle hot sauce is smokin
- Sunday, November 01 2009 @ 10:54 PM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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I mixed some of this hot sauce with regular bottled barbecue sauce. I just finished grilling (and eating!) chicken breasts and turkey kielbasa. Man, this made for some good and spicy grilling.

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Alachua County Friends of the Library Book Sale rocks!
- Saturday, October 31 2009 @ 01:29 AM UTC
- Contributed by: Dan Stoner
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I am lucky to work a few blocks away from the Main Branch of the Florida Alachua County Library here in Gainesville. I am perhaps even more lucky to work right down the street from the Friends of the Library Book Sale. The book sale is held twice a year and the fall sale just finished. I managed to limit myself to buying only 10 books during the 3 days that I walked up the street to the sale from my office... and spent under $10 total. The sale runs from Saturday - Wednesday and the weekdays are not nearly as crowded.
I am quite happy with my finds at the sale:
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