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At long last, Ken Griffey Jr is a member of an elite club in Major League Baseball history. During the Reds’ 6-0 victory over the St Louis Cardinals today, Griffey hit his 500th career home run. It came in the sixth inning, off a 2-2 pitch from Matt Morris. Congratulations, Junior!

If you are reading this message, then you are viewing my website on its new webhost. Hopefully there will be better performance here at www.pair.com. If you experience any problems leaving comments, notice things that are missing, such as pictures, or find any broken links, let me know so I can fix them. [...]

As some of you may have noticed, my website can be really slow or even unreachable at times. I’m really not happy about this, or my webhost in general, so I’m going to be switching to a different hosting company. I’m hoping to do this seemlessly with no downtime, but just in case [...]

Check out this article I ran across:
Intel’s Tablet PC Centrino Surfboard

Seems Intel has gone and taken the joke of the internet and made it reality! What’s next? We can only wonder…

Someone with waaayyy too much time on their hands has taken parts of the Lord of the Rings trilogy scripts and altered it to read like a Monty Python movie. I’ve read bits and pieces of them, and it’s pretty funny, so I thought I’d pass it on. If you run across something [...]

…Robin! Yes, that’s right, this tiny little personal site of mine has had 100 comments now. Thanks everyone for your comments and interest in my site. I’m glad to see that there’s at least some discussion on the things I’ve posted, and hope to see a lot more in the future. [...]

Some of you may have heard about the new email service that Google will be rolling out soon. It offers 1GB of storage, enough room to keep emails for many, many years to come. In order to allow this type of storage, Google is doing something that has many people complaining and privacy [...]

Today is Flag Day, the anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. It’s a day for displaying the flag, remembering it’s history, and patriotic celebration. You can read more about it’s history here.
Fittingly, the Supreme Court today dismissed the case brought by a California man who wanted “Under God” removed from the Pledge [...]

There is an article in the recent edition of the journal Science reporting that dogs can understand human language.

Excerpts from the article:
“(Rico) lives as a pet with his owners and was reported by them to know the labels of more than 200 items, mostly children’s toys and balls, which he correctly retrieved upon request,” Julia [...]

I was outside working this afternoon when the FedEx guy pulled up. I thought he was going to my neighbor’s house at first, but he came up to me with a small, square package from Family Christian Store. I wasn’t really expecting a package until later next weekend so I ripped it open [...]