Lent started a few days ago and I decided I would give up alcohol. I did it a few years ago and it wasn’t too bad. The most amusing reactions come from friends that are used to ordering a round when we go out to eat, but now I have to remind them I’m sitting out. One of them half jokingly said next time I need to consult them before making a major decision like that. There a few events during lent that would normally be a party, but will be low key this year; trips to Atlanta, Vancouver, and Orlando, plus St. Patrick’s Day.

During Lent we’ll probably have a lot of Fish and Chip Friday lunches so I’ll be ranking them as we try out different restaurants. Sine on Pentagon City Row was first so its obviously in the lead. Their plate had 2 large pieces of fish, fries, and coleslaw, all of which was pretty good. I’ll write more once we try out some more places so I have something to compare it to.

Luke got his groove back today. I got mine back about 2 months ago. I’ll just say life is better this way.

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Happy Mardi Gras.

Today is Super Tuesday, a day in which a lot of states have their political Primaries and a lot of candidates realize if they have an actual chance at becoming the President.

Today many in New York are still attempting to recover from the Giants’ SuperBowl victory and tomorrow many in New Orleans will be recovering from Mardi Gras celebrations. Tomorrow is also Ash Wednesday, or the beginning of Lent. Will you be participating by giving anything up?

TechCrunch also has an interesting article on why YahooSoft or Microhoo may not be all bad.

The SuperBowl is today. Will the Patriots make history or will the Giants pull off an upset for the history books. People are talking about the Patriots being the greatest team of all time and Tom Brady being the best quarterback ever. Maybe they are right, but we’ll never know. One thing we do know is both Tom and the Patriots need to be mentioned when the conversation of the greatest comes up.

Last night I went to Mark and Rachel’s for Rachel’s birthday party. We also watched the UFC fight. It was fun and the fights were pretty interesting because someone that was seemingly getting his but kicked would reverse a move and have to other guy tap out in a matter of seconds.

That’s all for now. Its about an hour to kickoff so its time to start the party.

I’ve been gone for a while, but I have a new philosophy on posting. My plan now is to post more often, but make them a lot shorter, occasionally adding one of my typical multi-paragraph posts. That’s almost it for now, but I also want to comment on Microsoft’s unsolicited bid for Yahoo. Why? I don’t see much advantage in combining two companies that are losing to Google. Microsoft needs to continue its path of smaller acquisitions that pick at Google one piece at a time while Yahoo would be better in the hands of a company that doesn’t currently have a significant online presence; think IBM or AT&T.

By the way, just so everyone knows, I haven’t stopped writing during my break, I just haven’t posted. I have over a dozen drafts that haven’t found there way to the website, but may slowly appear post dated.

Thanks to everyone that sent Holiday Wishes; John Bencomo, Daniele vanOssenbruggen, Amonde Younger, Nicole Fallacara, Bert Mullins, Justin Arras, Quentin Ward, Grace Willis, Wes Hollan, Jomo Thompson, Grant Finter, Chris Crabtree, Casey Cook, Lisa Burton, Josh Jones, Will Robinson, Marcel Hammond, Nathan Burris, Kim De la Puente, Brooke Davis, Clifton Matteus, and Mark Coleman.

Merry Christmas everyone.

Thanks to everyone that sent Thanksgiving wishes. In order; Cory Boyd, Bert Mullins, Nathan Burris, Chad Baker, John Bencomo, Jeff Davis, Grace Willis, Mike Hales, Mark Rawlings, James Phillips, Kim De la Puente, Nikia Hovey, Susannah Odle, Sarah Rowe, Bennie Cunningham, and Lauren Elza.

… coming soon.

… a little misleading.

A few more points on Windows Mobile 6:

• The phone unlock function is more secure. Previously if you had a 4 character password the phone would let you know if you got the password right or wrong after you entered the 4th character. Now you have to hit the unlock button after you enter the password so the phone does not give away the length of the password.
• The new text message icon is different than the new email icon.