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Ash Wednesday
Today is Ash Wednesday. What a day it was. Started off with a dentist, ended up with me walking through slush in the driving wet snow. Not exactly the funnest of days. But I guess appropriate for the beginning of Lent. I’ve decided that this Lent, I will work on resolving a nagging deep personal…
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Catholic Writing Reprint: Learning to Love God
Author’s note: This short story is reprinted from the Fall 2010 edition of The Alexandrian. It concerns about an epiphany I’ve personally experienced and that has deepened my faith. The original publication can be found here: http://thealexandrian.org/journal/learning-to-love-god Learning to Love God Dorian Pula I decided to take a short break from cleaning in the kitchen. I dried…
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Negotiations – Rejected Sci-Fi Short Story
Author’s note: This short story was submitted to the 365 Tomorrows site. But was rejected due to the content not meeting the editor’s requirements. This was a particularly challenging piece, as I had a severe word limit on the submission. This is the final product of hours of painstaking editing. Enjoy. Negotiations A Science Fiction…
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No Need to Complain
This post is dedicated to my good friend Rudy. As I drove back from work on Monday with Rudy, I drove poor Rudy crazy with my complaints about work. Sure there are less than ideal situations that I have to deal with everyday. But I’m sure that everyone else who works, also comes up against…
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There is Writing… And There is Writing
I enjoy writing, I really do. If I did not I would not spend my time blogging and writing novels. Heck I even like writing documentation in my code at work. The written word is nothing I fear nor loathe. However there is some writing I could do without. Or rather, prefer not to do.…
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MeeGo Nowhere
My previous blog post about MeeGo was completely off-base. So it looks like Nokia decided to go with Windows Phone 7. Personally I don’t see the point, but then again I don’t run a Fortune 500 firm either. Apparently there are still plans for a MeeGo powered handset/mobile computer. Sometime in May, maybe? However it…
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Odds and Ends and Everything in Between
When one ought to go sleep, but instead insists on staying up to finish one more thing… than one is an workaholic. But who am I kidding here? My excuse is really that I’ve realized that this week is a crucial crunch week. And that once things are done, I can take things a bit…
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justCheckers for Android is On the Move
I’m pleased to announce that I have gotten back to developing justCheckers. I missed coding on my own projects. And I am glad that I motivated myself to get back on it. This time around I went the Android route, since the Android framework makes development of multimedia, threaded applications really easy in Java. And…
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Nokia and Qt, I Choose You!
Since I commented on this post about MeeGo here, I really should explain. I went to a Wavefront/Nokia seminar about Nokia’s Qt and Ovi store on Friday. Partially out of curiosity, partially to network and partially to perhaps win a brand new spanking N8. Not that I want to hand in my N900, but I…