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 <title>Fat Tuesday Parade 2006</title>
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 <description>Sweetie got a new camera for her birthday (a really cool Nikon L1 digital camera.  A tiny cute thing with 5 times optical zoom and 6.2 megapixel resolution).

One of her first outings with it was at the Ajijic annual Fat Tuesday parade, - our ve...</description>
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 <title>The Mexico They Never Left</title>
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 <description>From Delta Sky Magazine...
 
http://www.delta-sky.com/2006_02/Evidence/index.html

 If the cherished ideals of human unity and harmony between cultures remain hard to achieve, maybe we would best look to a basic biological concept for a soluti...</description>
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 <title>Mata Ortiz Show in Ajijic</title>
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 <description>

Some of the artists from Mata Ortiz came to visit Ajijic for a show and demonstation of their craft.

Marianne Carlsen of Maestros del Arte arranged the show and many people passed through the two day event which was held at the Nueva Posada...</description>
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 <title>Midlife Mavericks: Women of Power in Ajijic</title>
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 <description>CBS filmed a couple of pieces recently on the &quot;Midlife Mavericks&quot; in Ajijic - women of power who have settled here.  

You can view the short videos here.
http://www.cbs2.com/video/?id=14251@kcbs.dayport.com

http://www.cbs2.com/video/?id=143...</description>
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 <title>Where is Ajijic Anyways??</title>
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 <description>


We are often asked &quot;Where is Ajijic anyways&quot;?
I&#039;ve used Mapquest to locate the town.
Here are some links that will show you.

Where it is in relation to Guadalajara

Where it is on Lake Chapala

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 <title>A Great Article About Ajijic</title>
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 <description>  From Delta Sky Magazine...
Article by Roger Toll

  If the cherished ideals of human unity and harmony between cultures remain hard to achieve, maybe we’d best look to a basic biological concept for a solution.  Symbiosis, the dictionary says...</description>
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 <title>Some Amazing Photos of Mexico City</title>
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You won&#039;t see many photos like this of Mexico City!!



The photographer is a helicopter pilot who has collected some amazing perspectives of the largest city in the world.  You can view it as a set 
of photos or as a slideshow.

http://h...</description>
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 <title>Get our site updates by email</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=238</link>
 <description>I&#039;ve been able to set up a service to provide a feed of changes and updates to this website by email using a cool new service called FeedBlitz ....

Enter your Email

 Powered by FeedBlitz
If you enter your email address you will receive a da...</description>
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 <title>Getting Skyped</title>
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Skype has rapidly become one of the most popular applications in the internet.  And why not??  Free pc to pc telephony is a good thing.

Activating Skype is quite simple - as simple as MSN Messenger.

Requirements: 
1) A computer with audio...</description>
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 <title> A FLICKR Tutorial</title>
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Many of us are now using online photo galleries these days instead of mailing huge digital photo files around the net.  This is a much more efficient way to distribute photos to those who care without choking their systems.  They can download on...</description>
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 <title>And then there&#039;s the US States version</title>
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 <description>All the states that we&#039;ve travelled.....

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 <title>Where we&#039;ve travelled</title>
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 <description>We&#039;ve had the opportunity to do a lot of travelling over the years.

A cool tool I found on the web lets us map out where we&#039;ve been.

Check it out.... 47 countries visited so far



Lots of places still left to fill in...

You can find ...</description>
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 <title>Maestros del Arte Feria</title>
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Every year our good friend  assembles together a group of indigenous Mexican artists who practice traditional arts and crafts for a grand sale in Ajijic.  She was originally inspired by the book &quot;Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art&quot; which you ...</description>
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 <title>Patzcuaro Night of the Dead Photos</title>
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We went to Patzcuaro for the Night of the Dead festivities again this year.  This was our third visit to Patzcuaro during this most wondrous of Mexican festivals.  I won&#039;t go into explaining what the holiday is all about.  If you want to know mo...</description>
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 <title>Online TV Shows</title>
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 <description>
A list of sites that track torrents for various tv shows.
www.xtvi.com/
www.tvtorrents.com
www.fulldls.com
www.tvtorrents.com
www.bttv.com
www.myspleen.net

The sites below provide lists of torrent files that include various types of dow...</description>
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 <title>Getting ready to go home</title>
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We&#039;re in Toronto finishing up a one month visit with family for the holidays and to join in the celebration of Annie Banannie&#039;s wedding.  We had a most wonderful time.

It&#039;s been a terribly busy time and we are tired and ready to go back home ...</description>
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 <title>A Limerick</title>
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 <description>
There was a young couple from Toronto
Who came to meet Joel and Sue who said &quot;Buy Pronto!&quot;

The casa on Independencia seemed wonderful,
Even before Tomas helped make it colorful.

Now they&#039;re going for a while
To return with stuff in a pi...</description>
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 <title>George Carlin on Stuff</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=232</link>
 <description>
Actually this is just a place for my stuff, ya know? That&#039;s all, a little place for my stuff. That&#039;s all I want, that&#039;s all you need in life, is a little place for your stuff, ya know? I can see it on your table, everybody&#039;s got a little place f...</description>
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 <title>The Origins of Cyberjack</title>
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 <title>Sweetie&#039;s Birthday 2005</title>
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 <description>Sweetie had her birthday on February 21st.

What she wanted most of all was to go to the beach for her birthday.
So we chatted up our good friends Connie and Ted and Kay and Kirby to join us for a four day holiday at the beach.
We drove to Man...</description>
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 <title>New Years 2004/2005</title>
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New Years Eve was our first opportunity to host a party for most of the wonderful people we have met.
We invited all of our friends in Ajijic and most of them were able to come.  A couple of them were out with the virus that&#039;s been floating aro...</description>
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 <title>Christmas 2004</title>
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It&#039;s been the most wonderful Christmas season here in Ajijic.

Friends, parties, fiestas, perfect weather - all have combined to make this one of our most memorable holiday seasons ever.  Not to mention great food and drink.  And did I ment...</description>
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 <title>It&#039;s Finally Time to Dump Internet Explorer</title>
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 <description> Too many security issues....  Now there&#039;s a great alternative.... Firefox which shipped last week.
 
Read this article in the Washington Post.  There&#039;s lots more press around about this on Google and elsewhere if you&#039;d like to read more about i...</description>
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 <title>Mike&#039;s 60th Birthday</title>
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 <description>We travelled to Elgin Ontario this past weekend to join Mike and Sandra for Mike&#039;s 60th birthday party. They live on a gorgeous property on the Rideau Canal just north of Kingston Ontario where they hosted us in regal style. Their house is right o...</description>
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 <title>Welcome Sydney Eden</title>
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 <description>Elaine and Neville managed to produce the most beautiful baby ever.  

You can click on the photo for some more photos but you&#039;ll need a password from Nev first.</description>
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 <title>New website launched</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=197</link>
 <description>I&#039;ve launched a new website - www.jackandsusan.com.

There&#039;s nothing there for now except a listing for a rental house in Ajijic (Chapala) Jalisco Mexico.
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 <title>We Bought a Travel Trailer</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=199</link>
 <description>We bought a 1971 Traveliner travel trailer which we intend to drive down to Mexico with a bunch of our stuff. 

We&#039;ve always loved camping.  cj&#039;s Sisty introduced us to it many years ago.  Our camping experiences culminated with a two month camp...</description>
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 <title>Ajijic Blues</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=200</link>
 <description>Every couple of weeks Ren Ellis and the boys get together for a night of blues jamming at Bruno&#039;s Hideaway, AKA Vicky&#039;s Place, out on the Ajijic-Joco Carretrera.  A night of dinner and blues with Ren Ellis and his backup band makes for a very enjo...</description>
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 <title>Google Hacking</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=212</link>
 <description>Fun with Google Searches

METHOD 1

put this string in google search:

parent directory /appz/ -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums

parent directory DVDRip -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums

parent direc...</description>
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 <title>www.canada411.com</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=205</link>
 <description>Time to put away that heavy telephone book.This is the best search site we&#039;ve found for locating people or businesses in Canada.  I believe that this is a database of the actual telephone book listings but I&#039;m not certain of this.  I am sure, howe...</description>
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 <title>Getting Ready to Leave</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=184</link>
 <description>Time passes so quickly - hard to believe we&#039;ve been here in Ajijic almost two months!!  We&#039;re already quite depressed about going back to Canada next Thursday.  

The weather here gets more perfect every day.  The flowers in the garden are sprou...</description>
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 <title>Purim in Ajijic</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=201</link>
 <description>The Lake Chapala Jewish Congregation sponsored a Purim Party for the community which was held at the congregation&#039;s facility in La Floresta.  Many attended and enjoyed the Purim treats.  It was very strange to find ourselves participating in a fun...</description>
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 <title>Fat Tuesday Parade</title>
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 <description>The day before Ash Wednesday is a time for a Carnival style parade in the streets of Ajijic.  Marchers wear costumes and throw flour and water at the bystanders who line the streets.We found a great spot on the street to watch the parade.  Afterwa...</description>
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 <title>Sweetie&#039;s Birthday!!</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=183</link>
 <description>So today is Sweetie&#039;s birthday and although we&#039;re here in Ajijic, our personal paradise, Sweetie is sick today.

She woke up about 1 AM last night and started throwing up.  This has continued throughout the day and I am just now going to call ou...</description>
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 <title>Getting ready for Mexico</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=182</link>
 <description>Yes, the time approaches quickly.

We are leaving for Mexico again next week (Friday the 31st) and have already packed.  I guess we&#039;re anxious.

I&#039;m so excited I had to write this note even though I have nothing to say.
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 <title>Updating site activities</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=180</link>
 <description>I&#039;ve made some significant changes to the homepage lately, - a total re-design - you can take a look at it here.

A couple of other new areas include some short videos I shot recently with my little Olympus D-490 digital camera using the &#039;movie ...</description>
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 <title>Another trip to Mexico</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=181</link>
 <description>We traveled to Mexico for a month this time.  We love the country and its people so much, - the culture, the scenery, and so on...

We went first to Ajijic where we visited with friends.  We spent three weeks there and met many new warm and wond...</description>
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 <title>Bella, Didja Eat Yet??</title>
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 <description>Our friends Diane and Shoshana came to visit from New York and we took them, together with Sisty and Breeder2, out for Sunday brunch at the Free Times Cafe on College Street where we enjoyed a Klezmer/Jazz show.  A splendid time was had by all.  I...</description>
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 <title>SARstock - What an Event!!</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=172</link>
 <description>

31 July 2003 

They came from Everywhere.  Yes, we were there at the largest Rolling Stones concert ever.  Nobody was born and nobody was killed.  A haze of colitas filled the air and soothed the crowd as 490,000 rockers of all ages joined t...</description>
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 <title>Fabulous Steven Spielberg Site</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=171</link>
 <description>Steven Spielberg has established this website to archive old films whichrecord and reflect Jewish life in Europe and America before, during andafter World War II.

This is a wonderful site that is well worth some time to visit but don&#039;t go
ther...</description>
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 <title>Laws of the Universe</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=170</link>
 <description>You get what you pay for. 

Whatever gets you through the night is all right - John Lennon

Your right to swing your fist stops where my face begins. 

The point of living is to get better - Moses Znaimer

Life is uncertain - eat dessert f...</description>
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 <title>Of course, the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful - so what?</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=169</link>
 <description>by Dennis Prager - Originally Published Online: November 5, 2002 - 1:00 a.m. Eastern 
© 2002 Creators Syndicate, Inc. 
 
Whenever the question of Islam and violence - specifically terror - is raised, we are repeatedly told that &quot;the vast majori...</description>
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 <title>Donald Rumsfeld&#039;s Poetry</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=163</link>
 <description>Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is an accomplished man. Not only is he guiding the war in Iraq, he has been a pilot, a congressman, an ambassador, a businessman, and a civil servant. But few Americans know that he is also a poet. 

Hart See...</description>
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 <title>Marianne&#039;s Gallery - Avant Gourd</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=161</link>
 <description>Our friend Marianne who writes the &#039;Ajijic Chronicles&#039; See our &#039;ajijic&#039; category on the right menu) operates a gallery in Ajijic, Mexico (one of our favourite places) where she sells her artwork, - sculptured and painted gourd art.

Much of it i...</description>
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 <title>Peace for Our Time - by Alistair Cooke</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=159</link>
 <description>Excerpted from a BBC program broadcast February 3, 2003 by Alistair Cooke on his &#039;Letter from America&#039; program whose homepage can be found at: http://www.wbur.org/inside/personality/detail6870.asp  

The first part of the program has been delete...</description>
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 <title>For My Sweetie Love</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=160</link>
 <description>cyberjack has been building websites declaring his love for his sweetie for several years now and we&#039;ve collected some of them here.</description>
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 <title>www.kosher4passover.com</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=150</link>
 <description>With Passover around the corner we often want to look up some holiday related information to help us make for a nicer more festive time.  This site is a great collection of Passover resources including all the rules, lots of recipes, classic humou...</description>
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 <title>The Bunny and the Snake</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=146</link>
 <description>Once upon a time (allegedly) in a nice little forest, there lived an orphaned bunny and an orphaned snake.  By a surprising coincidence, both were blind from birth.

One day, the bunny was hopping through the forest, and the snake was slithering...</description>
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 <title>France Demands Return of the Statue of Liberty</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=147</link>
 <description>By Brian Briggs 

 

 Paris - France has invoked a long forgotten clause to demand that the Statue of Liberty be returned.



The people of France sent Lady Liberty as a gift to the people of the United States in 1886, but the recent row b...</description>
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 <title>The Latest Hit/Bomb/Kill Osama Game</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=123</link>
 <description>Another game to work out your aggressions...

http://www.confound.com/games/squoosh_terrorist.php

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 <title>My Webcam</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=8</link>
 <description>Just testing my webcam.

Right now it&#039;s doing picture uploads but I&#039;m trying to get it to stream.


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 <title>Canadian Provincial Maps</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=162</link>
 <description>Some provincial governments have put their official maps online, some as JPEG or GIF images, others as PDF files. Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec have broken down their maps into PDF pieces that will fit on a page; Saskatchewan and British Columbia p...</description>
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 <title>The Internet Soapbox</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=120</link>
 <description>A clear political statement regarding chain letters.

http://www.smilepop.com/index.cfm?action=viewcard&amp;content_id=8407&amp;page_id=8407</description>
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 <title>Sweetie&#039;s Birthday</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=124</link>
 <description>  Sweetie&#039;s 55th Birthday came and we decided that we wouldn&#039;t just sit around  but would do something about it.So we went to Collingwood just to get out of Toronto for a couple of days.  Sweetie has been under too much stress lately with her moth...</description>
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 <title>Creating a New Holiday</title>
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 <description>Every 14th of February you get the chance to display your fondness for your wife or girlfriend by showering her with gifts, flowers, dinner, shows and any other baubles that women find romantic.
 
Secret...guys feel left out.  That&#039;s right...lef...</description>
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 <title>Web Content Publisher</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=143</link>
 <description>This site is built using nucleus, an opensource content management system.

I recommend it highly for building database driven websites but be aware that it requires some moderate technical skill to install and configure.



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 <title>A View of Israel from Space</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=149</link>
 <description>In memory of Ilan Ramon, Israel&#039;s first astronaut.

A very interesting perspective of  as shot by the crew of Columbia during it&#039;s final ill-fated flight.

You can read more about US-Israel co-operation in space here at the Jewish Virtual Libr...</description>
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 <title>How the Canadian Tax System Works</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=118</link>
 <description>This takes a little concentration but is worth it...
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Suppose that every day, ten men go out for dinner. The bill for all ten comes to $100. 

If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go...</description>
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 <title>Taking Some Time Off</title>
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 <description>Dear Friends and Family,

This may come as a shock to many of you but I have made the monumental decision to take a year off.

There are a number of reasons, but the major contributor to my decision has been my involvement with a guerrilla gro...</description>
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 <title>Religious Merger Creates 900 Million Hinjews</title>
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 <description>Attainment of Nirvana Still Goal, But Not So Important
That You Should Miss Cousin Vijay&#039;s Bar Mitzvah

New Delhi, India

Hinjew leaders today conceded the merger of Hinduism and Judaism has not worked out as planned, as instead of forming a ...</description>
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 <title>Jamaica 2002</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=30</link>
 <description>In December, 2002 we went to Jamaica for a two week stay in Negril at the west end of the island.

We stayed at Banana Shout, a nice small hotel on the rocks.  It is right next door to Rick&#039;s Cafe, a favourite  viewing spot at the west end.  And...</description>
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 <title>Family Tree</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=177</link>
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 <title>A Real Man&#039;s Chain Letter</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=116</link>
 <description>This chain letter was started in hopes of bringing relief to other tired and discouraged men. Unlike most chain letters, this one doesn&#039;t cost anything!

  Just send a copy of this letter to five of your friends who are equally tired and discont...</description>
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 <title>How Jews got their Names....</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=158</link>
 <description>Other than aristocrats and wealthy people Jews did not get surnames in Eastern Europe until the Napoleonic years of the early 19th century.  Most of the Jews from countries captured by Napoleon, Russia, Poland, and Germany were ordered to get surn...</description>
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 <title>French Army to Market &#039;Ultimate Surrender&#039;</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=126</link>
 <description>
Paris - Inspired by the commercial success of the United States Army&amp;#8217;s &quot;Boot Camp&quot; video game, the General Staff of the French Army has announced plans to market &quot;Ultimate Surrender,&quot; a video game based upon the proud military traditions o...</description>
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 <title>God Names Next &quot;Chosen People&quot;; It&#039;s Jews Again - &quot;Oh Shit&quot; Say Jews</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=114</link>
 <description>Jerusalem (SatireWire.com) Update - Jews, whose troubled, 10,000-year term as God&#039;s &quot;chosen people&quot; finally expired last night, woke up this morning to find that they had once again been hand-picked by the Almighty. Synagogues across the globe dec...</description>
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 <title>Do you have A. A. A. D. D.?</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=83</link>
 <description>Now this makes sense!!  Now I know what is going on! ! ! ! They have finally found a diagnosis for my condition. Hooray! ! I have recently been diagnosed with A. A. A. D. D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. .

This is how it goes:</description>
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 <title>Ajijic Chronicles - July 2002</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=82</link>
 <description>Life in Mexico continues to be wonderful but I miss hearing from many of you. I really enjoy hearing what you are up to and knowing you still remember you have a long-time friend south of the border.



 We had 3 months of intense heat (March,...</description>
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 <title>Having a Bad Day?</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=112</link>
 <description>Having a bad day? 
 
Fire authorities in California found a corpse in a burned out section of forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased male was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with scuba tanks on his back, flipp...</description>
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 <title>A Timeshare Question</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=81</link>
 <description>Hi guys,

We&#039;re in Isla Mujeres Mexico (near Cancun) for a week to celebrate my birthday and are being tempted by the timeshares down here.

Please talk us out of it.  What are your issues and problems?  Costs?

thanks

no time to write mo...</description>
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 <title>The beginning...</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=2</link>
 <description>He sat down at the keyboard.



It was his 55th birthday and he wanted to write something important. He wasn&#039;t sure what. He didn&#039;t really have a lot to say. 



He was pretty much content with how things were going in his life so far.

...</description>
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 <title>I&#039;ve Been Trying to Reach You Urgently</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=110</link>
 <description>FROM THE DESK OF: DR. DEHINDE DANIELS

Dear friend,

Greetings from my country, Nigeria. And by God&#039;s grace this is a warm embrace of a lifetime and mutually beneficial relationship between us, hence my writing you.

Dr. Dehinde Daniels is m...</description>
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 <title>The Buffalo Theory</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=108</link>
 <description>It makes sense to me!!

I have not seen anyone explain this as well as Cliff Clavin, on Cheers.

One afternoon at Cheers, Cliff was explaining the Buffalo Theory to his buddy Norm. Here&#039;s how it went:

Well ya see, Norm, it&#039;s like this... A ...</description>
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 <title>Urgent: Business Assistance Needed</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=109</link>
 <description>Urgent Business Assistance.

Mr.Tunde Bakare
No. 16 Kingsway road,
Ikoyi lagos
Nigeria.
Tel/Fax:: 234 1 7742913
e-mail:tubaka1@excite.com         

4th March, 2002.

Dear Friend,
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.

First, I mu...</description>
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 <title>The Oracle of Bacon</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=107</link>
 <description>The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia

All about Kevin Bacon and Six Degrees of Bacon and all that Bacon stuff.

http://oracleofbacon.org/

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 <title>Online Photo Resource Guide</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=148</link>
 <description>This fellow, Dave Dyer of Andromeda Software, has put together an excellent comparison of many of the photo sites on the web.  These sites provide various services including free (and paid) web space storage for photos and photo printing and scann...</description>
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 <title>Remembering Goa Freaks</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=80</link>
 <description>Hey Gretchen, long time no write.  But today you are top of mind.  I just finished reading &quot;Goa Freaks&quot;.  

Wow.  What a fast spiral down from happy hippie to degenerate druggie.  I&#039;m so lucky to have my hubby by my side and friends like you and...</description>
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 <title>Sweetie&#039;s Fan Club</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=174</link>
 <description>
This is one of the first websites I ever built for my Sweetie Love.  It is full of photos of Sweetie and pointers to many of her favorite things.

It was built in early 2002 using a great piece of software called Trellix which was acquired by ...</description>
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 <title>But what do you do all day??</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=134</link>
 <description>Lake Chapala is located a few miles southeast of Guadalajara, - Mexico&#039;s second largest city.  It is surrounded by many small Mexican towns.

Some are interesting to visit, - others aren&#039;t.

Some are good for shopping, - others aren&#039;t.

To t...</description>
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 <title>But What Do You do All Day??</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=179</link>
 <description>
Sweetie and I love to spend time in Mexico, - in particular in a small mountain village called Ajijic on Lake Chapala.  It is one of a number of small communities located along the north shore of Lake Chapala, Mexico&#039;s largest lake.



I bui...</description>
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 <title>Travels With Sweetie</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=175</link>
 <description>
I built this site to bring together photos and stories about the five years that Sweetie and I took to travel together.  There are sections here for all the countries that we visited.

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 <title>As the World Turns</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=79</link>
 <description>Smarmy but nice.

http://www.whoohoo.net/worldturns/

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 <title>Hola from Mexico</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=77</link>
 <description>Dear Amiga,

Aaaah, life is sweet when I´m away from Mommy dearest.  

cj and I have been living with our friend Marianne in her little Mexican style house (curved brick ceiling, walled garden, cows in the next yard) and are already quite chil...</description>
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 <title>Hola de Guadalajara</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=76</link>
 <description>Hola Amigos,

Sorry we didn&#039;t have a chance to contact you again before we left.  Everything got really busy at the end and family demands were heavy because Elaine got engaged (as you know).  It&#039;s taken a while to get it together to since we go...</description>
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 <title>Ajijic Chronicles - December 2001</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=75</link>
 <description>This is my Happy Holidays newsletter, wishing you all happiness and continued friendship throughout the coming year. Ajijic has been gearing up for holiday festivals for over a month now as my parents can attest. They left 1½ weeks ago after spend...</description>
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 <title>Elaine Got Engaged!!</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=78</link>
 <description>cj&#039;s niece Elaine got engaged today to a lovely guy named Neville so her Unkle built them a web site to celebrate their engagement and to keep a record of all of their events.

You can find it here.</description>
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 <title>Lainey and Neville</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=176</link>
 <description>



Lainey is my niece and when she announced that she was getting married I got so excited that I immediately built them a website to accumulate photos of their journey towards wedded bliss.

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 <title>Sweetie&#039;s Lumbar Laminectomy</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=74</link>
 <description>Hi bro,

Hope you&#039;re well and happy.

We have been in Toronto about a year and a half or so.  I&#039;ve been working in the high tech venture capital field and hating it.  We&#039;re thinking of maybe going south to Mexico for the winter.  Right now we&#039;...</description>
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 <title>Another Hoax</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=106</link>
 <description>Please send this to all the women you know!!!

WARNING !!!

If a man comes to your front door and says he is conducting a survey and he asks you to show him your boobs...

DO NOT SHOW HIM YOUR BOOBS!

This is a scam, and he is only trying ...</description>
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 <title>Ajijic Chronicles - October 2001</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=73</link>
 <description>We are living in crazy times my friends. Three of the most important events in my lifetime (to-date) have happened when I was out of the United States: (1) Watergate happened when I was in Greece, (2) The Embassy hostages were taken when I was in ...</description>
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 <title>A Five Year Update</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=235</link>
 <description>From: cyberjack  
Date: May 22 2000 - 9:31am 

Hi Sarah,

We never got your first email but we did get your second. How are you
doing? Sorry we haven&#039;t written sooner but our lives have been changing a
lot lately and we haven&#039;t had much tim...</description>
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 <title>Interview With God</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=72</link>
 <description>http://www.reata.org/interview2.html

A nice piece.  Thought provoking and not too sucky.

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 <title>Our Plans For Returning to Ajijic</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=71</link>
 <description>Dear Marianne,



It was SOOOO good speaking with you yesterday. Especially hearing your laugh. And we really appreciated what you said about more younger people moving down there -- the market is so bad and the stress level so high in the cit...</description>
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 <title>Flamingo Mania</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=70</link>
 <description>http://www.flamingomania.com/flam_1st.html

Flamingo Macarena
http://www.ospsitecrafters.com/macarena.html

For the flamingo maniacs like my Sisty.

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 <title>Ajijic Chronicles - July 2001</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=69</link>
 <description>I missed sending a Chronicles off in May so this one might be a bit longer. I do not know how, in the states, I managed a life where I worked ten hours a day, owned a home, took care of all my personal business and still had somewhat of a social l...</description>
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 <title>The Whiplash Kids Do It Again</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=68</link>
 <description>Hi guys,

We&#039;re back and ready to go. I(cj) was busy the past weekend participating in the celebration of Dad&#039;s 85th birthday. We&#039;re anxious to hear what&#039;s been happening in your world. Let&#039;s get together soon . What&#039;s good for you?

To save t...</description>
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 <title>The Difference Between Men and Women</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=105</link>
 <description>Let&#039;s say a guy named Fred is attracted to a woman named Martha. He asks her out to a movie; she accepts; they have a pretty good time. A few nights later he asks her out to dinner, again they enjoy themselves.  They continue to see each other reg...</description>
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 <title>alt-buddha-short-fat-guy-faq</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=5</link>
 <description>This is the Frequently Asked Questions list for alt.buddha.short.fat.guy. 
It is posted infrequently enough to be frustrating but often enough 
to be annoying. Relax. Have a cigar. 

A friend writes: 
&gt;Yes, you are correct, it is annoying and...</description>
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 <title>The Whiplash Kids Strike Again</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=67</link>
 <description>10-May-2001

We&#039;re writing you from Manali in North india.  We&#039;ve been here a week and both have diarrhea and bad back pains (from the flight) and we&#039;re still jetlagged and the place is swarming with Israelis so we&#039;re getting out while the getti...</description>
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 <title>Ajijic Chronicles - April 2001</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=66</link>
 <description>Had a few minutes this morning before I start running a few errands and begin another beautiful day in Ajijic. Once my errands are done, I will work on my gourds for a little while and later today, go swimming. Our weather has been unseasonably ho...</description>
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 <title>University Research Participants Needed</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=154</link>
 <description>
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 <title>Market Experts Say Now is Not the Time to Panic</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=104</link>
 <description>MARKET EXPERTS SAY NOW IS NO TIME TO PANIC;
TIME TO PANIC COMES NEXT TUESDAY

Market Simply Undergoing &quot;Healthy Correction&quot; Until Devastating Freefall 

Washington, D.C.  - Despite the sharp downturn in the stock market, economic and financia...</description>
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 <title>Help Save This Child</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=102</link>
 <description>
 
Please read this unless you don&#039;t have a heart!

Hello, my name is Harold Anslinger.  One month ago, my little boy, Tommy, was diagnosed with Simiatomia-B, a rare genetic disorder which affects the nuclei of cells.
 
Chromosomes are genet...</description>
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 <title>Virus Alert</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=103</link>
 <description>If you receive an email entitled &quot;Badtimes,&quot; delete it immediately. Do not open it. Apparently this one is pretty nasty.

It will not only erase everything on your hard drive, but it will also delete anything on disks within 20 feet of your comp...</description>
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 <title>Ajijic Chronicles - February 2001</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=65</link>
 <description>Hola mis amigos,

As time marches on, it becomes harder and harder to write the Chronicles - there is soooo much to tell. I&#039;ve been super busy since Christmas and am more than ready to have my life slow down to a pace more in keeping with Mexica...</description>
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 <title>Washington Post Article About Ajijic</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=64</link>
 <description>By Mary Jordan

Washington Post Foreign Service

Monday, February 5, 2001 ; Page A01

AJIJIC, Mexico -- Just past the Gringo Grill on the lone road into Ajijic stands a banner that reads, in English: &quot;Welcome to your new home.&quot;

About 7,50...</description>
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 <title>Sometimes</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=153</link>
 <description>
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 <title>The Naked News</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=101</link>
 <description>http://www.nakednews.com/newsite/new.html

For those who want the bare facts.

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 <title>Ajijic Chronicles - December 2000</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=63</link>
 <description>Now that Thanksgiving has passed and Christmas approaches, I am reflecting back on my first year in Ajijic. Yes, August 6 was the one-year anniversary of my arrival in Mexico.  I say it in all my newsletters, but the only thing I really miss from ...</description>
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 <title>Amish virus</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=100</link>
 <description>You have just received the Amish virus. Because we don&#039;t have any computers, or programming experience, this virus works on the honor system.  Please delete all the files from your hard drive and then manually forward this virus to everyone on you...</description>
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 <title>Ajijic Chronicles - October 2000</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=62</link>
 <description>Yep, it&#039;s that time again! Time for the Ajijic Chronicles. 



Volunteerism can be catching!



I have been sooooooooo busy. As I&#039;ve said before, I am current President of the Ajijic Society of the Arts. Now, I am also the Director of the ...</description>
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 <title>My Life as a Venture Capitalist</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=236</link>
 <description>My Profile at vcprofile.com....
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 <title>Ajijic Chronicles - August 2000</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=61</link>
 <description>Well it&#039;s time again to put my fingers on the keyboard and relate what goes on here South of the Border. Much has happened since I last wrote.</description>
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 <title>An Industry is Born</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=99</link>
 <description>Three beggars from Peoria arrived on Wall Street, seeking their fortune.

The first wrote &quot;Beggar&quot; on his tin cup. By the end of the day he received $100.

The second beggar wrote &quot;Beggar.com&quot; on his cup. By evening he received $500,000 and an...</description>
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 <title>Ajijic Chronicles - May 2000</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=60</link>
 <description>Hola mis amigas y amigos-



It&#039;s about time for the next edition of the Ajijic Chronicles - so here it is!</description>
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 <title>The Whiplash Kids Do It Again</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=59</link>
 <description>Dear Henk &amp; Barbara,

How are you guys? Sorry we haven&#039;t written sooner but our lives have been changing a lot lately and we haven&#039;t had much time to think about anything else.

We spent a lovely quiet winter in  which is a lovely small town i...</description>
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 <title>Another Urban Legend</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=98</link>
 <description>As this guy was on his way to the post office to pick
up his case of free M&amp;M&#039;s,(sent to him because he
forwarded their e-mail to five other people,
celebrating the fact that the year 2000 is &quot;MM&quot; in
Roman numerals), when he ran into a friend ...</description>
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 <title>Lazing About in Ajijic</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=58</link>
 <description>As I type, I am looking out at a scene worthy f &quot;Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous&quot; although our bouganvillea has faded for the winter. The Lakeside area, as it is called, is quite beautiful.



We&#039;re having a lovely time but, simply put, this...</description>
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 <title>Darwin Award Winner - 1999</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=97</link>
 <description>THE WAIT IS OVER, THE 1999 DARWIN&#039;S ARE IN!!!!

 The true high point of the e-mail year has arrived.  Yes, it is the 1999 Darwin Awards.  For those sheltered few of you who are not fully aware of the Darwin Awards; these awards are given annuall...</description>
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 <title>Letter from Ajijic</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=57</link>
 <description>Hola Charles,

I have sworn to write at least once a month -- the punishment for not doing so is way too severe. I still don&#039;t believe I wasn&#039;t at your wedding.</description>
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 <title>Happy New Year/Century/Millenium</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=54</link>
 <description>Hope you had a wonderful New Years and start to the year/century/MM.  Is everything/anything back to normal yet?  



We had been planning to go to San Miguel de Allende for the New Year to spend with a friend there but she emailed us that it ...</description>
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 <title>Letter from Lake Chapala</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=53</link>
 <description>Just realized how long it&#039;s been since we wrote. Somehow there always seems to be something to do besides writing.  



We have been enjoying ourselves here in Ajijic (pronounced ah-hee-HEEK) on Lake Chapala because it is a gorgeous place with...</description>
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 <title>Notes from the Maritimes</title>
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 <description>sweetie &amp; I are just back in Toronto following a two and a half month camping trip to Eastern Canada (the Maritimes).  We borrowed Sisty&#039;s pop-up tent trailer and headed east in mid-June.</description>
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 <title>Something to think about...</title>
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 <description>Shit is a powerful word. Just think of all the concepts and ideas you can communicate with it. Shit may just be the most powerful word in the English language.</description>
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 <title>Planning a Trip to Newfoundland</title>
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 <description>hi guys, it&#039;s the Whiplash Kids checking in with final plans.



Yesterday was our 13th wedding anniversary and for that event, I easily extracted a promise from cj not to get involved in any new business project.  In the morning, we took our ...</description>
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 <title>Bungee Jumping in India</title>
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 <title>Notes from Guatemala</title>
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 <description>We haven&#039;t had ready access to email lately so we haven&#039;t been writing but it&#039;s time for an update.  We&#039;re back in the land of cheap email so please feel free to write us very long letters to update us on what&#039;s doing with you.



We left Oaxa...</description>
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 <title>On Spellchecking</title>
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 <description>ON THE USELESSNESS OF AN EDITOR IN THE PRESENTS OF A SPELL CHEQUER
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 <title>Re: Can We Make Definite Plans Now?</title>
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 <description>Hi Di,

It&#039;s breakfast time in Antigua.  We have CNN giving today&#039;s installment of the impeachment proceedings and on NBC, Katie Couric is standing outside in the NY snow -- here it is about 75 degrees, the sky is sharp blue and the doors are op...</description>
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 <title>Letter from Quetzeltenango</title>
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 <description>Dear Chuck &amp; Diane,



Today, we&#039;re in a small city in the northwest of Guatemala called Quetzeltenango.  It&#039;s a nice town in a bowl of mountains but there&#039;s not much to do here.  Last week we were on the Pacific coast of Mexico in a small bea...</description>
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 <title>Re: Can We Make Definite Plans Now?</title>
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 <description>Good morning, Diane,

Yea, we´re finally on the way.  Your plans sound perfect for us.  We won´t be able to meet you in Mex City because we´ll already be in Guatemala.  

But, I do have a couple of suggestions¨:</description>
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 <title>Can We Make Definite Plans Now?</title>
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 <description>Good morning Diane,



So does this mean you can make firm plans now?



Here&#039;s where we are:  We have made ourselves comfortable in San Cristobal de las Casas because it is such a cutesy town with tons of restaurants and shopping.  But we...</description>
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 <title>Notes from Mexico</title>
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 <description>Well, it took us a bit longer to get out of Toronto this time but we finally made it. We headed out October 29th and rushed our way through Mexico City so as to arrive in Oaxaca in time for la Dia del Muertos (the Day of the Dead) festivities.

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 <title>Running into old friends on the road - Europe &#039;98</title>
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 <description>This trip just sort of happened when our friends Robbie and Andy who were renting an apartment in Rome called us to say they had found us an inexpensive one-bedroom apartment in Rome as well.  

We leapt at the opportunity and spent May and June...</description>
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 <title>Advisory to American Travelers to France - June 1998</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=122</link>
 <description>The following advisory for American travellers heading for France was compiled from information provided by the US State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, the US Chamber of Commerce, the Food and Drug  Administration, the Centres for Di...</description>
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 <title>Letter from Antigua</title>
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 <description>Hola Diane and Chuck,



So sorry we didn&#039;t link up with you by phone yesterday but cj had a good chat with Ben and we were actually thrilled to hear that Chuck is out and about.  Of course we&#039;re sad that we won&#039;t be seeing you again on this t...</description>
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 <title>We&#039;re in Antigua</title>
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 <description>Hi there Wim &amp; Hanny,

We&#039;re now in Antigua Guatemala which we&#039;ve fallen in love with.
We&#039;ll probably hang out in Guatemala for a couple of weeks before going 
on to Costa Rica.  On Tuesday we&#039;ll go to Panajachel for a week or two in 
the hig...</description>
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 <title>Letter from Merida</title>
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 <description>We&#039;re in relatively big, noisy Merida in the Yucatan, just leaving for Isla Mujeres, a ferry ride away from Cancun, and then on to Cozumel where I&#039;m determined to dive along its famous reef wall.  



We&#039;ve been following the Ruta Maya, visiti...</description>
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 <title>Letter from Oaxaca</title>
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 <description>Buenos tardes, amigos,



We&#039;ve been in Oaxaca (pronounce wa-ha-ka) now for almost 2 weeks and love it as much as we&#039;ve loved every other part of Mexico that we&#039;ve seen.



Oaxaco is a relatively flat town set in the centre of a valley amo...</description>
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 <title>A Proposal for a New European Language</title>
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 <description>EURO - ENGLISH

The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.  As part of the negotiat...</description>
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 <title>Updating You On Our Next Trip</title>
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 <description>Hi there, folks,



Hope you&#039;re well and adjusting to the fall season, - getting your turkey

ready, etc.  Oops.  Your Thanksgiving is different from ours.  Canadian

Thanksgiving is Oct 12 this year so we get to do the turkey long before...</description>
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 <title>Beethoven&#039;s Ninth</title>
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 <description>Quite a number of years ago, the Seattle Symphony was doing Beethoven&#039;s Ninth under the baton of Milton Katims ...  Now at this point, you must understand two things:

(1) There&#039;s quite a long segment in this symphony where the basses don&#039;t have...</description>
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 <title>Laws of Work</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=94</link>
 <description>The Laws of Work

    Just because most of us aren&#039;t told the laws, doesn&#039;t mean they don&#039;t exist. Ignorance of these laws is no excuse.</description>
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 <title>Jacking in from the World&#039;s Shopping Mall</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=36</link>
 <description>November 23, 1996



... but definitely not a discount mall.



My Rockport shoes from Yorkdale are exactly the same price here.



My Nikon binoculars are exactly the same price here.



My Sportsacs have exactly the same price ta...</description>
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 <title>Jacking in from the Left Coast</title>
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 <description>So here we are in Palo Alto getting ready for our flight tonight to

Hong Kong and points East (or is it West from Hong Kong).

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 <title>Letter to the Maid</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=93</link>
 <description>Of particular interest to folks who stay in hotels a lot....

Attached is some correspondence which actually occurred between a London hotel&#039;s staff and one of its guests. The London hotel involved submitted this to the &quot;Sunday Times.&quot; No name w...</description>
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 <title>IBM Introduces New Technology</title>
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 <description>KABINDA, ZAIRE--In a move IBM offices are hailing as a major step in the company&#039;s ongoing worldwide telecommunications revolution, M&#039;wana Ndeti, a member of Zaire&#039;s Bantu tribe, used an IBM global uplink network modem
yesterday to crush a nut.
...</description>
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 <title>Bill Gates to Get Half</title>
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 <description>REDMOND, WA--In a move designed to hasten the inevitable, billionaire Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates announced yesterday that from now on, he will be getting half.

 

    Gates, whose savvy and aggressiveness propelled his Microsoft corporation ...</description>
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 <title>India To Clean Restaurants</title>
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 <description>[APWire:International-0819.181]    8/19/96

        India To Clean Restaurants

           NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Clip your nails, wash your hands and, for
        heaven&#039;s sake, take a bath.

           Alarmed at unhygienic conditions in...</description>
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 <title>A Nauga Story</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=113</link>
 <description>Many people in the 60&#039;s believed that naugahide was made from the skins of little .  This site is dedicated to providing information about , their history and their preservation.  

According to the site,  shed their hides naturally.

http://n...</description>
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 <title>Spontaneous Human Combustion</title>
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 <description>MARY REESER:
                             A Case Study in
                      Spontaneous Human Combustion
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The 1951 death of Mrs. Mary Reese of St. Petersburg, FL, who was found reduced to...</description>
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 <title>The Shift-Key FAQ - Version 0.001</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=17</link>
 <description>by Alan Meiss

Unleash the Power of Shift!</description>
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 <title>It&#039;s Day 15!!</title>
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 <description>July 25, 1995

It&#039;s day 15.

Was there ever a day 15 before?

Day 15 is the day after the longest vacation that we&#039;ve ever taken together.  It&#039;s the day after we always had to come home moaning about how short even a two week vacation is and...</description>
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 <title>Laws of Sanity</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=90</link>
 <description>* No staring out the peep-hole in the middle of the night.

* The voices aren&#039;t saying anything meaningful.

* The door really is locked.</description>
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 <title>Useful Phrases to Know When Travelling in Muslim Lands</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=89</link>
 <description>If you are ever travelling in a Muslim country, you may find it useful to know these simple phrases.  For the sake of the Islam nation, be it known that only 2% of the population belongs to the radical extremist faction of the religion who are res...</description>
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 <title>Zen Humour</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=88</link>
 <description>Didja hear about the monk who said to the hotdog vendor
&quot;make me one with everything&quot;.</description>
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 <title>Twinkie Failure Testing</title>
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 <description>    In an effort to clarify questions about the purported durability and 
    unusual physical characteristics of Twinkies, we subjected the Hostess 
    snack logs to the following experiments:</description>
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 <title>Lengthy Court Battles Expected as Microsoft Sues Itself</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=15</link>
 <description>Litigation Will Give Competitors Time to &quot;Reload,&quot; Attorneys Say
   
The inevitable finally took place this week as Microsoft, distracted
by product development activities, took the dramatic step of filing
suit against itself in Federal Distri...</description>
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 <title>My First Website</title>
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 <description>In April, 1995 I travelled to San Jose, California for the second annual Internet World conference held by Mecklermedia (I had been at the first show the year before).  It was small but incredibly exciting as everyone there felt that &quot;last year&#039;s ...</description>
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 <title>Microsoft Unveils New Joe-Bob (tm) Software</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=14</link>
 <description>by Andrew Burke



REDMOND, Wash. -- April 10, 1995 --  Microsoft today announced the release

of Joe-Bob(tm), a new software package that the company hopes will open up

a huge untapped computer market. With the motto &quot;The software for th...</description>
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 <title>Microsoft Declares Employee Split</title>
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 <description>REDMOND, Wash. -- April 1, 1995 -- Microsoft Corporation today announced that its Board of Directors approved a 3-for-2 employee split.  All Microsoft employees will undergo binary fission, thus doubling the workforce.  Managers will receive one a...</description>
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 <title>Just because I&#039;m paranoid...</title>
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 <description>We&#039;ve all heard this line before:

        Just because I&#039;m paranoid, it doesn&#039;t mean that no one is out to get me.

After the latest issue of a system administator who wants to &quot;help&quot; me and all the other users, I&#039;ve realized that:

       ...</description>
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 <title>Microsoft Tester Dies Tragically</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=85</link>
 <description>REDMOND, Wa - The Microsoft Redmond Campus was rocked by tragedy today as Paul Fitzgerald, Test Engineer on the Windows NT Team, was brutally murdered in an apparently psychotic tirade by one of the &quot;personalities&quot; of Microsoft&#039;s latest operating ...</description>
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 <title>Technology Update from IBM</title>
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 <description>The IBM Zurich laboratory unveiled the world&#039;s fastest chip this week.
The chip, code named &quot;Timeless&quot;, is based on high temperature super-
conductors and is capable of transferring data signals faster than the
speed of light.  This makes it po...</description>
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 <title>Microsoft Acquiring Department of Justice</title>
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 <description>REDMOND, Wash. -- Oct 14, 1994 -- Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) confirmed today that it is acquiring the Department of Justice as an addition to its impressive legal department.  The agreement was signed today for an unspecified sum.  Bill Gates, ...</description>
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 <title>Barney Does Breakfast and is Charged With Murder!!</title>
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 <description>Washington (PETER FUNK PRESS)



     Barney the dinosaur, star of the children&#039;s television show &quot;Barney&quot;, 

 went berserk this morning during his show and ate three of his child co-

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 <title>Star Trek TNG - The Lost Episode Transcript</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=11</link>
 <description>(Picard) &quot;Mr. LaForge, have you had any success with your 

attempts at finding a weakness in the Borg? And Mr. Data, have you been able to access their command pathways?&quot;



(Geordi) &quot;Yes, Captain. In fact, we found the answer by searching ...</description>
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 <title>Is Your Head About to Explode?</title>
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 <description>From the WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, May 24, 1994



MOSCOW --



Doctors are blaming a rare electrical imbalance in the brain

 for the bizarre death of a chess player whose head literally exploded in the middle of a championship game!



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 <title>The mini-Annals of Improbable Research</title>
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 <description>This is the first issue of &quot;The mini-Annals of Improbable Research&quot; 
published at MIT starting in 1994.  It has continued to this day and 
can be found at www.improbable.com where you can find the current 
issue and complete archives.  This was...</description>
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 <title>CompuGov Deal Goes Through</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=9</link>
 <description>
WASHINGTON-The federal government was sold today to CompuGov, a high-tech consortium that includes IBM, Microsoft, AT&amp;T, Northern Telecom, Sony and several other corporate giants in Europe and Japan.
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 <title>Microsoft Bids to Acquire Catholic Church</title>
 <link>http://www.cyberjackandsweetie.com/weblog/nucleus/bookmarklet.php?action=edit&amp;itemid=7</link>
 <description>By Hank Vorjes

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- In a joint press conference in St. Peter&#039;s Square this morning, Microsoft Corp. and the Vatican announced that the Redmond software giant will acquire the Roman Catholic Church in exchange for an unspecified ...</description>
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 <title>Memo of the Month</title>
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 <description>1990 Jul 12 at 11:17 EDT

 SUBJECT:   IBM Ball Replacement
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    Abstract: Mouse Balls Available as FRU (Field
    Replacement Unit)

 Mouse balls are now available as FRU.  Therefore,...</description>
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