Bill Manning’s Blog

I can’t believe that it will be 2004 tomorrow. All I can say is that 2003 was a hell of year. It will be one that I will remember forever. Carolyn and I bought a house and had a baby. I guess I got everything done. It was also a year for saddness, Carolyn’s co-worker Diana died after a winning a fight against Breast Cancer, she was a hell of a lady. It was a year where I went from being a contractor to a full-time employee to contractor again without leaving my desk. It was great year for friends and family. I really hope that 2004 will be a great year also. I hope that everyone has a great and safe New Years Eve tonight. Carolyn, Liam and I will taking it easy tonight. Liam is not up to partying to hard yet. Plus my new Treo arrives today and I will be playing with it (I am so lame).
Happy New Year,
B (I have never used these icons before, I guess I should do it before the end of the year.)

P.S. I have a new random header at the top of the page. Everytime you refresh you get one of 8 random images. These images are from pictures that I have taken.

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I have been catching up on the news and came across acouple of articles that are really great.

Bottom Line: We’re Gone in the SF Gate about the growing cost of running a business in California and why companies are moving to places like Nevada.
New iPod Rumors over at ThinkSecret.com.
The Eight Biggest Tech Flops Ever.
MySQL 5.0.0 has been released, I can’t wait to get home and download it.
A Surgical Analysis of the SCO Group Imbroglio

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I just wanted to change the look of the site. I will update the blog later. I have been really busy.

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We just felt an earthquake at my office, it was about 150 miles south of here. The USGS.com has all the information. Time to buy water front property in Nevada. So I added a second map to show the activity in the past coouple of hours. I am sure Alex is happy he is in Denver now.

Vehicles are covered by debris Monday in downtown Paso Robles, Calif., where the earthquake also partially collapsed a large building.

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