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Brent’s Thoughts — the old blog, 2001 onward. Mostly tech, skepticism, and family.

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Paxton Net2 Time Issue

Your controllers get their time from the server, so if you setup a new server and don't update the timezone from say Pacific to Central, all your controllers will be reporting behind by two hours. The fix is to update the timezone on the server,…

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Kyle Austin Norris Arrives

Our son Kyle Austin Norris arrived Tuesday morning. He was seven pounds fourteen ounces and twenty one inches long. Pauline did great again with the whole process and is recovering well. Julie has given him a lot of kisses and everything is going well.

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More Julie Pictures

For Pauline's birthday we ended up going to Huber's Orchard in Moonlight Indiana. Dad and I took several pictures while we were there and it seems like Julie had a really good time. We have also had her in her little pool some trying to…

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Hey we got a car 2

P and I purchased a new car yesterday. We got a Chevy Traverse from Havey Ellis Chevy in Columbia . They did a great job of getting the car for us and also for working around a problem with my GM card. I don't have…

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Final on the house

I had previously posted on how we were doing on paying off our house. Well today I went to the bank and paid off the remainder of the loan. We are done.

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Adventure LVL 5 The Lost Blade

lvl-5-the-lost-blade This set of encounters went pretty well with our group. There were a few hitches, but everyone made it through alive and only one of the group really had any chance of dying. I have talked to a couple of them and they acted…

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DnD 4e

For the last year or so I have been playing Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition with some people around here. It started out as some of my friends just needing a person to fill in, but became an almost weekly thing. I had forgotten how…

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Easter 2009

Our spring break fell right before Easter this year, and I decided that I would take a few days off this year. Julie and I hung out Thursday and then Pauline took Friday off as well and we all goofed around the house. Sunday came…

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Julie pictures from the Ice Storm

We had a pretty bad ice storm here a few weeks ago. It didn't really hurt us much in our part of the county, but in the northern part of the county it caused a lot of damage. It ended up shutting school down for…

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Court Ruling on MMR and Autism

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/12/autism.vaccines/?iref=mpstoryview Federal courts ruled today that there is no link between the MMR vaccine and Autism. Something that is easily proven if you look at the science on record for the vaccine and stop listening to people like Jenny McCarthy (even as hot as she…