http://blog.speljamr.com Just Another Pragmatic Programmer... Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:11:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en About one year ago I began using an online service called BookMooch, created by John Buckman. The objective of BookMooch is to create a take-a-book leave-a-book service using the internet. Book Mooch uses a point system for the exchange of books. The point system works like this: Add a book to ... http://blog.speljamr.com/2008/07/20/i-love-bookmooching/ The Ride for Roswell took place on June 28th 2008 and was a tremendous success. The ride raised $1.8 million in funds for cancer research, a record for this event. I managed to ride 30 miles, good considering how little I've ridden lately. Thank you to my aunts who gave ... http://blog.speljamr.com/2008/07/02/ride-for-roswell-2008-completed/ June 28th, 2008 marks the next annual Ride for Roswell. I will be participating for the first time, along with a couple of co-workers from Algonquin Studios. This annual ride is held to help raise funds for the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, an organization dedicated to the eradication of cancer. The ... http://blog.speljamr.com/2008/06/03/ride-for-roswell/ If your from the Buffalo, NY area the name in the title of this post will be very familiar to you. You've probably been hearing it in the news from time to time. For those of you not from the area, Jonathan Cote was kidnapped in Iraq in November of ... http://blog.speljamr.com/2008/04/28/jonathan-cote/ I consider this indie artist to be underated. Check out his video for the song My Narcoleptic Sara: http://blog.speljamr.com/2008/04/23/greg-yeti/ Something happened the other day that really bothered me. At first it made me extremely angry, so I let it stew for a couple of days, simmering in my mind. This gave me some time to absorb the lesson before just coming out and writing an angry post. So here ... http://blog.speljamr.com/2008/01/11/why-leadership-matters/ Here we are in the new year. Happy New Year to everyone. We started out our new year a bit rough. Shaun seems to have caught another bug and has thrown up twice this morning. Mostly flem and juice since he is not eating food well. So far little Teagan doesn't ... http://blog.speljamr.com/2008/01/01/new-years-day/ "Merry Christmas.Well, that's what people say at Christmas, right? Except normally they have somebody to say it to. They have their friends and family all around them. They haven't been crouched naked under a Christmas tree with a needle in their arm like an insane person in a mansion in ... http://blog.speljamr.com/2007/12/27/the-heroin-diaries-soundtrack/ I just had a great lunch with my wife at Taki's over on Court St. Taki's is a fantastic little hole in the wall you wouldn't realize was there unless you are from Buffalo, NY. They serve the typical greek fair found all around Buffalo, but it always tastes great ... http://blog.speljamr.com/2007/12/26/takis-for-lunch/ 23 http://blog.speljamr.com/2007/12/17/how-many-five-year-olds-could-you-take-in-a-fight/