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So Pirate-gy your blog and use the Text Filter Suite plugin to make all ye posts honor this wonderful day.

Yesterday was MJ’s 5th birthday, and we had a nice family dinner at his favorite restaurant: Burger King.

We were joined by Matt and Debbi, and their kids, so it was a nice small celebration. MJ opened up some of his presents that included: 35 dollars in cash and gift cards (enough to buy him a big-boy bike), a nice set of Cars (Mac, Blue Dinaco Lightining McQueen, and Flo and Ramon), a super stomping Optimus Prime, two other smaller transformers, and a Diego action figure. Made out good, he did. If Angie is feeling up to it she might post some pictures.

In this morning’s news I found out that its the birthday of the smiley:

Fahlman posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on Sept. 19, 1982, during a discussion about the limits of online humor and how to denote comments meant to be taken lightly.

“I propose the following character sequence for joke markers: ,” wrote Fahlman. “Read it sideways.”

The suggestion gave computer users a way to convey humor or positive feelings with a smile — or the opposite sentiments by reversing the parenthesis to form a frown.

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Computer science and linguistics professors contacted by The Associated Press said they were unaware of who first used the symbol.

“I’ve never seen any hard evidence that the sequence was in use before my original post, and I’ve never run into anyone who actually claims to have invented it before I did,” Fahlman wrote on the university’s Web page dedicated to the smiley face. “But it’s always possible that someone else had the same idea — it’s a simple and obvious idea, after all.”

Variations, such as the “wink” that uses a semicolon, emerged later.

So… Happy Birthday Smiley!

brought to you by the letter H, and the number 6.

*Monday Morning Laugh Out Loud Moment

Or… Happy Programmer’s Day!

[h/t Engadget]

From my sweetbippy, here is a list of things that Jon needs:

• Jon needs logs of support from the homefront and elesewhere to help him.
• Jon needs to get his money right
• Jon need to stop sending drinks now!
• Jon needs to learn that his actions can ultimately destroy the he seeks to…
• Jon needs to let people know how passionate he is about quality.
• Jon needs to Man Up!
• Jon needs a new name
• Jon needs to change his classroom management practices
• Jon needs to add more features…
• Jon needs a new shift key

about shoelaces, but were afraid to ask.

Including the world’s fastest way to tie your shoes, the Ian Knot.

And how to tie shoelaces that don’t end up in a Granny Knot.

Where was this when I was in Elementary school.  I sure this knowledge has been hidden from public knowledge from the evil Velcro Cartel, that doesn’t want little boys and girls to know the wonder and mystery of shoelace tying.  So I’m gonna speak truth to power, and point you to the site with the truth. (I only hope I don’t endanger Ian, that would be bad)

Ian Knot Video

Well the look and feel anyways.  Angie’s blog is looking saweet…

I like the new orange look… fits my Beaver roots.  But who knows I might be bored with it by tomorrow.

I’m using Windows Live Writer Beta 2 to write this post.  It will automatically post to my Sharepoint blog that resides on my Windows Home Server, running Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0.  Actually, this is cross-posted to my WordPress blog.  The steps to do that, click Weblog, click the other blog, click publish.  Boy that was hard!

Oh my, I’m becoming a Windows Fan-Boi!

Actually, I’m impressed, the Live Writer tool, also posts to my Word Press blog, without a hitch and uploads pictures and allows me to write pretty much WYSIWYG type posts.  Which means, while I may not say much of anything of meaning, at least it might look pretty.

It also has spell checking, like I’d need to use it. HA