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Reading Time: < 1 minuteJimmy at Age 1: Jimmy is one year old today! [ Photo: Kathleen Aiello ] My son Jimmy Aiello turns 1 today. Tonight we’re having a small family celebration dinner. The larger party for family and friends is this weekend. Jimmy and Kathleen are spending the week at Sea Isle City, NJ while…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the more interesting articles I’ve read recently is the reflection of a French Internet community leader on his role in the Nicolas Sarkozy presidential campaign. Loic LeMeur is one of the founders of the LeWeb3 who decided to invite the three leading candidates for the French presidency to his…

Reading Time: 2 minutesI worked on the migration of a cPanel server almost every working moment from February 27 to March 6. This was an effort to give my Weblog Improvement clients a better, more stable hosting environment. The first stage of the migration was intended to be the only stage, but the server that…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSorry I was away from Operation Gadget for the past few days. This weekend I officiated games in the playoffs for the Great Northeast Collegiate Hockey Conference and the Atlantic Amateur Hockey Association. I spent most of the weekend at one of the rinks in Pennsylvania where these tournaments were being…

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s been snowing or sleeting in Bucks County, PA since noon on Tuesday. The snow that was falling yesterday afternoon and evening didn’t amount to very much. This seemed really odd to me because the weather has been below freezing for at least the last two weeks. We’ve also got frozen lakes…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteKathleen and I are going to see Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs at the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia. Kathleen’s alumni association from Middlebury College arranged a group tour. Febe Armanios an assistant professor of history at Middlebury will give a presentation on what we will see.…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve spent four of the last five days in arenas in Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, and that’s reflected in the lack of new content on Operation Gadget. It’s amazing how little of this type of car travel I remember from when I was in college. In those days, I used…