Yet another busy weekend

Its been a busy weekend here at MT.Net. We had “family movie night” Friday evening when we watched a DVD of Lady and the Tramp. Saturday was still cold, but I wouldn’t know. I spent most of the day inside the attic pounding away at some new flooring I’ve been building.

Saturday night, Kelly and I watched Sophie Scholl – The Final Days from our NetFlix list. The movie chronicled the last days of Scholl – a 21-year-old anti-Nazi resister. Wow, Scholl and her brother were brave souls!
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Highlights of 2007: Rodger Koopman’s campaign

And now for my last and most important event of 2007: my work on the Raleigh City Council campaign of Rodger Koopman. I felt like I was finally in my element: helping with strategy, studying voters, hosting a meet-and-greet, minding campaign signs until late in the night, knocking on hundreds of doors, and finally managing poll greeters on election day. It was hard work – possibly the hardest volunteer work I’ve done – but I loved every minute of it.
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Ibiblio spam

Yesterday I switched my .forward on my Ibiblio account to point to my Gmail address. Poof! About 99% of the spam I was getting moved with it.

If my Ibiblio account wasn’t so useful or Ibiblio’s mission so important, I’d have probably axed it a long time ago, simply for the amount spam it generates.

Another dead Western Digital drive

A dozen years ago I was a young IT manager at a Raleigh software company. I had just ordered new Gateway 2000 PCs for our developers but something was terribly wrong. After just six months of service, the Western Digital hard drives in the new PCs all failed, taking a lot of work with them and adding a lot of work for me to rebuild the systems. I swore I would never buy another Western Digital hard drive.

Time moves on and the anger subsides. WD did the right thing by replacing all the defective drives. Quality improved. I dared purchase more WD stuff.
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Highlights of 2007: Benjamin’s birth

It was a great honor to welcome our newest nephew into the world when Benjamin Kaelin Turner was born to my brother Allen and his wife, Tanya. As typical for Allen and Tanya’s children, Benjamin was born while we were on vacation. So we didn’t get to meet him until we returned, at which point he already weighed 205 pounds and had a mean fadeaway jumper. Dang, but Turner kids grow up fast.

Benjamin is almost certainly the last Turner niece or nephew we’ll have. Now that makes me feel old.