An interesting quit smoking help

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A colleague mentioned a site quitext.com which is a quit smoking support website.  They send you daily SMS' to help encourage you to quit smoking.  You can also buy it as a gift for someone you know.

I don't think I'll ever smoke myself, but I can understand wanting to quit smoking can be very difficult at times.  It's good to have different ways to help out.

MIX08

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Everybody is blogging about it.  I'm not there, but still the amount of betas rolling out from Microsoft is making me very happy.

  • ASP.NET MVP beta 2
  • IE8 beta
  • Silverlight 2 beta 1
  • Expression 2.5

Colleague forwarded a news article to me where Microsoft is partnering up with Nokia to deliver Silverlight on the Symbian platform.  So that's going to make this platform very tidy.

Good times.

Watching news

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Giving up caring about the US Election.  Being following the US Election, and sadly I stopped caring when Ohio and Taxes voted for Hillary Clinton.  With the democrats continuing their in-fighting while the republicans relied behind one nominee, I just can't see the government switching to the democrats.

Great job, please continue to help the other party by destroying each other's credentials.

Good by fish :-(

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I went home last night and Wifey told me we've lost another fish.  This is our second fish that we've lost since we've taken custody of the fish tank of a dear friend.

We never named the fish.  My logic was that if you name the fish you became emotionally attached to him a lot more.  Given that fish have much shorter life-spans than other pets, and are not likely to respond to name commands (unlike say a dog), there was no good reason to name the fish.

Still it was a bit sad to wrap the fish up in a piece of tissue and put him away.  The fish was drying up very quickly once it's out of the water and already I can see decay claiming it.

That was the 2nd of our small fish to go.  Now there's only the larger fish left in the tank.  I'm debating about whether to buy more but currently I'm settling on "no", I think when our friend comes back we'll return this tank, and then go ahead and get ourselves a bigger tank and we'll fill it with more fish.

jliu