Archive for December, 2007

Happy Holidays

We here at CoffeeBear.net wish you and yours a happy & safe hol­i­day sea­son. Also our good friends1 over at Aper­a­ture Sci­ence wish you a Happy <Hol­i­day Name Here>. The video cur­rently play­ing over at Aper­a­ture Sci­ence is a nice hol­i­day ges­ture and heav­ily loaded with easter eggs. The ones I noticed were: The presents […]

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Ice Storm Photos

11 Dec 2007. Iowa. Cedar Rapids. The weather did suck. Mightly. 12 Dec 2007 every­thing was coated in a beau­ti­ful1 layer of ice. For­tu­nately my employer allows me to work from home and I did so yes­ter­day. I still went out­side, cleared off the cars and moved them to the other side of the street. […]

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Chocolate Covered Cherries Plus!

This recipe is based on the Easy Choco­late Cov­ered Cher­ries recipe from the National Cherry Grow­ers & Indus­tries Foun­da­tion. My wife and I spot­ted the recipe in the Decem­ber 2007 issue of Every­day Food. We did go for an optional vari­ant of the recipe that they men­tioned and increased the size. We made this for […]

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WordPress Plugins: PHPInfo and PluginsUsedPlugin

I’ve been work­ing on some stuff behind the scenes here at CoffeeBear.net with the inten­tion of even­tu­ally upgrad­ing the site’s back­end and devel­op­ing a new theme for the site. In the process of doing all this behind the scenes works, I’ve been try­ing out new plu­g­ins and wanted a quick way to check my server’s […]

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Reading List

If you hop over to my library page, you’ll notice my read­ing list has grown con­sid­er­ably. That’s because I just added in all the books we bought at the annual book sale held by our local pub­lic library. There’s far too many for me to fin­ish them all this year, but I hope to have […]

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