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I’ve never experienced one this bad in the eight or so years I’ve lived here in Williamstown, NJ. Hail. Flooded yard. Darn near got the car stuck out in a flooded street long after I thought the worst was over.
Here’s a few pictures. Check out the one with the bed frame, which I was (planning [...]

Jumping right in. What the heck is it?

My bet is is that it’s a dog with the top part of its jaw broken off. Somebody floated this idea (at Gawker, I think). Were it’s paws lashed? Seems to be a sad result of some animal abuse I think.
Investigating the Montauk Monster: The Story Deepens! — [...]

I got involved because my company had a booth there. I ended up taking some pictures and having a lot of fun. Of particular interest was a performance ensemble call “Strange Fruit,” who you can visit here.
Here’s a few pics… enjoy!

Got my first real SOAP challenge: I’ve got to integrate Cybersource’s payment system into our newish RHEL5 servers. The challenge is that our OS is now 64-bit, and we were using their Simple Order 32-bit API in the form of php and perl extensions.
Bzzt. No go. Wisely, Cybersource has decided to go the Web Services direction, so the implementation isn’t [...]