Larry’s Log

Okay, I’m playing with RSS newsfeed widgets in the sidebar and I figure that since I live in the Atlanta area I ought to grab tha AJC Top Stories feed and throw that in here. Here’s the current top five stories.

Lakewood Antiques Market closing in October
Sandy Springs a happy guinea pig for outsourcing
Treasure seekers […]

I’ve been running phpBB at forums.larrydburton.com for a while now but I haven’t done much to promote the forums. I installed the software on my webserver just to play with it and to learn what its capabilities are in case I wanted to use it for one of the sites I help support. I had […]

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Last year I took my family to Mexico. This is a picture of my oldest son. He was 21 at the time. Does it look like he was having fun?
The occassion for the family going to Mexico was that my oldest had just turned 21 and my youngest had just turned 16. They were […]

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I’m playing around with Gallery 2 and attempting to embed it in this site. I sort of like what it’s doing but I’m not sure what all it does right now. Maybe at least you’ll get to see some more pictures. This seems like a much better way of organizing my photos. I’ll have to […]

…. a theme I can really be happy with. I’ve been playing around with banners for the current theme of this website and I really like the way that a simple change in the banner changes the entire feel of this design. When I get bored with the way things look all I have […]

I’m playing with a new theme. There is some tweaking I need to do to make it fit this site but I generally like what I have here. We’ve been having fog the last few mornings. I think I’ll be taking my camera down on the Chattahoochie in the near future.
In the meantime, though, I […]

I’ve started back to work after a week long break. I finished a long term project on the 7th and dropped back into the office to tie up some loose ends last Monday. I then took a week off for a little R&R.
Yesterday was my first day back and I had practically nothing to […]

I’m not a sports fan but I do enjoy going to baseball games. Minor league games are my favorites but this year I have been to more major league games than minor. A few weeks ago I watched a Phillies/Yankees game at Citizens Bank Park. The game was good until the 7th inning, at which […]

Just a quick entry to say that I’ve been listening to Pandora today and it is about as cool as it gets when it comes to listening to online music. Give it the name of an artist or song and it goes out and finds a bunch of other music similar enough to it that […]

Michael S. Cox is a spammer.

Desmond Doss passed away a few days ago. I just want to make sure I remember his story.

Okay, the barcodes are new. These are Numly Numbers (Electronic Serial Numbers / ESNs) for digital content and media. I’m not sure I need them but in my constant need to tinker and play I’ve implemented them just for the heck of it. If you want to know more about them here’s the FAQ.
If you […]

I hit 51 this past February and it has me thinking about retirement. Not so much because I want to retire, just because I’m getting to the age when you start considering it. When I was in my thirties I couldn’t imagine myself wanting to retire. To be honest, I’m not so sure I will […]

This morning I grabbed my packed bags and headed to the airport again. This will be the start of about a six week stint in Chester, Pennsylvania. Hopfully at the end of this period I will have wrapped up another project with expectations of starting another within driving distance of home.
After going through security and […]

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