Monthly Archives: January 2008

A Ornamentum Vacuus A Distinctus

As recently reported by a number of others (see Patently-O), the US Patent Office is requiring a change to a document called a “Declaration” that every inventor must sign. A Declaration is basically a form where the inventor swears that … Continue reading

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Netflix download

Spincerely and I upgraded our home network yesterday to the latest wifi technology (aka in tech speak as the “Draft N standard).  Prior to this we had the “b-standard”.  The trusty old router held up great for five years, but … Continue reading

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Give a kid a screwdriver….

And they’ll want to take something apart! Agent K saw an old casio keyboard that I had thrown in the trash, and well, here’s the result K & B got excited smiles on their faces and asked if they could … Continue reading

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Life on the 21st floor

I knew that working in a city on the 21st floor would be different.  However, the one thing I didn’t consider was how the weather would look different. We had strange weather on Friday, including a thunderstorm at 6AM and … Continue reading

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Back up and running

I know all of you out there were really worried when the IHA blog went blank today.  We ran into a technical difficulty (suspected culprit is the new anti-virus software) when upgrading WordPress to v 2.3.2. But now we are … Continue reading

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Hartford is thawing

After the sub-zero temperatures last week, Hartford is thawing.  In keeping with my second resolution, I went for a 30 minute walk at lunch.  Here are some photos of the journey can be found on my flickr page.  IHA

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Resolutions

Here’s a quick post to keep my 3 posts a week resolution alive. I love, love, love the Samsung Blackjack II that Spincerely got me for Christmas.  Today, I’m finally going to remember to bring the CD to work so … Continue reading

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Happiness

This past Christmas was truly special.  As Spincerely wrote, we went to Vermont and stayed overnight at LFG and LFB’s house.  It was a wonderful to be surrounded by friends and family and eating yummy food, and of course, playing … Continue reading

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Happy New Year

A happy 2008 to you. It has been a bit slow around this blog, and what better way to kickoff the new year than some resolutions! Here are IHA’s resolutions for 2008 Yell less at the little agents. Lose weight … Continue reading

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