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WILLIAM R. BOWMAN Sr. Wallkill, N.Y. William R. Bowman Sr. of Wallkill, retired from New York State Bridge Maintenance, entered into rest Saturday, June 9, 2001, at home. He was 67. The son of Arthur and Elizabeth Cleary Bowman, he was born October 10, 1933 in Wallkill. He was a member of the U.S. Army during the Korean Conflict. Survivors include his wife, Florence Davis Bowman at home; four sons, William Bowman Jr.

RONNIE DAVIS Newburgh, N.Y. Mr. Ronnie Davis, 49, a long time employee of Consolidated Iron of Newburgh, NY, passed away Friday, December 3, 2004 of cancer in Little Falls Hospital, Little Falls, NY. Both a loving and devoted father and husband, he leaves behind his wife, Linda and daughter Melissa; son-in-law, John; three granddaughters: Cheyenne, Mary and Amber; two sisters: Florence and Donna and a brother, Rick. Funeral services will be private and at the convenience of the family. Friends and relatives may contact the family at 1 (315) 823-9373.

New Paltz, Aug 28. -- Mrs. Rachel E Miller, widow of John J. Miller, died Friday, August 24, at her home in New Paltz, where she had lived for many years. The funeral was held Monday from the Friends Church at Clintondale. Mrs. Miller was 80? years old and is survived by a son, Levi Miller of New Paltz; two daughters, Mrs. Eliza Rhodes, of Maryland, and Mrs. Emma Welch of Bridgeport, Conn.; two brothers, Silas Davis of Poughkeepsie, and William Davis of Clintondale; one sister, Mrs. Emma Rhodes of Clinton Corners, and several grandchildren. Burial was in Lloyd Cemetery.

For her 30th birthday, my friend Jen decided to throw a man-pageant. Good looking men were invited to compete and serve the food to the guests. Had we switched the genders, no one would have batted an eye. Instead, this happened.

Specifically, the men who send notice of their non-attendance because they feel threatened by the contestants, because they feel that their bodies would “scare people” if exposed, or because, simply, “that sounds castrating.”

I've moved some of our queues from a MySQL table to Amazon's Simple Queue Service (SQS). The main reason I did this is that we are processing more than a million tasks a day using at least 4 servers and that amount of processing in a database situation was a bit more than I could handle. I haven't been able to move all of our queues over, in part due to the 8k message limit, but it's been great for the queues moved over thus far.

Gov. Palin and Senator Clinton address the nation

This is a recording of a presentation given by Mark Meeker on Microformats. Mark is an Architect on the UI Engineering team at Orbitz Worldwide.

I wish I could have been there. Merlin Mann walks us mere mortals through a great new site for "Thought Leaders" called FlockdUp. If my chair didn't have arm rests, I would have been literally rolling on the floor laughing.

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Poor furry little guy has no where to live. Won't you plant a tree?

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This is one of my favorite SNL sketches ever.
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