http://lylejohnson.name/blog Covering Software Development with Ruby and FXRuby Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:04:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://lylejohnson.name/blog/2006/06/08/150/ http://lylejohnson.name/blog/2006/06/08/150/#comments Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:31:43 +0000 Lyle http://lylejohnson.name/blog/?p=150 My MacBook has supposedly just arrived at the FedEx location in Anchorage. Wonder how fast their planes fly, and if it will make it to Huntsville by tomorrow?

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