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		<title>Boston Rock Gym&#8217;s Heart of Steel 2011</title>
		<link>http://blog.thomascsherman.com/2011/04/boston-rock-gyms-heart-of-steel-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s Heart of Steel was a step up over last year. The event was broken up into two sections, the morning for open (pro), beginner and youth. The afternoon for intermediate and advanced. This alleviated the wall congestion of 2010 and gave the event a more relaxed atmosphere. 2010 was crazy. Climbers were getting on walls as people were falling off in the crush to get climbs in. This year I got in more than enough climbs and was exhausted by the end of the event. I wish that they had set some boulder problems in the far room because I enjoyed the separate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surgery Day Break Down</title>
		<link>http://blog.thomascsherman.com/2011/01/surgery-day-break-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surgery day was hard. As hard as I thought it would be. Last night on preop day I managed to get our Christmas tree down and then fell into an exhausted sleep around 9pm. At 5:30am the alarm went off and it was time to drag myself out of bed and start hurriedly  getting ready for the day. Since we had fallen asleep so early we had not managed to pack our things nor given Julian a disinfecting bath using special sponges from the hospital. So the first order of business was waking Julian and getting him bathed. Next was packing between mouthfuls of cereal. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Details of Julian&#8217;s Surgery</title>
		<link>http://blog.thomascsherman.com/2011/01/details-of-julians-surgery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Julian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I promised in my last post to get into what a surgeon, Dr. Craig, could detail of Julian&#8217;s heart procedure. When he came in and sat down Dr. Craig took on a conversational attitude and prepped us in a matter of fact way. Some things he said made my mind race with worry. For more complicated surgeries like this&#8230; Hundreds of stitches&#8230; There are several risk factors. I am a man on a high speed training hurtling along the tracks. I know that most likely this train takes me to somewhere safe and beautiful, but I also know that this train can derail at any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Julian&#8217;s Pre-op Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.thomascsherman.com/2011/01/julians-pre-op-day/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thomascsherman.com/2011/01/julians-pre-op-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Julian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was a big day. We had Julian&#8217;s preop appointment where he was analyzed to ensure he was healthy and ready for his surgery. We started out at 7:30am in admitting and then moved up to a small office where a coordination team was prepped and ready to get things moving. I thought that like most doctor&#8217;s visits we would spend the majority of the time sitting around, but it was a whirlwind trip through the hospital. We started by visiting radiology for a chest x-ray. I had to hold Julian&#8217;s arms up against his head and keep him very still for the x-rays. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts Revokes Your Choice of Insurance Provider</title>
		<link>http://blog.thomascsherman.com/2010/12/massachusetts-revokes-your-choice-of-insurance-provider/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thomascsherman.com/2010/12/massachusetts-revokes-your-choice-of-insurance-provider/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editorials]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[blue cross blue shield]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thomascsherman.com/?p=426</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In November my wife and I received a very surprising and disturbing letter. Our health insurance provider Blue Cross Blue Shield told us that since we are eligible for health insurance through my work we were no longer eligible to purchase insurance through Blue Cross Blue Shield. Not only that, but our current policy would be canceled at some point in the future. I must have read the letter ten times. Think about this. Massachusetts may have ruled that you cannot choose your health insurance provider, but the real calamity is that Massachusetts is effectively determining who your health care providers are too. We use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress iPad App &#8211; Invalid Username / Password &#8211; Login Failed</title>
		<link>http://blog.thomascsherman.com/2010/11/wordpress-ipad-app-invalid-username-password/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thomascsherman.com/2010/11/wordpress-ipad-app-invalid-username-password/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thomascsherman.com/?p=413</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So I downloaded the free WordPress for iPad app and it didn&#8217;t work. Login failed. It is a free app, and overall it is pretty good. But I always find it very disappointing when things that should &#8220;just work&#8221; don&#8217;t. I think I have mentioned this before, but one of the great failings of the open source community is to make things that work out of the box without having to google obscure things. I&#8217;ve done my fair share of Software Quality Assurance in my life and I know that it sucks and is boring and developers don&#8217;t like to do it&#8230; but using the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spoon.net forced to pull Internet Explorer</title>
		<link>http://blog.thomascsherman.com/2010/11/spoon-net-forced-to-pull-internet-explorer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thomascsherman.com/2010/11/spoon-net-forced-to-pull-internet-explorer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 02:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ie6]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[internet explorer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microsoft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spoon.net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[virtual application]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I logged into a website that any web developer surely appreciates. Spoon.net. Their software allows you to run a large number of web browsers on your local machine just like they were actually installed. You have heard of virtual machines? Well these are virtual applications. Everything nice and bundled up and working like a natively installed app. Which means that you can easily test IE6 and IE7 on your dev box without having to use crappy software like IE Tester or jumping through hoops to get concurrent installations setup or maintaining virtual machines or any of the rest of that crap. So you can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SQL Server Driver for PHP Setup Tutorial</title>
		<link>http://blog.thomascsherman.com/2010/09/sql-server-driver-for-php-setup-tutorial/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thomascsherman.com/2010/09/sql-server-driver-for-php-setup-tutorial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.thomascsherman.com/?p=344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So recently for work I had to work with some data in a Microsoft Access database. I imported this into SQL Server using the Microsoft Management Studio because the tools made my life easy. However my dev environment was already setup for php and I didn&#8217;t really feel like setting up an environment for ASP just to create some simple web pages for myself. I also wanted to avoid having to convert my db&#8217;s from Access to SQL Server and then import to MySQL. The answer is Microsoft&#8217;s opensource driver for PHP. This article will get you up and running in no time. Start by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Set the time for a SQL datetime</title>
		<link>http://blog.thomascsherman.com/2010/09/set-the-time-for-a-sql-datetime/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thomascsherman.com/2010/09/set-the-time-for-a-sql-datetime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SQL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[datetime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[set time]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent about an hour attempting to google the best way of changing the time of a SQL datetime midquery. I would think this would be easy, and it kind of was, but finding the logic that led me to it was confoundingly difficult. So hopefully you other googlers out there will benefit from my experience. This is for SQL Server, but other versions of SQL will have similar functions available to them.]]></description>
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		<title>Adding a computer to a wireless Canon ip5200R</title>
		<link>http://blog.thomascsherman.com/2010/07/adding-a-computer-to-a-wireless-canon-ip5200r/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.thomascsherman.com/2010/07/adding-a-computer-to-a-wireless-canon-ip5200r/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I need to add a computer to my wireless printer I can&#8217;t for the life of me remember how to do it. So this post is more for myself than anything, but hopefully someone else out there will benefit. This article assumes that you have already connected your wireless printer to your home wireless network. Go to www.canonusa.com and download the IJ network driver / Network tool. Not the setup utility nor the wireless setup assistant. Connect the computer to the printer via usb cable Run the setup program you just downloaded Select Next Select &#8220;Use it as is&#8221;  and Next Unplug the [...]]]></description>
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