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• I'm glad you asked ...

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• Featured Projects

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• Recent Bookmarks

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• Recent Tweets

  • I talk to the cats a lot more when @kpchapman isn't around the house. A LOT MORE. 3 hrs ago
  • Deciding: Manually re-follow the 50-odd people Twitter lost, or wait in the hope Twitter cleans up its mess? 6 hrs ago
  • @mattwaite I get excited about some particular feature in each release, then rarely if ever use it. In 3.2 we walked uphill both ways ... 8 hrs ago
  • Installing ArcGIS 9.2 service pack 6. Increasingly concerned ESRI maintenance contract lapsed and 9.3 is not on its way. 9 hrs ago
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