BIG Announcement (and Cookie Time)

A-hem! Hear-ye hear-ye! After many months of hard work and completely professional, non-wifey nagging, Chris has emerged from the basement victorious!

A free trial version of Mini-Compressor is ready for downloading!  Try before you buy!  That’s worth repeating - trial version of Mini-Compressor!  Download it now!

[caption id=“attachment_1045” align=“aligncenter” width=“300”]Celebratory Cookie Jar from Washington Convention Center Celebratory Cookie Jar from Washington Convention Center[/caption]

What about the cookies? Check out the Privacy Policy that finally made it to the website!

Saturday MP turns 6 – for real!

Again? Didn’t we just have a 6th birthday this time last year? We re-crunched some numbers and re-calibrated our maths. Today is when we should have put 6 candles on the cake. We knew we were older than we looked.

[caption id=“attachment_1032” align=“aligncenter” width=“300”]SatMP 6th birthday cake Birthday Cake for everyone![/caption]

MM – Heart-shaped Delicacy Edition

We know it’s not Monday, but if you have any doubt as to what heart-themed holiday it is today, check your local retail store!

This little darling came off our apple tree a few years ago, and I couldn’t resist immortalizing it.

Taken with Sony DSC-W580:

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There you go! With Mini-Compressor, you get all the sweetness with no quality loss (even with a compression index of 50)

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Life in the Basement – Olympic Edition

It’s on! As they say in these parts, “the puck has dropped”. The 2014 Olympic Games have begun. Go, Team!

While I don’t fancy myself to be an athlete of any sort, I like to think that we basement-dwellers are similar to Olympians (no disrespect intended, of course). Of what little I know about these hard-working athletes, they’re pretty good – some are the best in their fields. Sometimes they win world titles and we don’t pay attention. It’s once every 4 years when we familiarize ourselves with their names and cheer loudly. Then after the flame is extinguished, they fade back into training and winning world titles and we return to our routines.

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