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Tonight, 2 March 2010, is the premier of "The Pluto Files" on the PBS science series "Nova." Pluto was discovered on February 18, 1930 by Clyde W. Tombaugh, the first planet discovery by an American. In 2006, its status was changed to dwarf planet amid much controversy. This episode of Nova explores the history of Pluto and the decision and reactions to its change in status. If you miss tonight's broadcast, the episode will be available on-line starting tomorrow, 3 March 2010.

Watch for our friend Declan Beaty on tomorrow's episode of "General Hospital." He's playing the part of a boy named "Jimmy." Like both of his older sisters, Madisen and Rylie, Declan has been acting for a few years, and has appeared on Hawthorne, Private Practice, How I Met Your Mother, as wel

Our friend Madisen Beaty is playing in "The Pregnancy Pact" which premieres Saturday, January 23 at 9 pm et/pt on Lifetime.

Congratulations to my brother and sister-in-law, Randall and Takako, on the birth of their second child. Emma was born at 2:09 AM this morning, 8 January 2010.

Since the beginning of the year, I've noticed that I had started to catch good email in my Mac OS X Server's email spam filter. It was odd, since it generally works quite well, and rarely catches any "false positives." This morning at my office, one of the guys I work with was having to patch one of our systems because of a "Y2K10 bug" where the date isn't interpreted correctly.

My father-in-law, Charles Junior Gaede, passed away on 24 February 2009 at age 89. He
was born in Richmond, Indiana on 11 February 1920 to Ruth Vera (Gehring) and Charles
Louis Gaede.

In 1936 he quit high school and performed odd jobs. He also painted houses for his
father for $35 per week. From 1939 to 1941 he worked in a camera shop in Richmond,
Indiana. This was an important position for Charles, as it became his goal to own his
own camera shop.

Welcome Baby Zoe! Congratulations to my sister, Meagan, and brother-in-law Mike. Zoe was born on July 1st at 9:46 am, weighing in at 8 pounds even, and 20 inches long. It sounds like Zoe, Mom and Dad, and big sister Savannah are all doing well. There is more at Meagan's blog.

Melissa will be performing in the Colorado Ballet production of Coppélia at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in the Denver Center for Performing Arts.

I've come to the conclusion that spammers have used a web crawler to harvest email addresses from my website, so I've removed all of the email links, including the pages for Friends and Family. I will clean up those pages and link them back in as soon as I have time.