Phil801

Author's details

Name: Phil Burns
Date registered: September 15, 2005
URL: http://www.phil801.com
Jabber / Google Talk: phil801

Latest posts

  1. The Falliability of Hard Drives and the Recovery of Data — June 14, 2014
  2. The Distributed Nature of Email Systems Vs The IRS’s Claims — June 14, 2014
  3. Dissecting the IRS’s Claims Regarding Lois Lerner’s “Lost Email” — June 14, 2014
  4. A Technologist’s Peer-Reviewed, In-Depth, Simplified Analysis of the IRS Claim of Lois Lerner’s Email Being Deleted — June 14, 2014
  5. It’s official: Apple fanboy desperation has splashed off the bottom into the Land of the Ludicrous — February 13, 2014

Most commented posts

  1. Leukemia: So cute it just might kill you. — 44 comments
  2. I think I’m in that Anger stage — 33 comments
  3. My baby might have Leukemia — 27 comments
  4. By the way, just a warning, the guy coming in after us is Gay. — 22 comments
  5. Diagnosis is in – she has Leukemia — 19 comments

Author's posts listings

Jul 30

Blood Drive was a Success! And, I’m a big Sissy!

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The Serenity Foundation’s first National Bloggers Blood Drive was a big, fun success!  We collected 23 units of blood which, by the numbers from ARUP, calculates to saving 69 lives – not bad for a quickly organized event!   I’ve uploaded the photos I took of several donors, they’re available on my Flickr Feed here. Twelve …

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Jul 30

Reminder: Blood Drive TODAY!

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General, Serenity

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Be a Hero, Save a Life, Donate Blood! This is just an RSS reminder about the National Bloggers Blood Drive today, if you’re in Utah please come join us at Twelve Horses in Draper any time from 3 – 8 pm today.  There will be movies, games, snacks and a couple prize drawings along with …

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Jul 28

Blood Drive on Wednesday!

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It’s almost time for The Serenity Foundation’s first quarterly National Bloggers Blood Drive!  The goal of the NBBD is to hold local blood drives in multiple locations around the world that occur at the same time allowing live tweeting/flickring and blogging to go on.  This being the first event and being planned with very little …

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Jul 18

Batman The Dark Knight – WOW!

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General

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OK, long time readers will know that I’ve been excited about Batman, The Dark Knight since hearing it was going to be made.  Well, tonight Adria managed to get us free tickets to the midnight opener and we just got back from it and HOLY awesome movie BATMAN!  I don’t want to ruin it for …

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Jul 17

Absolutely Horrible!

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General

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Joss Whedon, one of the wonders of the sci-fi/fantasy world and modern day superhero, has done it again!  If you don’t know Whedon’s work …. well, yes you do.  Whedon is the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and (the best series ever) Firefly.  Firefly of course was the precursor for the movie Serenity …

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Jul 09

Announcing the first quarterly Serenity Foundation National Bloggers Blood Drive!

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Serenity

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I’m really excited about this and I think it’s going to be REALLY cool!  July 30th will be the first quarterly National Bloggers Blood Drive, this is a new project we’re organizing at The Serenity Foundation.  As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been working on organizing a new twist on blood drives and …

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Jul 04

Organizing a blood drive – thoughts and volunteers wanted

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Serenity

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This is Day 39 of my baby, Serenity, being diagnosed with and treated for Leukemia.  Day 37 is here.  Serenity’s life was saved because people donated blood.  I have a lot of guilt about that – I have MAJOR needle-phobia and have always avoided blood donation.  But as I watched Serenity bravely face getting poked …

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Jul 02

Leukemia: So cute it just might kill you.

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This is Day 37 of my baby, Serenity being diagnosed with and treated for Leukemia.  Day 36 is here. K, I admit that I’m probably, maybe a teeny little bit biased here – but I think these are super cute pictures of Serenity (probably not quite as cute as your kid though ).  I’m calling …

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