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Stretching the blog muscle

So a friend and I are going to start a group blog, which hopefully will allow us to both gain experience blogging and knowledge about sharing ideas with people we don't know. The blog is going to focus on software, because we share some of the same interests about best practices, user experience, design philosophies, etc. I'll post here when we get it setup and going, so that the few (if any) that read this blog, can find me --unless you already follow me on Twitter .

Accidents happen...

Accidents, car accidents in particular, are very common. But unless you're in it, you really don't care or become affected by them. Today, on my way home from work, I was about half-a-mile from my front door, and out of nowhere a car runs in front of me at the intersection and although I slam on the brakes I hit the car. I was going north on Custer Road, and the other car was going east on El Dorado Road, but the light was green for me, as 5 or 6 other cars in front of me had already gone through the intersection, so of course I'm unsuspecting of any person at this point thinking of running the red light. It was around 6:30pm CST, and by then it was already dark, since we just switched DST, so the street lights are pretty easy to see and to notice what color they are. So what the heck happened? After the impact, I scream in frustration, look around and try to turn my car off, but it is already off, but I am unable to pull the key out. I finally get out of the car, and sev...