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Kagen turned 4 years old today.   We started out waking up and having some donut holes with breakfast.   We then brought Kagen and Beck to school.   We treated Kagen’s class to Pizza for lunch.  Kagen got to walk down to the local cafe and bought a Pizza for the class.  Kagen also got to be the Leader on their walk.   Lorraine picked up Kagen and Beck a little early and brought them to visit Daddy at work.   I got to show them where I work and spend my days.   When I got home Kagen got to open his presents and have dinner.  Kagen requested Shrimp Cocktail and ceasar salad for his birthday dinner.    Kagen is having a birthday party Saturday with a few friends from school coming over.

Special dress code: Drinkers leave the G&T-smelling bar in their special protective gear

Adults are often reminded to drink responsibly but customers entering a new cocktail bar where they are literally enveloped in a mist of alcohol are warned to breathe responsibly.

Just 40 minutes inside the venue – which delivers an intoxicating vapour of gin and tonic – will leave you feeling slightly merry.

Punters are also advised to don special protective suits as they enter the walk-in cocktail to avoid going home smelling like a brewery.

To complement the whiff of G&T the bar is decorated with giant limes and massive straws to make visitors feel as if they are inside the drink.

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RAID

RAID: It’s not just for Warcraft nerds anymore. If you’ve got a ton of music, photos and video and you don’t know about RAID hard-drive arrays yet, read this—or wave your precious media files buh-bye.

RAID sounds like vaguely scary, like something you to do a French village if you’re a Viking or what you do on a Saturday night if you’re a lonely, sad person, but really it just stands for redundant array of independent disks. Which really just means a bundle of hard drives acting like one superharddrive. There are a few of different kinds of RAID configurations and they do different things—one kind gives you crazyfast performance, another makes your storage safer than a single hard drive acting alone via redundancy.

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