Archives for August 2002

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117 words, 2 comments August 2, 2002 8:25am

Some quick links to recent articles I found useful:The "crime wave" against girlsKathleen Harris screws up. Uh, again. Ah, Florida!Nevada's marijuana ...

[Untitled #405]

88 words, no comments August 2, 2002 12:35pm

I love my newly downloaded HTML editor. I'm sure I'm not using most of its features, but then I usually scoff at the need for such things. Syntax highlighting, ...

[Untitled #406]

81 words, no comments August 2, 2002 1:40pm

Or maybe I'm just in a happy mood today because I'm working from home. Which means that not only do I have the aforementioned HTML editor, but it's running ...

[Untitled #407]

47 words, no comments August 3, 2002 9:30am

Okay, no more dancing to "Bombs Over Baghdad" (MP3 format) at parties. That stuff's way too aerobic for me. I get dehydrated. Dang!

[Untitled #408]

97 words, no comments August 5, 2002 10:50pm

As I was reading a New York Times article on new discoveries in anthropology (registration required) (summary: they found some skulls; bickering ensues), ...

[Untitled #409]

142 words, no comments August 5, 2002 11:07pm

I also derived a few chuckles from this Times article on China vs. Taiwan's president Chen (registration required). The whole scenario over there is just ...

[Untitled #410]

52 words, no comments August 6, 2002 11:29am

Stupid PGE and their almost-weekly power glitches made me lose this screenshot the first time around, but fortunately, the ad servers at The New York ...

from the mouths of tots

342 words, no comments August 6, 2002 11:12pm

Talk at work today turned to odd quotes from co-worker Sue's three-year-old son (no I haven't gone soft - this stuff is genuinely humorous ... to ...

[Untitled #411]

77 words, no comments August 7, 2002 1:30am

Man, there's a lot of news out there. And there's even more non-news out there to read on the web. Put together, there's a lot of stuff out there to ...

a message from the mgmt.

416 words, no comments August 8, 2002 11:41pm

I feel compelled to note that the relative paucity of recent postings is not completely unwarranted. Indeed, I have been working on, or at the ...

[Untitled #413]

188 words, no comments August 11, 2002 11:49am

Huzzah for cable access! There we were, looking for something to watch while the potato kugel was cooking. And we happened upon a show that involved ...

[Untitled #414]

95 words, no comments August 12, 2002 9:05am

Tucked away in this article on Starbucks drink sizes is a rather interesting factoid: 7-11 is considering producing an eighty (80!) ounce cold beverage ...

[Untitled #415]

73 words, no comments August 12, 2002 2:25pm

I got called a "paragon of men" today because I was reheating my homemade quiche in the microwave. Actually, it probably was less the microwaving and ...

[Untitled #416]

71 words, no comments August 12, 2002 3:59pm

I was searching for a particular ColdFusion function today, and when I found it, I was so relieved to know that it existed that I exclaimed, "Aha!" I ...

summer in the city

616 words, 5 comments August 15, 2002 3:38am

"Man it's hot. It's like Africa hot. Tarzan couldn't take this kind of hot." -Private Epstein, Biloxi Blues I'm sitting in the office wearing ...

[Untitled #417]

119 words, no comments August 18, 2002 11:30am

While looking for food at a grocery store whose name shall remain, um, nameless, I saw a sign advertising their latest invention: frushi. Which is, as ...

[Untitled #418]

64 words, no comments August 19, 2002 11:56am

For lunch, I'm having that most special of meals, the "eat whatever is taking up space in the fridge because I need more room to store what I just bought" ...

the spider and the moth

650 words, 1 comment August 23, 2002 7:40pm

There's a spider living on a web outside our kitchen window. I've been watching him for several months now. To my knowledge, the spider hasn't ...

newszilla

792 words, 8 comments August 23, 2002 8:40pm

Have I mentioned how much I love Mozilla, my current web browser of choice? It's not just that it's highly standards compliant, has yet to crash ...

[Untitled #419]

54 words, no comments August 26, 2002 12:45pm

Long time, no type, hm? Yeah, I've been rather busy with freelance work lately. Add to that that I still haven't set up Cock-a-hoop to automate entering ...

[Untitled #420]

30 words, 1 comment August 28, 2002 9:58am

Gee, I have so many friends over in Nigeria and Zimbabwe. It's too bad I can't help them out with their money problems.

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