Archives for August 2002

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

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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, ...

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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 ...

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

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

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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 ...

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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

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 ...

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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.

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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

"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 ...

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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 ...

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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

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

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 ...

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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 ...

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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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