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[break in silence here] so, i'm doing my usual morning work thing - leave the house, get coffee, drive through the park to the customer's place of business, park jeep out back under the overhang, walk around front to the door. *hey, what's...
a niece finally writes after long absence , expressing an "ailment" that has elements fairly common in this family. in the human family, really. hell, i'm going through much the same thing myself, for a period that has lasted years. there's...
i never even thought to expect this: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:00 UTC Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) ****** Signs of Voldemort's return emerge as Harry's (Daniel Radcliffe) friends (Rupert Grint, Emma Watson) help him prepare for a tournament...
a reminder to everyone who pays attention that when working i'm pretty tied into that mindset, and will generally let various personal comm streams go - email, blog, mail, phone, whatever. trying to get my diurnal cycle back into a mainstream match...
been taking the xo places lately: at the conference last weekend, xo made a tiny splash. self was overshadowed by the machine, and rightly so. the clip is from a youtube video someone cobbled together. well, ok, self's knee is lookin' good too...
... or movies. big "wtf?!" moment this evening: getting back from the conference today, i think how i will be early enough to kick back with a beer or three and catch the the third harry potter movie (prisoner of azkaban) that was advertised...
taxes done at about 10pm pacific time last night. so what's the irs mean by the 15th anyway ? given geography-free webfiling, anything this side of the international dateline should work. the thing about 1099 work is that on tax day my bank account...
craig writes : "... The basic premise of having an army is to defend your territory. ..." um, depends on who you are. perhaps that was the intent of those who founded this country, but armies are used for all sorts of things. also: ".....
spending some quality time with the xo lately: yumex ("yum install yumex", ~500kb) is a graphical yum front-end which is helpful digging through the repositories, already installed items, and available updates. still have to do something about...
so, y'know, i haven't done taxes, or even summarized cash flow from last year, and it's like one in the morning, so of course, being supremely rational, i decide it's time to install an http server on the olpc xo [1] . [2] your mission...
del.icio.us daily blog posting (an "experimental" feature since early 2005, or before) has been acting flaky lately; a couple other people have noticed too: 'daily blog posting' known issues? Daily del.icio.us links blog thingy busted...
.bqlist {margin-top: .5em;} something was itching at the back of my mind (no, i just got a haircut), something i was supposed to do in april... oh, that's right; i had signed up for a local .net "conference". gotta try and remember - april...
...in my aol communicator hacking. after changing all my aol type accounts to imap accounts as noted in the last post, i tried to add another non-aol account: wups - won't let you add any of those until at least one "valid" aol type account...
i was wondering what exactly aol meant by saying it was shutting off their communicator mail client . well, around midnight, it looked like this: [1] my pop3 accounts still look connected. and i know aol supports both pop3 and imap, not to mention their...
years ago, shortly after the first gulf war, it was very clear what was and was not to be done in such a situation, once the path had been chosen. it was very simple: let the generals do their jobs no half measures these two points stood out especially...
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