Thursdays. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. It’s been one of those weeks thus far – my team leader was out sick all of Monday and Tuesday, which put me in the “acting team leader” hotseat. I don’t do much other than walk past her desk to check the call-monitoring display to see if anyone needs a reminder to go on break or to lunch in order to adhere more closely to their schedule. It’s a benign way of checking up on people, but soulless and somewhat degrading to have your entire worklife revolve around your ability to…
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One of the stated purposes (purpoi?) of this blog is that it’s a collection of random-access memories – a purpose that’s been sadly neglected of late. Howerver, I’ve got some doozies that came back to me all in a rush, because they’re topical, today being what it is (or was, by now). In the bad old pre-David days, when I was still living the carefree, (bored) bachelorette (lonely) (anti-social) life in Seattle, I used to go out occasionally for holidays like St Patrick’s Day. There are a lot of Irish bars in Seattle, and I lived within walking distance of…
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Something tells me I might need to have quick access to some of these feeds from The Feed Room I spent a lot of time looking at raw feeds (not live) there during the first couple of weeks of the war. There’s been a lot of breaking news in the last few days, and I don’t have good access to news at work unless I walk into the break room where the TV lives. On the other hand, I watched the fall of several statues in Baghdad “live” right here on this computer at work, and also watched a news…
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Yeah, it’s Green Day in America, as in “wearin’ o’ the.” The resident Irish lass on the team, who has red hair and has an Irish surname AND maiden name (and was married at Old St Pat’s, a Chicago landmark) is wearing o’ the green. Various people who aren’t Irish are a wearin’ o’ the green. Since we’re at work, nobody has started in on the pukin’ o’ the green, but it’s early yet.
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The Reviews: BostonHerald.com – the Edge: Time trials: CBS’ legal drama ‘Century City’ avoids future shlock Welcome to Dullsville, er, Century City So the reviews are mixed, but David and I enjoyed it. It gets the geek crowd and the Law & Order crowd on one sofa… And hey! In the “geriatric boy band” subplot, they killed Martouf again, those bastards! At least he got to play a hot looking 72-year-old. But on the other hand, they got freakin’ Anthony Zerbe to bust a few moves at Martouf’s funeral. Now that was funny. He looked like he was having a…
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Okay, why do I as a non-technogeek (I am merely the moll or sheila to a technogeek) think this is way damn cool: Testing Begins & More Info about 3.0 03.16.2004 We’re taking our first steps towards the release of Movable Type 3.0. The pre-beta version has just finished its initial two rounds of alpha testing and we’re now opening the testing to a larger audience (we’ve picked 300 random addresses from those who applied and will be adding more as time progresses). The testing that we’re conducting will not only help ensure a stable final release but will also…
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Okay, so Accordion Guy made me do it. BlogPolling Voting System seems simple enough, but for a doofus like me? Actually, I’ve been asking David to set up polls for me, but it was pretty far down on the list of to-dos around here recently. So this may be the way for me to go, since I got good results from using both Blogrolling and Bloglines. Yep – that’s the Amerkin way – outsource it! Let’s give it a shot… Well, I’ve got the right style elements working, but the radio buttons don’t show up once they’ve been clicked. Hmm.…
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From Yahoo News: W.House Calls on Kerry to Reveal Names of Leaders I have to admit (gah!) that they have a point. It does sound a little too much like “the lurkers support me in email.”
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A resort for “Family Friendly America” Casino- and vice-free resort fun for Mom, Dad, and all the kids (other kinds of families need not apply) Orrin Hatch’s American Dream. Unconstitutional and/or against the law, in Orrin’s Perfected America: Abortion Equal Opportunity race quotas Flag burning no longer protected free speech Constitutional: States would have the right to refuse to acknowledge same-sex marriage School prayer Foreign-born US Presidents (the “Ahnold Amendment”) Balanced budget – okay, but at what cost to critical social services? Even among conservatives, Senator Hatch has the reputation of a constitutional gadfly, repeatedly pounding away at his pet…
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Obesity too widespread to go without attention Probably a good thing that there’s no accompanying picture. If there had been, this might have ended up on Leno.