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Future Post January 30, 2006 10:00 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life
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Does this post show before its time stamp?

Post made at 6:00am.

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The frustrating part of working from home – addendum January 30, 2006 9:44 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life
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Concerning my earlier post: But I love it! I take on this stressful, risky lifestyle not for riches of money but for the riches of time well spent with the children. It means I work late at night and get up early and work on the weekends but I get quality time with the kids that I love. The frustrating part is when exhaustion, procrastination, self-indulgence, or lack of focus cause me to miss some of those late night or weekend hours.

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The frustrating part of working from home January 30, 2006 8:03 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life
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I’ve hit that frustrating part of the day. I’m trying desperately to please a client and am literally a few lines of code away from accomplishing it but the needs of the dog and of the toddler won’t let me finish so I’ll receive a scathing phone call while I’m driving her to school. My self-esteem will take another hit. I can’t even finish this paragraph. I’m being paged to the toddler’s aid.

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House of Reps Banned from Wikipedia January 30, 2006 7:26 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Politics, Touchy Subjects, United States
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Looks like the House overstepped its bounds.

The staff of U.S. Rep Marty Meehan wiped out references to his broken term-limits pledge as well as information about his huge campaign war chest in an independent biography of the Lowell Democrat on [Wikipedia]…

Matt Vogel, Meehan’s chief of staff, said he authorized an intern in July to replace existing Wikipedia content with a staff-written biography of the lawmaker.

Looks like it becomes a question of ethics particularly considering that the logs show vandalic changes to other political profiles coming from the House ip addresses.

the sheer breadth of changes emanating from the House reflects an abuse of public time and equipment, said Stephen Potts, former director of the federal Office of Government Ethics, now chairman of the Ethics Resource Center.

When will integrity return to politics?

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GMail has POP3 January 30, 2006 6:47 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Software, Technology
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Have you ever wished you could check GMail in an email client instead of using a browser? GMail’s help center explains how you can set up Outlook Express, Outlook, Entourage, Eudora, Netscape Mail, Apple Mail, Mozilla, Thunderbird, and others.

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Revelry January 30, 2006 6:27 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life
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Time to wake the doughnuts.

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Of Grasshoppers January 30, 2006 5:46 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Of Grasshoppers, Philosophy
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Student: I want to feel good.
Master: Practice feeling good.

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