I neglected to report big news in the house. Evan’s two lower front teeth have made their appearance! So added to the bangs, crashes, cries, Wiggles, and other assorted morning noises we add, “slurp slurp OW!” and sometimes some less than muffled cursing that when the kids repeat at church or pre-school I’ll be blamed.
Lost Tidbits
tidbit – That’s a cool word!
It wouldn’t be a day without some reference to Lost. I found what claims to be the transcriptions of the whispers! Pretty cool. This link surfaced in a review on Ray Camden’s site.
Amanda Congdon Naked
I’ve been encouraging people to check out Rocketboom and Wednesday I posted The Right Way To Do A Video Blog. In the process I discovered Amanda Congdon has her own wikipedia entry. I also discovered this amusing post by Alec Muffett who analyzed his server logfiles to people visiting him looking for Amanda Congdon information with 29% of them trying to find her naked.
So that’s 192 people searching for information about Ms Congdon, 29% of whom are searching along with the word “naked”.
Alec offers these words:
Mmm. Grow up, you pitiful nerds.
Learn to appreciate people for what they are and what they do.
And if you are new to Rocketboom, I highly recommend the Sept 27, 2005 show.
The Irony in America
We all know that if you need money and go to a bank that you’ll be laughted away. That’s why the working poor can’t get consolidation loans or emergency loans during tough times. Only people with money can get money which isn’t right.
The same thing applies to health care. Poor people can’t get dental care. Poor people can’t get medications when needed. Let’s say a poor person was feeling down because their situation had grown worse and they were concerned that they may not be able to feed their family. They get depressed which affects their job performance and they bring home less money making it more difficult to feed the family. Now, perhaps Prozac or Zoloft or something would help. But the poor person doesn’t have insurance and has to choose between going to the doctor and feeding the family. Of course, then there is the huge outlay of cash for the drugs.
So while the weathly can get Vicodin for “headaches” and recreation, the poor can’t get necessary medicines. I don’t know the fix but something needs to change.
View your news regionally
A new way to view news. Of course, I still prefer Google News.
ZZZzzzs
I hate sleep. No that’s not true. I love sleep but I don’t deserve it.
Why yes Virginia. I am a moron!
I troubleshoot my computer for 4 hours today trying to figure out what virus, adware or driver problem was screwing up my mouse when all the while my wacom pen had rolled onto my writing tablet!
High blood pressure? Let your spouse help!
“…people who had abstained from sex had the highest blood pressure response to stress” so sex does reduce stress!
“The effects are not attributable simply to the short-term relief afforded by orgasm but rather, endure for at least a week,â€
Which in no way implies that it should only be a once a week activity.
Shoot the programmer!
Programmers that make mouse dependent applications (ie. no keyboard shortcuts) should be shot.
Why me?!
The day was starting off so well (technically..personally it could improve greatly) and then wham! Just to kill productivity, my mouse flips out and only works in a small portion of my screen. Try to go outside of that and the pointer jumps back to the top of the screen. I reboot and at the WindowsXP user login screen it does the same thing. Guess my day is going to be wasted working on my dev box. At least it works in safe mode so I know its not a hardware issue.
Why does everything have to be such an uphill battle?
A win for the good guys! Google makes legal tender.
Good news for Google, Archive.org and the free world! Google cache is legal!
Google results and movie tickets!
Excellent list of Portable USB software
For people that work between multiple computers (say a home office and a corporate office) or want the security of leaving less of a footprint on a computer, you can install a variety of software packages on a USB drive. Great list!
The Fog
The game of life is hard to play
I’m going to lose it anyway
The losing card I’ll someday lay
So this is all I have to say
The only way to win is cheat
And lay it down before I’m beat
And to another give a seat
For that’s the only painless feat
What do you use for time tracking?
I have used Quickbooks Pro’s timer before but mostly I use Allnetic’s Timetracker. I would prefer something decent for my PDA (palmos) but I have strayed from carrying it around and the last time I looked the available time trackers were inadequate. I need something I can wear on my wrist that autosyncs with the nearest computer via bluetooth. That way I can bounce from computer to computer and enter time tracking data from the keyboard (but the device still needs to accept entry from the wrist).
Of Grasshoppers
Student: I want to be doing something else.
Master: Try truly enjoying what you are doing and there will be nothing else.
