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Please come visit. I have moved on to a prettier place.

Last Thursday I was given one day’s notice at the temp job where I had been working for six months. Since my assignment was originally supposed to be over last December, I can’t really complain ( Read more... )

Fellow Bloggers, you have until midnight tonight to submit a post to the latest BestOfMe Sympnony, which will be held at Rocket Jones. You can also submit a post from someone else's blog if you prefer.

Francis Wheen has written a short piece on the Top Ten Modern Delusions that is well worth perusal, although I don’t agree with him entirely. Here is his list ( Read more... )

From the Haaretz Daily ( Read more... )

For those of us ordinary folks who are not part of any privileged elite, the secret of maintaining sanity in the modern world is really fairly simple. It is a matter of balance. Equilibrium ( Read more... )

If you link to me, email me at gclester@excite .com and I will link back to almost any blog (no nudity, hate, illegality though), whether you agree with my views or not. However, you must let me know that you have linked because I do not track my traffic.

My Limericks . . . Blog of Death . . . Stephen Pollard . . . Doggerel ( Read more... )

Here’s an interesting story from New Scientist about an IT consultant’s one-man war against online pedophiles. He’s developed a program called ChatNannies. It creates spin-off applications called nanniebots, which pose as children initiating chatroom conversations. The nanniebots analyze responses from other chatroom participants and report ( Read more... )

Want some free exposure for your blog? Enter one of your favorite posts in the 16th Bestofme Symphony at Practical Penumbra.

Need a good laugh? The Emily Chesley Reading Circle is one of the best humor sites I’ve found. Start with the Letters of Annoyance section.

Or, if you prefer visual humor, check out these cartoons from Cleft Cartoons. ( Read more... )

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