I really don't mean to use my friends as Wikipedia, but this did come up: for those military types who use the NATO phonetic alphabet on a regular basis, how do you designate a difference in case? I've been adding "cap" in front of the letter, so "charlie" is "c", "cap charlie" is "C" - but that's purely my own invention and I'm likely alone in ( Read more... )

Okay, I know that I've said before that I'm looking to position The Exchange, my company, as something not-generic...something that will stand out amongst the crowd of small IT consultancies out there, which is the reason I named it as I did rather than the more usual CompServTecNet or a similar name. Well, I've kind of caved. Dig this, the ( Read more... )

There's a coffee shop downstairs that I like to frequent. The coffee's good, they have organic there, and it's not one of the national chains (that I know of, unless someone else has heard of Olympic). There are a number of women who work there who are obviously from the same place; they all look and dress similarly...but what made me curious was ( Read more... )

Well, so far, so good as far as the meds are concerned, though I haven't had the chance to find out what my BP is now, and I did get a bit light-headed after having a bheer last night (it eventually passed and I went to bed...if I can't have bheer while on this stuff, I am going to be one royally pissed Scooter). And DW did make an appointment for ( Read more... )

I enjoy reading bOINGbOING from time to time, but they do have a tendency to bias, such as lampooning everything having to do with religion while listing Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion as a "good documentary". It's fine by me, because I don't mind and indeed seek out opinions different than my own on a fairly regular basis...indeed, as a Green ( Read more... )

Chatting on the Weasel Patrol recently with two friends, one Dane and one Canadian, I realized that I seem to be developing my own nationality. That might be a bit too grandiose...perhaps it's just a set of personal eccentricities, or a "regionalism of one" or something. The essence is that most of the things that people would ordinarily ( Read more... )