Hi again everyone! You probably noticed I'm not blogging on LiveJournal anymore. Actually I haven't done much blogging at all in the past couple of months. Well I'm back! But now I'm on my new website; in a move many of you will find obvious, past-due, or perhaps just annoying, I've registered my *legal* name for my new website. Please update ( Read more... )

So I am sans home-computer for the moment as I just finally sent it in for repairs after getting completely fed up with my Sharp "desktop replacement" laptop's jet-engine db-level processor fan sounds and its constant overheating and rebooting whenever it felt like it. UPS came and picked it up on Saturday and is taking it to Florida where ( Read more... )

On April 14th of this year, Natalie pointed out I had linked backwards to April 14th of the previous year on my journal, but I got distracted and forgot to do that. So here I go: Last year today (and four days ago)One difference this year is that I'm not watching reality TV as much, although I admit to having seen most of the VH1 "Strange Love" ( ( Read more... )

So now that Chase owns Bank One, check out this interesting overdraft policy. Lets say as a matter of academic interest you have $100 in your account:

balance: $100.00

Lets say you make 10 purchases with your debit card that day. The first 9 purchases are for $1.00 items:

debit: -$1.00 x 9 = $9.00
balance: $91.00The last purchase is for $101. ( Read more... )

Finally a new player on the block challenges Nigeria's monopoly:
From: DR FRANK JIM

The Auditor/Head
of Department
Bank of Scotland,
United Kingdom.

Dear Partner,

In order to transfer out

Regardless of whether or not I wind up ever switching to Mac, specifically, I love the stories surrounding Apple and was very pleasantly surprised to find a really nice website dedicated to such stories, created by Andy Hertzfeld and some other old Mac engineers, entitled Folk Lore dot org. Pretty cool ( Read more... )

So I've been listening a lot to the mp3s available on IT Conversations dot com and the content is really great and interesting, but every now and then when I hit a problem at work which requires extra concentration I need to take the headphones off or I get distracted by what the speakers are saying ( Read more... )

I have decided that in my list of goals for my next job, at the top of the list is that I will not be required to sit at Microsoft-based workstation. I'll go with Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Java OS, even Mac OSX. Just no more Windows ( Read more... )

I am now focusing 100% of my available energies (re: time spent when not at work) on my job search. So unfortunately I wont be working on Juju or anything else. I've been actively/casually looking for a better job since around December, and while I've found some interesting options, nothing has really clicked yet-- therefore I've decided to ( Read more... )

I'm a sucker for simple and compelling. Here's a piece of software for managing recurring tasks (things like exercising or going to the farmer's market or whatever.) The tool is called Sciral Consistency.

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