Sorry for the vacation, fans. They happen. Anyway, back to it. There's a new novel making the rounds of the Indian literary cirlces called One Night @ The Call Centre about life at a tech support call center in India. It's about love and business in the nightly life of a call center. They stay up all night to support dumb Americans in their tech ( Read more... )

Been a while since an update, but the most important woman I know *cough*theredsqrl*cough* told me I need an update, so here we go ( Read more... )

This is for rydain. Yes, doitalone, this is even worse than your tech support hell. This is new levels in tech support hell. We, the average end user of any given technology, are sued to tech support rolling their eyes at us. Me, the more than average Luddite who knows enough tech to get into trouble, take their half-sneers and scripted responses in stride. ( Read more... )

First off, the irony of this post is that I first attempted to do this via phone post, but it didn't work. The right settings weren't set up for my cell phone, so I'm posting this a few hours late. My problem was that I didn't have the right technology to make this happen. I didn't jump through all the right hoops and I didn't have complete and ( Read more... )

Well, tonight was the Super Bowl/Oscar Night of DC. There was the greeting/red carpet area of the Capitol, people were talking about who was doing what and someone even got arrested. Yes, this was the State of the Union. Just a few hours before, Sam Alito was confirmed as the 110th Justice of the Supreme Court, so he was there with most of the ( Read more... )

A word of caution, this blog may have to come down soon. How? Well, despite all I say, my real name is not in fact Midnight Ranter. I'm sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but it's true. Therefore, if anything in this blog, or anyone on line really, annoys any one of you out there, you report it to the police as illegal. Yes, according to this lovely ( Read more... )

In my dumb class, someone posted this in the class web forum:
In response to certain individual who claimed our country was built on seperation of church and state, I will clear the record. Our country was not founded on seperation of church and state. It was an invention of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court took a letter written by Thomas ( Read more... )

This item is stolen from reunion (heh, two in a row) but it's a really good bit. There's a school in New Jersey that is banning their students from keeping blogs. Specifically, Pope John XXIII Regional High School in Sparta, New Jersey is telling students, for safety concerns, they are not allowed to keep online jounrals that talk about school or their ( Read more... )

After Tuesday's sucessful launch, things were looking good for NASA. They were making a comeback from the Columbia disaster in 2003. That was until Wednesday when NASA decided to ground the fleet of shuttles after some debris from the shuttle lifting off was spotted. Yeah, NASA is so afraid of anything else going wrong, nothing of theirs is going ( Read more... )

Many of you out there use the sweetner Splenda made by Johnson and Johnson, among others. It is touted as being made from real sugar and therefore better than other sweetners, such as Equal or Sweet n' Low. "Made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar" so the ads wizard would have us all believe. This much is true; it is partially made from sugar. ( Read more... )