Entries from March 2008The Posts You Asked For

I’m not sure what’s more disturbing. The fact that someone, somewhere, thought that a tapestry (!) showing David Tyree’s Super Bowl catch would be a good idea, or the fact that it’s backordered until May 10.

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The Dave Matthews Band™ just sent me a deck of cards and a short CD. Go figure.

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Miranda says peppermint oil will solve my ant problem. We shall see — if I can find it.

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Isn’t it amazing how Ben Stein went from a symbol of intelligence to one of utter stupidity?

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Test post from Post2Blog.
Just seeing if this works at all. :)

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I’ve said it over and over — ethanol is bad. It’s a lousy substitute for gasoline, and it’s nowhere near as green as people think. In fact, making it does more damage to the environment than not making it.
Slowly but surely people are catching on, as grain prices skyrocket, rainforests are destroyed, and carbon is [...]

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Palestinian students protest Israel’s closing of their ’schools,’ (which are linked to Hamas and terrorism).

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Muslims upset at being portrayed as violent crazies by the movie “Fitna” have threatened the lives of the staff of LiveLeak, a video-sharing site, forcing the site to remove the film. (It’s still available on YouTube.)
Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the [...]

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I am downloading the latest OpenOffice using Bittorrent. Glad I don’t have Comcast now.

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My job for Computerworld is to write keywords and determine subjects for blog posts.
It’s usually easy, until I come across one that begins like this:
The world’s first ACP tool for LTE Capesso™ LTE is the world’s first automatic cell planning tool for LTE.

Then I gotta start looking things up. :)

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I’ve been dealing with National City Mortgage, and the level of utter stupidity over there astounds me. I gotta share this.
We own a house in Roanoke. We moved to Richmond. Ergo, until we sell the house we’re paying mortgage and rent. It’s possible now, but it’s a stretch for us until my freelancing gets off [...]

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There’s something… cleansing about doing a full backup.

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Could be.

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I’m writing these twits

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in order to

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force off my home page

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the long unbroken post

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I put up the other day.

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All right, so here’s the deal. Do I need to explain that China is the bad guy? Do we have to remind people of Tiananmen Square? Or of what’s happening in Tibet? Or of slave wages? Or… well, you know the deal.
And yet, with the kind of logic only the International Olympic Committee can come [...]

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