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(This entry is written as if everyone reading it is an American citizen, for ease of phrasing. Apologies to those...
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20 discs
Last week, stressed one night and unable to focus on work, I decided to decompress by shopping. Specifically, I decided...
Malaprops (words easily confused #3)
More words easily confused: rein and reign. I see these confused so often that I've sometimes gotten confused about them...
Rochambeau
Office Depot or Office Max or one of those places has a billboard campaign where they show pictures of various...
Toyota goes hybrid
I ought to be reading subs, or editing, or sleeping, or some combination of those. But instead I went looking...
More on spam
Yet another response to that newsletter includes this presumably unintentionally funny bit: If you do not wish to shut down...
Net-savvy quiz
You receive an obnoxious spam that was sent to a single address, newsletter@foo.com (not its real address). It's from newsletter-admin@foo.com....
Salsa sauce
We have new vending machines at work that feature various frozen meals. One of them says on the box: "chicken...
PSA: No backups at Pair
Anyone who has an account hosted at Pair.com, be warned: they do make backups, but they won't restore your data...
Not my day
So we had our weekly SH fiction-editor meeting tonight, and I went into the database to make a small update...
How to blog
An interesting article at A List Apart called "10 Tips on Writing the Living Web"—basically a how-to-blog piece. Those of...
That kind of day
On Monday I went to the dentist and had a cavity filled—this is the one they were going to deal...