tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50999252011-06-13T22:42:38.931-04:00Jay Solo now blogs at Solojent.comJay Solohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04894355912048962320noreply@blogger.comBlogger12061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5099925.post-71803328152552842072011-04-10T16:27:00.002-04:002011-04-10T16:44:40.148-04:00

Man, it's been a long time since I updated! And why would I, after moving on to bigger and better blogging, and then co-blogging, and, well...There was the blog that directly followed this, then there was Accidental Verbosity with Deb, which became Blogblivion, though oddly I never liked that as much, despite the clever coinage. Then we separated, except we still share a place, along with our

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Where Are They Now?It's long past time for an update.This was my original blog, and if you have landed here on the main page, you might well find interesting content if you poke around through the archives.In fairly short order, I moved Jay Solo's Verbosity to regular hosting, using pMachine to run it. Again, that remains if you'd like to explore the archives.I also hosted the home page for

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A Moving Experience It's under construction still, but please go to http://www.elhide.com/solo/ for future posts, and adjust your links accordingly. Thanks! Update: Of all the posts to fail to publish, and have me not realize it until almost three hours later, it had to be this one! Let's see if it goes this time.

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A Long Expected Interview Maripat has finally gotten around to posting the widely anticipated, almost non-fictional interview with Lori over at Right We Are!

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10,000 Watch Well, my 1/3 Blogiversary is the 25th, 6 days from now. I'm approaching 10,000 on the meter, so I should hit 10,000 by or right at the 4 month mark. That's pretty cool. My only concern with possibly falling short is traffic has plunged this week; almost to half its previous levels. On the other hand, moving out to add a boost. If I can get the new site to load reliably.

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Elhide Blues Well, today my new site still is having speed issues. At this point, meaning it won't load at all, even with the direct URL including weblog.php at the end. Except if I hit www.elhide.com, in which case the redirector page that currently brings you to Blogspot comes up instantly, followed by the Blogspot page coming up instantly. Doh! Something isn't right. I made no changes

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X2 I went to see X2 for the second time, so the nephew could see. I used a two year old free pass, which I'd not used because I always go to matinees, and the freebie is best used to avoid paying full price. It was just as good the second time! The FX that hint about the Phoenix were more obvious this time, knowing about it and already knowing what happened. I can't wait for the next one.

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How Rude I thought I might take a little while tonight to make the changeover, even though I am not really ready. Seeing how I've already been announced, so I could have the honor of the number 100 spot in the official defectors list. Speaking of which, the URL to the defectors list no longer goes right to it, but to the top of the archive page it's on; then there's much scrolling involved.

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Frustration Not being able to blog much. Not being able to tweak and deploy the new digs. I have a funeral in the morning. Afterward I have to pick up my nephew, go to the office, and have a very busy afternoon and evening doing work that needs to be done. Then the nephew and I are going to see X-Men 2, so I'll be home late and probably just go to bed or be online minimally at this time

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9000 And the 9000th hit is... Referred by A Gaggle of Girls (And Some Guys Who Fill In During Vacations). On Pacific Time, at 4:18:51 PM to be exact. With ISP of Pacbell. Using Netscape 5.0 on Windows 98. Ith, izzat you?

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A Grin for the Den! (Attention Mapchic et al) Spread the word! Check out this hosting option as a Blogspot alternative. It's a wonderful thing, and slightly lower cost even than some of the other non-free options. Plus they'll setup MT or pMachine for you free, which helps give Dean a rest after the fifty MT sites - mostly BlogSplat refugees - he will have setup. Imagine:

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Driving Way to go Jaboobie! I could easily have written this list of driving tips myself. Well done. Someone did item 10 to me today and I was all ready at that point to get back to the office and blog about it. And about my observation that some people don't drive "wrong" per se, but have a "rhythm" to their driving that's off from that of other people. Or off from mine, anyway. You know

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Wow! I've just been linked twice by Joe Katzman over at Winds of Change. One is the article I linked to about the possibility of a low grade depression that could last many years. I consider it a real if avoidable possibility, and found the analysis interesting. The other is a nudge to get off Blogspot. Heh. I am working on it. My basic layout is largely finished at a temporary, ridiculous

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Rand Simberg At His Finest Brilliant post by Rand Simberg on why it was a mistake for the Founders not to make clearer that the First Amendment was a collective right like the Second. Heh.

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Funny E-Mail You may well have seen this before. I have, a couple times before, and found it most amusing and, sadly, recognizable... Subject A.A.A.D.D. I find comfort in knowing that I'm not alone.... Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it manifests: I decided to wash my car. As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is

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Good Night Well folks, I'm beat. I've been at the office waaaay too long and am leaving a couple hours later than intended. I am going home and probably right to bed without blogging. Or if I can't sleep, I'll work on the new site, moving my FrontPage design mockup to the real thing. Considering I almost ran off the road going less than a mile to Wendy's a few hours ago, as a direct result

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Speaking of movies... Bend It Like Beckham still hasn't come to any sufficiently local theaters for me to go to it. Yet they're advertising it on TV. Enough for a very light viewer to have noticed. Strange. Why advertise and then make it hard to see?

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Woooosh! Film release time is almost like "Internet Time" these days. I got a voicemail from my sister. My nephew really really really wanted to see X-Men 2, but they'd not gotten around to going. Now that it's time, they find it's playing in one theater at one time in the area. That time is 9:50 PM. Too late for her. So the proposal is that I take him to it and then he can stay at my

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Geek Test My nephew e-mailed me the URL for this Geek Test. He scored 21.69625% - Geek, which is fairly impressive for 14 years old. I scored 36.09467% - Major Geek. Heh.

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Hey, Where'd The Gloom Go What's up with this! I check Weather Underground to see what the upcoming weather will be, since I'd not been paying attention. Five days out of the upcoming seven are supposed to be mostly sunny or only partly cloudy. Whoa! Only one day and one night feature a chance of rain. Each day falls somewhere in the 70-80° range. What happened? The weather deities

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American Realpolitik In case you've missed seeing this elsewhere, American Realpolitik needs help. Way more than Andrew Sullivan. Now I feel bad, because perhaps a week ago I was looking at the cartoons on their site and thought "I wonder if they have permission to use these or if someone might be bothered by it." That happens to me way too often; I imagine something bad and then it happens.

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The Bankruptcy of America This is a fascinatingly scary economic analysis. Link via Two--Four.

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Defector List I noticed today that Glenn has a mini-list of BlogSpot defectors going, so I sent him a reminder of the Wizbang running list of defectors, which is more effective if it gets well publicized.

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Father's Day Story Scott Chaffin has a wonderful story about his late father, in honor of Father's Day. We have in common go-getter fathers who had polio and didn't let that stop them.

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Deflation This is an excellent article on deflation and the potential for a low grade depression. It's long, so be prepared to spend some real time reading it. It's interesting and informative enough that I consider it worth the time. Link via the aforementioned Mises Blog

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View Solo is Broken Over at the Mises Econonomics Blog, it's cool of them to have a link on every post to "View Solo." They like me, I guess. Except they don't work! None of the View Solo links actually take you to my blog? Sheesh, what's up with that? Very disappointing, I must say. Well, broken, false advertising, or whatever the reason for their failure to view Solo with the "misleading

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Blasting Blogger It appears that Blaster's Blog has completed the move to MT, as of this weekend.

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And Venus Is Her Name This is a nice picture of Venus from a gravity assist flyby. Plus, it's spring in Neptune. Via Matt Scofield.

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Just For The Record... I hate the fuzzy toilet seat covers that make the seat slam back down by itself!

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Great Rat Race - The Droppage Just an observation that something I predicted has happened in a noticable way. Some of the links from the race were spurious post links, which inevitably would scroll off the main page of the blog on which they appeared. Thus Right We Are! and I could expect, even if we remain mammals, to see a big drop. Sure enough, overnight we both fell. I went from 158 to

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Roman Holiday What a great movie! Had I been the right age at the time that came out, I would have been totally smitten with Audrey Hepburn. Of course, she was also good in Breakfast At Tiffany's. Funny thing about that is Holly Golightly made me think of girls I've known. Until just a few years ago, both of those movies were in the dismayed "you've never seen that!?" category for me. Sad,

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Iran Happenings MommaBear is following the Iran news closely, and points out this site as a great source for regular updates. And as she notes, Iranian Girl is a place to watch too.

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EU vs. US Constitutions Weekend Pundit, always worthy in the first place, is really on a roll this weekend. Appropriately enough. Go there for an excellent summation of our constitution and comparison with what they're attempting to cram down people's throatsadopt in Europe.

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Nukes to Pluto I don't know about nuking the moon, but Stryker has an excellent post about a new nuclear power unit for missions to the outer planets.

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Music and Memories Weekend Pundit joins the chorus and chimes in about music and the memory associations it triggers.

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Gratuitous Niece Picture This is my artistic niece and a cat she used to have.

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Tiger Reviews This is a cool thing to have done. Tiger reviewed in detail every entry in the Showcase for last week. Ah, and now I see he's done it again! Cool.

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Poliblegger Poliblogger needs our help! It's that 4 month blogiversary/get a certain number of hits/get mammalized thing going on. Sound familiar? So consider linking to this purty, nifty blog, and visit there early and often in the next day. Only 103 visits to go, to make 10,000. Only something like 14 needed to make mammal, and this only needs to be temporary. You're free to stop linking

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Flag Day Mapchic has an awesome Flag Day post over at Geographica. Chart a path on over there to read it.

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Ballad of Paul Krugman Viking Pundit, on June 13, has a song for Krugman. It's most amusing, quite well done.

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Ads I usually don't even look twice at ads on web sites, never mind click through. However, in an example of how to be appealing, Dogpile had the cutest ad on Site Meter today, in the right column. It was their mascot dog, on top of a pile of assorted other dogs, with, if you looked, some funny looks on their faces. Very funny, appealing ad. Nice job, marketing people! So I clicked through,

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Spike I missed the boat on this, as it was over a week ago, but this post on Spike is a riot.

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And Another One Gone, And Another One Gone... Dr. Frank has moved of of the evil BlogSplat.

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Happy Birthday It's Jim Treacher's birthday today!

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Catching Up Well, it doesn't always happen, but I seem to have caught up on sleep! Nine hours, with one quick break after the first six. I was having some of the most bizarre dreams ever, which if I remembered coherently and they made sense, I would describe. Imagine, though, visiting a union/mob office and taking all their Playboys, then having to get down to the floor and crawl out of the

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I Must Be Crazy Those of you following along at home will recall that I woke up at 6:30 AM and spent pretty much the entire day marginally functional and needing sleep. So here it is, 2:43 AM, and I haven't been to sleep yet. Instead I've been making my new blog look like the previously mentioned test page, only more so. I learn fast enough that from a day ago to now there's a night and day

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Inland Tsunami Anyone? Conrad posts about the pending demise of the Three Gorges Dam. Yeah, that new one.

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Important Sunday School Lesson Read it right here, from an unexpected source, you might say.

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Just Messing Around... This is a quick, potential look I goofed around and came up with, for when the blog relocates. I set out first playing with colors for the text area. They ought to look familiar. Then I added the elephant. Then I started creating a "Jay Solo" graphic to go on the opposite side of the top of the page from the elephant. I ended up creating a good watermark graphic in

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Forking Up Big Time Here is a pictorial at Midwest Pundits on something not to do with forklifts. I have driven forklifts in a couple of different jobs, even became quite good at it. I can't imagine trying this

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Hulk Smash Tony writes an anticipatory post regarding the big green dude, coming to theaters Real Soon Now. I've always been a Hulk fan. I've even been known to have a Hulk-like temper, compared to my normally Bruce Banner-like amiability.

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Good Stuff Can be found in recent days over at Voice From the Commonwealth.

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Fridge as Trademark Dilution Using the word "fridge" in the previous post reminded me of when I used to subscribe to Writer's Digest years ago. The biggest source of ads in the magazine was companies reminding writers about their trademarks. There were some cool ads, strange as that may sound, and I thought it was a useful venue and means of getting the word out. For instance, tissues, unless

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Yawn This lack of sleep thing (see several posts ago when I started a series of short posts first thing in the morning) is not good. I was barely functional to drive; as if I'd been up a whole day and then tried driving home exhausted. I stopped for coffee, but that doesn't seem to be helping. At least not yet, and in my condition one medium doesn't go far. Well, the fridge is full of soda

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Talking to Kids About Sex This is a great read, an excerpt from a book, if for nothing more than the ultrasound part. While I have no need of this kind of book myself, I am a big proponent of handling these things correctly, rather than some combination of wrong and minimally - almost not at all - as was the case with me.

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Sepideh Sepi has a good post about the Iran protests (and some other stuff). She also models her new Miss Piggy underwear in a creative way.

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Happy Birthday It's Kate's birthday today. At least I didn't totally miss it as I did the other Kate's birthday.

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This Sounds Yummy

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Various Good Stuff Can be found over at The Colorado Compound.

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Advance Warning I just love when they tell me a new person is starting... on that person's first day! But maybe it's just as well. Last time, I knew 3 weeks ahead of time and had network and mail accounts created a week ahead of time. Then the person quit after 2 1/2 days. Meanwhile, I'm building a computer for someone who'll start Monday (almost a full months notice I got on that), but

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Scary Indeed Jim S. posts about the economy, jobs and international competition. I agree, scary, but what to do but wait and try to work out doing what we do best and settling into a new normal?

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Prather on Health Care Deregulation and Competition

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Mog on Longhorn and Palladium

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Let's Give Them Our Resolve Iran's "burnt generation." Via this fine site.

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Never Seen It Said Better This is well worth reading. Via Accidental Jedi.

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Argh I hate waking up 3 1/2 hours after going to sleep, wide awake, unable to fall back to sleep, knowing full well that if I stay up now, I will sleepwalk through the day. It's already been over an hour. I finally stopped trying to sleep any more, and the longer I'm out of bed, the sleepier I'm getting. Perhaps in a few minutes...

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Musical Memory A couple posts down I wrote on the association of music and memories. Deb at The Accidental Jedi followed it up with a good post of her own on the same topic. And silly me. It looks like this is a good blog I had not yet linked.

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Unexpected One thing I did not expect from blogging was the connectedness with fellow bloggers. I have no less than 18 bloggers on my AIM buddy list. Some I have chatted with, in or out of the periodic chats you see mentioned. Some I haven't, but merely added them in case, if they were available. For instance, I can see that Sepi, Dean and Rob are all on right now. Maripat and Lori must

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Memory Songs Do you find, as I do, that you associate specific memories or people with specific songs? I can't hear McArthur Park without remembering my 9th grade crush. I liked the song anyway, from the first time I heard it when I was younger, but she was in the color guard of a drum & bugle corps, and that was their theme song. Or perhaps it's just a memory of the first time you heard the

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RIP I just got the news, in e-mail from my father, that my stepmother's mother, Rose, died this evening. This is her, sitting at the kitchen table at my father's old house in Vermont. Off in the distance, hidden by the wreath so you can't see it, is Jay Peak. Anyway, this isn't unexpected. My father told me yesterday that it would happen in the next couple days almost beyond a doubt. She's

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Meatloaf I'm being adventurous, making meatloaf out of the second package of hamburger I bought a couple days ago. The first package was hamburgers two nights in a row. I have attempted meatloaf exactly once before; a lame effort that I knew at the time was a lame effort. This is a more serious effort, but still, flying without a recipe. I've no idea how it will taste, besides mildly spiced.

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I Love Saving the Day A paralegal has a couple floppies with documents from a specific bank that are relevant to real estate closings generically. That paralegal leaves. The floppies are around somewhere, presumably, but nobody knows where. Suddenly they have a dire need for the documents on them. So it turns out that once upon a time I zipped the contents of each of the two floppies,

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Duh I am running out of business checks. This is weird, as I thought I had an entire additional book of them. Oops. Apparently I blew on past the reorder slip for two reasons. One is that I don't use checks that quickly, so it was several months too soon to order new ones (which is why I only vaguely remember; it was so long ago). The other is cost and the desire to select a new vendor.

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Comments Well, they're down again. It almost seems to happen some of the time when I have made a new post and rejiggered things, then it needs time to come back. But probably just coincidence. It just sucks when you hit refresh to see if there are any new comments, and the comments blow up.

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HRC = RMN? Fascinating comparison of Nixon and Clinton over at Chicago Boyz. What do you think?

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Progress Well, by the time I got into looking at pMachine stuff tonight, I got nothing done beyon finding out the comments I had working great no longer show anything except the text entry box for the new comment itself (and all details of existing comments). I had it so it showed name, e-mail and URL above the main text entry, but not the silly location box. And I have it showing in a new

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Driving Songs Some songs were just made for driving. They can make you lose yourself in the sensation of flying along the highway. They can produce a gravitational anomoly in the vicinity of your right foot; "sorry officer, but that song came on the radio and I couldn't help it." Of course I speak of Radar Love, by Golden Earing, the inspiration for this post, as the classic one. Any others

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Mahwwiage In comments at the Rottie's site, Frank J. expressed a strong need for a wife. I helpfully promoted Courtney as a fine option. Meanwhile, over in Courtney's comments, I found her declaring marriage not to be for her. I countered that with the proposed union with Frank J. She has agreed that an arranged marriage with someone she's never met might be a good thing. If he's scum, it

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Readability and Stuff The Fire Ant Gazette has a superb commentary on things that make a blog more or less readable, though admittedly mileage varies on the details. I would add that I don't like permalinks that are tied to an image. Why? Because I always right-click the permalink, click properties from the popup menu, highlight the URL, copy, cancel the properties dialog, and paste the URL

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Humor E-Mail This is a very old one I've seen a number of times, starting several years ago. It's still amusing, even though I think some things are obsolete or less definitive than they once were. Bawston "Getting around Boston" Pay no attention to the street names. There's no school on School Street, no court on Court Street, no dock on Dock Square, no water on Water Street. Back Bay

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Yes! I finally got my hair chopped off! No more unruly mop. He did a good job, too. Second shortest haircut I've had. Now that it's actually decided to be acceptably warm as many days as not, short hair is a good thing. Unfortunately, it was a big day for kids getting haircuts. There was a cute year or so old who wanted to play with my cell phone. His mother gave him hers, which was

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For What It's Worth... I posted to my Slutertarian page last night. I thought I might actually start posting education-related items there as I stumble upon them periodically. Here's the overall Slutertarian page. Here's my department page.

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Dating Advice Steve is looking for dating advice. Or dating avoidance advice, as the case may be. I'm no help in that department, being an utterly hopeless non-dater, but maybe you have ideas for him? At least you can read all the amusing comments (and the amusing post), even if you have nothing to add.

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I Have Strange Dreams Out of the blue I was buying, or perhaps inheriting, a big, run down old house in a rural area. The area imaged looked like a combination of Plympton, MA and Holland, VT. The occupant had been one old woman. There were at least 11 rooms, but I knew the place was only about half usable, because it was filled with accumulated old stuff. How I was getting it was unclear,

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Space Commercialization Yet Another Weird SF Fan posts about space commercialization, which is always a topic dear to my heart, and proves my impulse to put this blog in the "Prometheans" category made sense. That is where it will go when I continue sorting.

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Moxie Vote Rob Sama has a poll on which Moxie you prefer, complete with pictures.

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8000 For what it's worth, my 8000th hit was someone on Comcast in the eastern time zone, running XP and IE6, with no referrer. Subsequently I've been mini-bloggerlanched. That's one thing about Blogger. They display a small number of recently updated Blogger blogs on their main page. It's not actually reliable or continuously update (so the "most recent" might sit there for a few hours

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And Another... Viking Pundit says that Between The Coasts has fled Blogspot. I hope I didn't already know this and post it, because I am not scrolling back to see. I need to update 5-6 links at this point, just from the past couple days or so.

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Another Refugee Hell In A Handbasket has moved! Saw the news on Natalie Solent.

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Subversive Monkeywrenching What made me go read this amusing page was the discussion of grocery store discount cards, which I have been extremely resistant to. I don't shop at Stop & Shop because of them, except maybe in a pinch to run in and buy something that's not on sale anyway. I always liked Shaw's in part because they weren't Stop & Shop, but it seems their business objective is to

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Looking for some good stuff? Well, over here is one place to start.

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Silly Dell Tricks Okay, so you order a computer. After ordering you verify with your computer guy that it ought have been XP Pro, not Home, so within a day of placing the order, you call Dell to see if you can change the OS spec. They have already shipped the computer, being efficient, but they agree to send you XP Pro and you send them back the copy of XP Home. So you get the copy of XP Pro,

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How Sad Is It That I have never heard of, or at least heard, half of these songs.

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Happy Blogiversary It's Jim's 1 year blogiversary. Congratulations!

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Progress Minor progress, anyway. I have comments almost the way I want them, apart from making them load in a new window. However, there's a default "location" textbox that I have never seen anyone use. I commented all references to it, as far as I could see, but it's still there. Silly thing. Maripat ditched it, so there has to be a way. I also ditched a lot of the crap that's on the main

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So Far So Good Well, I have the absolute default pMachine weblog established in a ridiculously convoluted path. Obviously that's going to have to change or be virtualized. The default example blog is so not remotely how I will want it to be. Getting it established to this point is clearly the least of the work. Now that I know what I'm doing, I'd probably have done some of it a little

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This is Annoying It's midnight. I got to the office at 9:30 AM and just got home maybe an hour ago. One of my partners decided he wanted to pop in at "6:30 or 7 o'clock" to show me where his code stood and get some input. I don't think it was too much past 8:00 when he arrived, and I did accomplish some cleaning in the meantime. Also talked with the client in Fall River, with whom I'd

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Elhide.com If you go to www.elhide.com, you should automatically be redirected to whatever blog is currently the operational one. Currently that means this one on Blogspot; that's just a preliminary. In case anyone is interested.

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Comments Disabled Since I would rather have no comments than have to click an error about 50 times as my blog loads (which translates into slooooooow loading if you are set not to see the script errors), and since it didn't simply go away promptly as it usually does, I have disabled comments. I have to assume Enetation is broken for an extended time, and presumably I will have an alternative

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Pathetic Earthlings Another one bites the dust. Pathetic Earthlings has left Blogspot. This should remind me to fix my links. If you haven't checked out this site in the past, it's worth keeping an eye on. As the subtitle says, "space, politics, and single malt whisky."

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