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  • QotD: Thanks But No Thanks

    How do you handle phone calls from telemarketers? I don’t get them. Most of the calls I take come in on my mobile phone. It’s illegal to telemarket to someone’s mobile phone in the US. If one does come thru on, say, a landline, I simply hang up or if I am feeling particularly pissy,…

  • Some Personal Computing History

    Over on phoneboy.com, I decided to go into my personal computing history, at least with respect to PCs and Macs. Might be worth reading for some, or it might be a total bore.

  • Repeat After Me

    Daylight Saving Time sucksDaylight Saving Time sucksDaylight Saving Time sucksad infinitum After this week’s fiasco at work related to Daylight Saving Time, I never ever want to have to deal with Daylight Saving Time again.

  • What Does Your Desk Look Like?

    I have two different desk pictures. One is my more “normal” desk and one is a “makeshift” desk I used today in order to focus in on a particular task. You can guess which is which, I hope. 🙂 One of the regulars in my VoIP blogging circle started a “meme” getting people to post…

  • Jaden Made His Bed

    Did this himself.

  • QotD: Musical Horoscope

    What’s your musical horoscope? (Put your player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.)Inspired by Stephanie. I am still working on my “Unrated” project where I am going through and rating all the songs in my iTunes collection. With that in mind, the next 10 songs on the playlist are:…

  • Feeling like an Archeologist

    As I alluded to in my last post, I started digging around in my University accounts. I am thanking my lucky stars I was a bit more of an email packrat in those days, as I am finding snippets of some interesting conversations, not to mention some old poetry. There is some emails I saved…

  • An Old Poem I Wrote in College

    I was going through some old files in my University Unix account trying to look for some of my favorite quotes to answer one of the recent quotes of the day. Instead, I found this “prose poem” I wrote to a girl on April 7th, 1993. There an email time stamp with it, thus why…

  • QotD: Good Genes

    What family member do you most aspire to be like? Why?Submitted by MalieKai. I don’t aspire to be like anyone in my family. I am who I am despite my genes. But I suppose if I were to pick someone, I’d pick my Grandma Hattie. She had seemingly infinite patience and infinite love to give.…

  • Elephant Feeding