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Monthly Archives: March 2006
Injected
I was lying in bed trying to get to sleep when I suddenly felt a sharp jab in a sensitive spot. My wife had injected me with something. She said I should just go back to sleep, but the pain … Continue reading
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Coworker from Germany
I had a coworker from Germany. She had quite a neatness thing; she kept her books wrapped in plastic bags, and when she borrowed books from me she returned them wrapped. She did extensive genealogical research on her coworkers including … Continue reading
Posted in Dreams
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Buying batteries and pencils
I went to some kind of discount warehouse store to get some batteries and pencils. These were on shelves in a big room that looked more like a college library than a store. In the middle of the room were … Continue reading
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General-purpose warnings
Seen in a manual for a consumer electronic device: Do not connect incompatible products. Wow, it never would have occurred to me that incompatible products might be… well … uh… incompatible! I’ve always been amused by the airbag warnings on … Continue reading
Posted in Computing, Humor, Rants
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Worst movie I’ve seen in years
I strongly recommend against seeing “Ultraviolet“. It’s supposed to be a science fiction live action comic-book style vampire movie. They got the “comic” part right, though not intentionally. It’s like a bad mashup of The Matrix, Kill Bill, and Blade. … Continue reading
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A new collective noun
From a meeting at work: A jumble of PowerPoint slides
Posted in Words
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Extending the PATRIOT Act
Looks like it’s almost a done deal, unfortunately. “Our support for the Patriot Act does not mean a blank check for the president,” said Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who voted to pass the bill package. What an incredibly … Continue reading
Spam is an economic problem, and needs an economic solution
In a discussion on Slashdot a few weeks, someone wrote: Spam is a social problem, not primarily a technical one, and the solution is social. No, it’s an economic problem, thus the solution is an economic one. As long as … Continue reading
Posted in Blog/website/news comments, Computing, Spam
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SELinux, Postfix, and Mailman
Some time back I set up a new server machine running Fedora Core 4 x86_64, with Postfix as the MTA, and with the Mailman mailing list manager. I have a very slightly nonstandard Postfix setup, with recipient_delimiter set to a … Continue reading
Posted in Fedora, Mailman, Postfix, SELinux
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Which part of separation of church and state does G.W. not understand?
Boing Boing reports that King George the W has now signed an executive order to DHS for the creation of a “Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives”.