I've had dinner with Jeremy a few dozen times, at least. Although, to be honest, it was really just the rest of us having dinner with Brandt. Really, if you want to have a kick-ass Geek Dinner, Brandt P. Fundak should be the guest of honor. Of course, given the choice between Dinner with Z in London, and Dinner with Brandt in Cleveland, I'd have to go with the guy that can't hold onto a job.
Dball was able to renew the domain for me. So it is mine* still, at least for another 12 months. Will be grabbing a 5 year lease ASAP. Per Derek's suggestion going to use Domaindirect.com, Tucows' consumer site.
Rock on.
*technically, it's Jeremy's, but we'll get that straightened out now that I'm a big boy and can try managing it myself. :)
Due to my not paying attention to email Z sent a few months ago about taking action regarding our domains, it is quite possible that I will lose danisaacs.com, pending what Derek is able to do tonight. Given this domain has links from Jeremy and Kasia and a few other bloggers, I suspect it'll be grabbed the moment it becomes available by some robot where it will be a home to ads for penis enlargement and poker. Shame on me for not paying closer attention and acting sooner.
Hopefully it works out,. But I'm resigned to defeat.
Gear Live | How Google Maps Got Me Out Of A Traffic Ticket
The best part isn't that Google shows arrows, though that is ultimately what got him out of it, but that he was able to find an open WiFi network, and STEAL THE BANDWITDH in open court, in front of a judge!!!!
Can an ambulance chaser somewhere figure out if that means a court has allowed anonymous access to an unsecured network? :)
Toddler Has Identity Stolen Twice - Yahoo! News
Another reason Terry has not gotten a response is that technically she and her daughter are not victims of fraud because there was no financial loss, Niblick said.
In this case, someone had used the daughters Social Security number and her name to get a phone. And it is true that unless the phone company comes after the toddler, they can't say the fraud cost them X amount of dollars.
However, the unpaid charges WILL show up on a credit report. And I believe a case could be made that by damaging your credit, they have damaged you financially.
Woogie, you're in Indiana, do they not have any Identity theft laws on the books? Want to ping your state legislator about that?
Not sure if this is really the case or not. But the Daily Show, JStew in particular, hasn't seemed nearly as funny since they returned from the holiday. Particularly disturbing is Jstew's interaction with guests, in which he actually engages in reasonable discourse instead of sarcasm or irony. That's all well and good, for NPR or PBS. But it's not the reason I watch the Daily Show.
Maybe the pressure is getting to them. Maybe they need to spend a few weeks in South Africa with their Spiritual Advisors. Or maybe they just need to get back into the swing of things. Whateve rthe case, i'm not enjoying the show as much as I did a month ago.
One of my favorite Flikr Featrs are the notes you can put onto the pics. I created a "note" tag so I could keep track of everything I make a remark about.
As any student knows (and I presume anyone reading this was at one time a student, probably one that had to buy their own books at some point) Textbooks suck. Now they don't suck per se. But the industry that surrounds them does. they are insanely expensive, and the markets that keep them that way function by more than the Invisible Hand. I detest this criminal conspiracy.
Therefore, it was with great joy that I read this:
"A high school in Vail will become the state's first all-wireless, all-laptop public school this fall. The 350 students at the school will not have traditional textbooks. Instead, they will use electronic and online articles as part of more traditional teacher lesson plans."
Bravo! Make the teachers work to find sources to teach from. Let them create a lesson plan that isn't dominated by some textbook author's whims. And allow the kids to study like kids study nowadays, with their computers.
Let this work well, and other school systems, desperate to cut costs, will surely follow.
Of interest:
"Carol and her husband, Ron, away from home attending a "very important conference" at a posh Florida resort, rushed home 10 days later after learning of the death. Dot's other children, dutifully at their mother's side helping with the normal last minute arrangements - hospice notification, funeral parlor notice, revising the last will, etc. - happily picked up the considerable slack of the absent former heiress."
Thanks to a lot of help from very tolerant Code Whores (Kasia and Jeremy) I've managed to get most of my photo archive uploaded to Flickr. I have all of 2002, 2003, 2005, and up to sept. of 2004. Had to stop, since I was at %97 of my 2GB upload limit for the month, and wanted to be able to stay current, at least. I have 8968 photos up there right now. Probably about 4,00 more to go. But most will have to wiat until august. :)
For now, check out the sofa and chair we are currently thinking about buying with proceeds from the seeling of many stock options.
Nicklaus's Baptism - a photoset on Flickr
There are only a few peoploe (that are my Flickr pals) that can see these. If you aren't a pal, lemme know that you want to be, and I'll make it so. I have low standards.
This is something that annoys the hell out of me. I trust that it's only because Kristi pumps her breast milk and puts it in bottles, where it is then fed to the baby that this even occured to me. But it has, and it pisses me off:
"Breastfed" vs. "Bottle-fed" is a false dichotomy. In both cases, the delivery mechanism is being addressed. Not the relevant information, which is what is being eaten. Can you imagine your doctor asking if you eat with a fork or use your fingers, and using that information to make a medical judgement? Well my baby's doctor does. In fact, anyone that has ever asked has framed the question incorrectly.
Dumbasses.
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