I’ve not written about the Terry Schiavo case, mostly as I hadn’t thought through it thoroughly enough to collect my thoughts here. In catching up on blog-reading (from being gone basically for a week), I found this article by Donald Sensing that seems to me to sum up the two sides of the argument very [...]
Filed under: General | 6 Comments »
I mentioned yesterday that I had bought a Dell Jukebox DJ30 MP3 player last week. I’ve only just started using it, so I don’t know everything there is to know about it, but my first impression of the player itself is good. The player is solidly built, easy to use, and connects well with the [...]
Filed under: General | 1 Comment »
There is nothing at all good about this story. A woman bit into a partial finger served in a bowl of chili at a Wendy’s restaurant, leading authorities to a fingerprint database Thursday to determine who lost the digit.
Filed under: General | 2 Comments »
When deciding where to work, there are a lot of things you can look at from the outside to help in making your decision. You can look at a company’s financial history, including their track record of delivering the income and profit they told Wall Street they’d deliver. You can search through news archives for [...]
Filed under: General | No Comments »
Late last Saturday, it may have actually been very early Sunday morning, I ordered a computer and MP3 player from Dell. I had built a PC a year and a half ago that has been having motherboard problems. I finally got tired of changing components to try and find out why it wouldn’t boot and [...]
Filed under: General | No Comments »
Iowa State won earlier today, beating the Minnesota Gophers. Being an ISU graduate, I was pleased to see that. The few of us who were in the office today bought pizza for lunch and watched the game at work. The Northern Iowa – Wisconsin game is on right now. The Badgers are winning by ten, [...]
Filed under: General | No Comments »
Here’s an interesting resource if you’re in the market for a job and might be subject to a job interview. It is a list of twenty-five difficult questions you ought to be prepared to be asked in a job interview.
Filed under: General | No Comments »
Looking for a great list of tips for the GMail email service from Google? Look no further, I say.
Filed under: Technical Info | 2 Comments »
Here’s another “so Gary can remember where to find something” link. This time to Tom Raftery who is running WordPress v1.5 with no spam plugins and was spam-free for more than a week and a half. I’m currently using SpamKarma on my v1.5 weblogs and plan to go to it on the SkyBox weblog, once [...]
Filed under: WordPress Information | 4 Comments »
Mostly for myself, and mostly just to try and figure out what the dickens he’s actually doing (I’m a geek, but not THAT good of a geek!), here’s a link to an article Oliver Tseng wrote explaining how he uses a SSH tunnel and a proxy on his home computer to work around restrictions from [...]
Filed under: Technical Info | No Comments »
