I watched it way too long; it was bringing me down.

Which of these issues do you recognize? care about? help fix? Poll Which points?I'm feeling increasingly like my life is pointless if I don't start devoting most of my energy to doing what I can about issues like these.

This comedian I've heard on NPR has just written an incisive lampoon highlighting the basic fallacy of the fear mongering terror alerts the Shrub administration keeps issuing.

Also, yay, I've pared my inbox down to less than 250 messages!

Small victories of the day: Got my kitchen in order and dining room (card) table clear, booted my desktop computer for the first time in weeks, got my e-mail inbox below 300 messages, and finally found my cordless phone handset!

Still missing my medicine cabinet contents, though. :-/

There still seems to be a position open in Halifax that I'd be qualified for. I'm afraid of moving there alone, not knowing anyone there, but it could be a good place for me, at least for a while. The money is better than anything I've seen in Edmonton (as good as anything I've seen in Toronto that I'd be qualified for). The cost of living might ( Read more... )

As at least one friend has pointed out to me, I have never really gone apartment hunting for just myself. I've always been looking for myself and exactly one other, at least a housemate. So there's always been someone else with a direct interest (as in, also benefiting) in the outcome. My most sanguine take on the new experience is that it's ( Read more... )

Are the South Australian Democrats in power or official opposition, or are they a minor party?

Nice to see the occasional politician taking note of the problems inherent in a proprietary software monoculture. Ian Gilfillan comments on Sasser worm.

My new server is now up and running. I had to drive it out to Hard Data on the North edge of Edmonton to have the RAM replaced. I'm quite relieved the problem getting it to run last night was nothing more serious. Profuse thanks to Robert for taking an interest, especially since he has a fairly similar (but newer) system and is an electronics ( Read more... )

(Nice summer we had, today. Tomorrow it goes back to 12C and windy for a while ( Read more... )

Thanks to purplecthulhu for pointing out this amusing bit of geekery. I find some of the answers to the OS quiz particularly amusing.

Something I didn't anticipate about using a laptop: Doing a web search while sitting in someone else's office, then returning home to find the search(es) still open can feel a little eerie, especially when it relates to an earlier phone conversation with that same someone. "Wait," I was almost thinking, "I didn't know to look that up until I was ( Read more... )