This blog is moving to a new address: http://elfsdh.blogspot.com. Why did I move? While LiveJournal gave me a good start, I quickly outgrew the capabilities of the free accounts. Firstly, the inability to change the template was very annoying. Secondly, LiveJournal is very isolated from the rest of the blogosphere. It also tends to be approached ( Read more... )

While I was looking at this site stats, I figured I'd look at the interests as well (and maybe by adding a few, I might increase readership? nah...). LJ also has a Popular interests page, and here are some broad conclusions from it as of today ( Read more... )

I'm in the process of implementing LJ tags and noticed that Technorati might be able to read them, if you manually ping them.

Technorati ProfileSo, this post is a test of tags, and a link to my new Technorati profile (which was required me to associate the blog with my Technorati account ( Read more... )

(Second part of a series inspired by experiences in amateur tech support and the endless stream of articles yapping about how the time for desktop Linux is either never or next year. The first part is here.Did you get that? No. Read it again. Still don't get it? Hmmmm... not sure why, it's plainly obvious ( Read more... )

And, on 7/7/05, London joins the ranks of Western cities attacked by Al Qaida, or one of its affiliates. No expression of sadness will change that this form of coordinated terrorism has become an unfortunate fact of life in our society ( Read more... )

(First in a series inspired by experiences in amateur tech support and the endless stream of articles yapping about how the time for desktop Linux is either never or next year ( Read more... )

Gacked from fleurdelis28.

Si... Silicon
You scored 40 Mass, 36 Electronegativity, 39 Metal, and 0 Radioactivity! Interesting. Take a bunch of really common person-elements and throw ( Read more... )

The Tikkun Leil Shavuot is the traditional all-night learning session that takes place the first night of Shavuot. Every other year I'd been here, the Hillel had two tikkuns running concurrently -- one run by the Hillel community, and usually taught by members of both Conservative minyanim (the adults generally taught 10pm-1am sessions, and ( Read more... )

Dear Refrigerator Users,

If your milk is:
(1) expired,
(2) leaking,
(3) separated,
(4) green,
(5) or any combination of the above,

Please dispose of it.

Thank you.

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