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"The Stranger Beside Me" and "Gift of Fear" and others
Ms IP, who shall go pseudonymous since this is unlocked (and whom I have been remiss in contacting lately) recommended these two books to me a few months ago.
Read them. No, really. I just may make them your Christmas/Birthday/Solstice/Hannukah/NY/Kwanzaa/I-care-about-you-do-I-really-need-an-excuse presents.
A long ago co-worker recommended them to ( Read more... ) -
New takes on an old benchmark
Question posed to me ( Read more... ) -
Lies, damned lies, statistics ...
And then there are vendor specifications. At least with a politician's promises, you can just assume that they will be broken and then be pleasantly surprised when they're kept. -
Another good reason to breast feed when possible
FDA sets melamine standard for baby formula (yahoo/AP)
Though, I wonder what the typical concentration of melamine (and cyanauric acid) is in breast milk. I would think much lower than in the baby formulas tested. -
My 'favorite' word for today
Boondoggle. Today has been an abject lesson in the meaning of the word "boondoggle." -
For a guy in the office ... Any SF Area ducati owners out there?
Where do you take your bike in for repairs? -
Election Thoughts.
I haven't posted much about this year's campaign, mostly out of failure to find time and words ( Read more... ) -
Damn
Someone already registered berkeley.eu -
Oh right, it's a "Holiday" today.
Happy Columbus Indigenous Indignant European Oppression Day from the People's Republic of Berkeley. -
Awesome: geek, work
For a while now, the IM service at $work (we run our own IM service that in theory interoperates with Google Talk, LJ Talk, and other Jabber/XMPP based IM services) has been unable to communicate with Google Talk. Messages can go one way only from $work.IM to Google Talk ( Read more... )