I signed up for email alerts of sales from AirTran, as they are based out of Atlanta and they are cheap.  Usually, any email they send me is a sale alert.  They have yet to send me any sales beyond November 5, so who knows if I am coming home for Thanksgiving, but they did send me some very important information on why oil prices are in their ( Read more... )

Mmmm . . . . I'm enjoying Firefox 3.  You should enjoy it as well, especially the Del.icio.us add-on; it is a huge improvement from the one for Firefox 2 (though having another bar is a little annoying). I also use Ref-Control and No-Script, which are very useful but not recommend if you need to see all the adds on the page or if you are not sure ( Read more... )

Roth IRAs are teh awesome.  You should consider one.

Obviously the gifted kids are not doing the stats: NYC is seeking to use a broader rule to accept 'gifted' students into said programs in the city's public schools.  OK, dumbing down TAG programs is disappointing but nothing new. What did confuse me what their math:
    "The change,  . . . , would ( Read more... )

A little while ago, the head of HUD nationwide was questioned concerning the blackballing of the Philadelphia HUD chief.  He and his secretaries were kind enough to write e-mails to each other about how they were going to make the Philly chief's job difficult.  This came at a time when people were also questioning the HUD director on pushing ( Read more... )

There's nothing like being aware that inspires a little fear . . .

Getting a little old school:  The people of Paraguay aren't very happy about a new outbreak of yellow fever, but they were even less pleased with their country's lack of vaccines.  After demonstrations were held, the governments is now vaccinating the population.  The outbreak is ( Read more... )

In news of the sinister but really neat, a technique for detecting drug/substance use in communities has been developed and tested. Basically determine the metabolite produced by said drug in urine and search on a really massive scale. It's a nifty way to find out where the really good parties are, or where you might not want to be (in case you ( Read more... )

Crazy, huh? That's what I think, at least ( Read more... )

This week has been a bit frustrating. I came home from pint night to find an email from my credit card company saying that a non-USAA (my credit card company) account had been attempted to be registered on Tuesday morning while I was in school and to call them if this action was not performed by me. It was definitely not a phishing scam, as I ( Read more... )

So, as lucubratrix just announced in her journal, I, too, am going friends-only in the interests of hiding myself from the greate and most eville webarchive. Hey, it might not be the Eye of Sauron, but it still is no good for me in this particular case. I don't think I had many people who did not belong to lj who were reading my journal. If you want to ( Read more... )