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PSA for USAirways travel vouchers ...
The "free round trip" voucher you get for being bumped off of a flight, that they say works "just like frequent flyer miles" ... isn't quite exactly that. Basically, it's a free round trip, if your scheduled flights are the "super saver" flights for frequent flighter miles. Which means, finding a flight that works for it ... sucks. It can also ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: If Animals Could Talk
Which cat is peeing on our clothes? -
Feh.
It has come to my attention the Heinz ketchup will no longer have a pickle on the label. For some reason, this annoys me. Can't tell you why. Also, Heinz produces peanut butter. This should not be shocking, but it apparently, it's news to me. Also tangental, Reese's Peanut Butter cups and Jiffy Peanut Butter are not recalled items. Now you ( Read more... ) -
To my techie friends ...
Say one had code that searched a file. The search string was Chr(0)&Chr(68)&Chr(84) ....
Would that translate correctly as null&D&T (which is correct in the English world) in a country that uses double-byte character languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)?
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The Breast Cancer 3-Day
This October, I will be walking in The Breast Cancer 3-Day. I'm very fortunate that no one in my immediate family or myself has been affected by it; however, a co-worker is a two-time survivor and a few friends have had scares or relatives that have had it. But, aside from that, you never know who will get breat cancer (including men)(or really ( Read more... ) -
Today ... this morning ... from EUROPE ...
"I checked and it seems that our machines (*site here*) don't have the OS patch that is required for using updated time zone information. Could you please give me the patch number so that we can test it and roll it out to our users? As it is the end of the week already, it is a very urgent matter to us. Maybe you could call me as soon as you're in ( Read more... ) -
Swiss accidentally invade Liechtenstein
I'm sure the story is elsewhere, but this just cracked me up.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Mistaken-Invasion.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin