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In case you're looking into ServerBeach
If you're looking into web hosting, and I know you are, you may want to avoid ServerBeach. Here is my message to a listerve I host on a Serverbeach server regarding the fact that some people can't receive mail from it after a recent IP migration at our hosting company:
I'm making strides towards my goal of killing everyone at my hosting company ( Read more... ) -
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This is the third time I've gotten sick in the last 2 months. I don't even know how I got sick this time. But I'm frontloading Emergen-C and Airborne. Maybe I can stave it off.
So the Project Respond job doesn't really look to be within my reach. I don't have a license or car right now and thus I have no driving record at all. I also don't have ( Read more... ) -
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I will not drink more coffee today.
I will not avoid work today.
Shit. I'm probably doing that right now. Fuck it. I'm gonna go read Harry Potter at Stumptown. And I will have tea. Not coffee ( Read more... ) -
Coffee is love
Caffeine and sugar are like love. So is much food ( Read more... ) -
News makes me sick
I just went over to cnn.com to see the coverage about New Orleans. The city is totally deluged. The cover photo for the story is downright frightening. What makes me sick, tho, is how terribly exploitive CNN is being of the pain. The news story is interspersed with links to "special video reports" with descriptions like:
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Jury Duty...
...can kiss my ass. But Colleen is there with me!! Colleen is one of my classmates from my grad school cohort. Of all the voters in Multnomah county, we got picked for duty on the same day. Whodathunkit? They even have wireless in the jury room but Colleen and I have been too busy doing the Breakfast Club thing for me to use it. Right now we're on ( Read more... ) -
He is actually kinda insane in that fun, loveable way
New old-school arcadish game from insane genius Jared Seaman: Zombies of the Crown
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Aqua isn't evil -- just misunderstood.
Aqua may be one of the most poorly understood music groups ever. People dis them for "Barbie Girl" but 9.7 out of 10 of those people never actually listened to the lyrics. Aqua is good at satire and that's what "Barbie Girl" is about ( Read more... ) -
Travels at Home
Y'know, I've noticed that international travel really helps me notice how cool my home city is. I just got back from Japan -- which was fabulous (more on that later.) As I was walking around NW Portland today, I noticed a bunch of stuff I hadn't seen before that made me go "whoa, that's pretty cool." I had the same experience after coming home from ( Read more... ) -
Decemberists
I've decided that The Decemberists are one of the best bands operating right now. Nevermind that they're from Portland -- that's incidental (but still makes me happy.) Their style is awesome and they're the only lyric-heavy band I've ever seen at the Crystal Ballroom that didn't sound like crap (the Crystal is a poor venue for pretty much anything ( Read more... )