It's one thing to know that this sort of thing goes on in various industries, such as clothing manufacturing, and to realize that one needs to be aware of the practices of the companies one purchases clothing and other apparel from, to make certain that one is not supporting vile, evil scum ( Read more... )

http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/33520.html at least implies that the main perpetrators of the Nigerian scam are apparently people who are at least of African descent, and quite possibly traceable to Nigeria, which rather blows my faith in the complete dishonesty of ( Read more... )

I'm glad to see that, despite Verisign's move to monopolize the typo-squatting industry, the industry is still alive and well, as verified by checking on livejournal's typos. Restricting oneself to single-character typos, all missing characters are handled by other registrars or active sites, except for one variant which appears to be handled by a ( Read more... )

Last week, I had a new experience; a friend1 suggested we go to a seafood restaurant2 to which he had been, but I hadn't. Being willing to try new experiences, I accepted ( Read more... )

I've been working on moving for the past two weeks. This has been a slow process, because I have a more-than-full-time job, and various other items keep consuming time.

Now, I will preface this next bit with the following: I do not have nearly as many books as gwferguson; I do not even come close to competing with any small public libraries ( Read more... )

Well, I know better than to think that. I certainly know it could get worse than it is right now ( Read more... )

One week ago today, the most wonderful person in the world ended her one week visit and left to go back to the cool north, leaving my apartment cleaner than it's been since I finished moving in. (Cleaning has continued, albeit at a much slower pace ( Read more... )

I used to have a coworker who claimed "Wally is my hero." I wondered about that for a while, and started realizing that he can, in fact, be moderately impressive. Such as today...


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When I have a premonition that I should go into work early, I should *NOT* roll over, and go back to sleep for another hour or so ( Read more... )

I was listening to the news late last night, and heard about a plane wreck in South Korea. Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of the people on the plane were Koreans ( Read more... )