Could not stop making faces during the conference call. I need to develop a decent poker face dammit!

Exercise shrinks abdominal fat cells

Seriously?! Who'd have thought...

On another note, American body image is messed up but I don't have time to rant about it so will leave it at that.

Just had the latest in the series of completely asinine conversations with the server admins. The development server would go down (not technically going down but staying with us as an undead server presence -- pingable but not SSHable ( Read more... )

Danny is someone from the past. Not the type of past that happened twenty, thirty years ago -- I am simply not old enough to have collected such memories, but it's The Past, a different era and a different life, nonetheless ( Read more... )

Saw two headlines on Yahoo! when I got to work.

The first one: "Bush seeks to build standing with public"

The second one: "FBI disrupts New York City tunnel plot"

Not that I'm paranoid or anything... And, of course, our police and FBI agents are brave and smart and whatchamacallit. But for a plan that they've been monitoring "for at least eight months ( Read more... )

A Wired article that sums up everything that's wrong with the movie theaters today (and, according to the article, tomorrow, too).

http://home.ourfuture.org/videos/take-back-america-2006/senator-barack-obama.htmlRead more... )

Since I took that "Which Classic Female Literary Character Are you?" test, I've seen many, many blog owners take it.
And more often than not, the results point to the beloved Pride and Prejudice heroine. I wonder, does it mean that many bloggers (both, female and male) are intelligent and gutsy or did the test simply favor Miss Bennett?

Hmm.

Spent most of the day yesterday thinking that there was a trojan in a software package I piloted. Turned out in the afternoon that it was a false positive by an anti-virus vendor.

It's been almost a full 24 hours since I found out that I did NOT distribute a dropper, but several facial muscles are still twitching...

Twitch.

I am finally properly outfitted with the following items:

- computer (1)
- water (lots)
- Indy radio client and an RSS reader with a full set of my bookmarks. Thank the goddess  and the geeks for OPML...

So, I am going through the news back-log on the reader (Feedreader 3.02, if you must ask. Downloaded it last week and so far I like what I see).

There ( Read more... )