Monthly Archives: August 2007 - Page 2

Come on now…

Posted by on August 28, 2007 No comments

There’s a bunch of talk on the internets about the latest Republican sex scandal. Apparently, Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) was arrested for lewd conduct in an airport bathroom. I’ve read the arrest report — which reads like a Harlequin Romance by the way — and while the activities described certainly indicate that Craig was interested in something other than the usual bathroom activities, I can’t see where the conduct was lewd.

If you know me, you know I generally take great joy in the exposure of Conservative/Religious hypocrisy, but this just reeks of witch hunt. I mean really… flirting with someone under a bathroom stall is illegal? I just don’t get it.

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Another one bites the dust

Posted by on August 27, 2007 No comments

WACO, Tex., Aug. 27 — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned. A senior administration official said he would announce the decision later this morning in Washington.

From New York Times

Recent Bookmarks (correcting bad feed issues)

Posted by on August 23, 2007 No comments

I installed a new plugin to help with the formatting of the Daily Links posting I have set up from my del.icio.us feed. It immediately screwed up my twitter notifications, as somehow it changes the title after the permalink is created. Thereby giving my twitter followers http://www.ryptide.com/2007/08/23/links-for-2007-08-24/ instead of http://www.ryptide.com/2007/08/23/bookmarks-for-08-24-2007/ which is correct (well, was correct before I removed it and replaced it with this one. That means the reader hits an incorrect link and gets a 404 page. Smooth.

Anyway, for anyone interested, I’ve taken all the links that have now been posted a few times, and am making one post from them instead.

I will probably get rid of this daily posting, and dump it into a sidebar widget of most recent bookmarks instead of a daily blog posting. Mostly because my blog pretty quickly becomes a place to read my feeds rather than what little commentary I actually have, and there is my tumblelog for that if that’s what both my readers are after.

Oh, Hell no.

Posted by on August 22, 2007 3 comments

I’d like to lodge a formal complaint to whomever is in charge of determining the stupidity of Web 2.0 terminology, regarding “Bacn” which some retard has decided should be the name for “Email you want – But not right now.”

Bacn is a new problem now plaguing our email inboxes. Putting it simply, Bacn is email you receive that isn’t spam… And isn’t personal mail. It’s the middle class of email. It’s notifications of a new post to your Facebook wall or a new follower on Twitter. It’s the Google alert for your name and the newsletter from your favorite company.

This is preposterous! Bacon is something I want ALL THE TIME! It is not something that should be used in reference to anything negative.

Netizens! We must unite against this flagrant insult to everyone’s favorite meat product!

THIS. SHALL. NOT. STAND!

It’s nice to know I’m not alone!

An Experiment in De-cluttering

Posted by on August 22, 2007 No comments

I currently carry around a messenger-style bag Monday through Friday to work and wherever I happen to be directly after work. In the bag is a bunch of stuff, normally a book, lots of cables, my laptop, netflix envelopes I haven’t returned, pens, bus schedules, etc. Lots and lots of stuff that I use (or should use) very little.

This poses a few major problems for me:

  1. I feel limited in what I can do directly after work, because I feel tied to my stuff and burdened by it.
  2. My laptop is always with me at the office, where it provides a very shiny distraction from the things I need to be doing for my full-time job. This usually means I work late to make up for it.
  3. I stay at the office late to work on side-projects and goof off instead of going home, keeping my apartment clean and spending time with my cats and goofing off there. You know, where I pay rent to be able to goof off and do more than sleep and store my stuff.

My plan after the jump…

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