Category Archives: me!me!me!

wahoo!

We have broadband! Mainly because my housemate wanted to listen to BBC without glitches, but hey, I’m not kicking it out of bed. For the first year it’s cheaper than dialup plus the extra phone line.

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another claim to fame

In 1994, I was (so they tell me who follow such things) the first Libertarian in California to be endorsed for partisan office by a major daily newspaper. Now I have a chance at a second footnote in the history … Continue reading

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Mutant Enemy ate my brain

A few months ago you may remember I had some dreams inspired by Buffy. This morning in dream, I was among the crew of Serenity, apparently taking Book’s place. We happened to be on Wash’s home planet, and I heard … Continue reading

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1337 unix skilz

I’ve just written my first cron job, to sort my Mozilla bookmarks by last access (since Moz won’t do it properly). Seems to work. Woohoo! I learned just enough from the Llama Book to do it crudely, but not enough … Continue reading

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yah-oops

Ah, hell. Suddenly my Yahoo password doesn’t work, and I can’t recover it — because I never told Yahoo my true birthdate, and of course I’ve long forgotten whatever bogus birthdate I filled in way back when. I much prefer … Continue reading

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you click me! you really click me!

Traffic on this site is heavier this month than in the previous eleven, with a spike on August 19 which seems to be a fluke. Later: September was heavier still. I hope it’s not just me.

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where do you see yourself in ten years?

Have I mentioned lately that I hate applying for jobs? They ask you to send a résumé. Then once they have it, they call you back and ask, “So what kind of position are you looking for?” because somehow their … Continue reading

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