Category Archives: me!me!me!

“It’s a good tax code.”

Posted on Sunday, 2002 June 02 by Anton

When I was a young idealist, finance was beneath me; now it’s merely beyond me. I got a form letter from my late employer (a firm that essentially shut down in December), saying that my 401(a)(4) money is waiting for … Continue reading →

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yes, I’m bigger than you; so?

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 May 28 by Anton

Lately the panhandlers (and nobody else) keep addressing me as “big guy”. They did not always, or so it seems. I suppose I could reply, “What do you want, little guy?”

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no nukes here, really!

Posted on Monday, 2002 May 27 by Anton

Since logging began in November, I’ve had 13 referrals from www.iaea.org, which appears to be dead; whois says it’s the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Vienna. Ha? Is someone spoofing? Update 6/01: That site is up now.

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penguin problems

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 22 by Anton

Yesterday my Linux box crashed and I spent all evening trying to bring it back to life, with – as they say at NASA – partial success. Argh. Later: In desperation, I tried ^C when the boot process says “/1 … Continue reading →

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oops

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 May 07 by Anton

Aw, hell. I’ve just wasted the day polishing my response to a troll.

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oops

Posted on Monday, 2002 May 06 by Anton

I had my BIOS set to boot from floppy, HD and CD, in that order, when I wanted CD before HD. No wonder stuff wouldn’t install.

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web-logging the old-fashioned way

Posted on Saturday, 2002 May 04 by Anton

It occurs to me that I ought to be logging not only the good stuff I find for the first time but also the sites to which I return periodically. So. Sites of the last few days. (Most of these … Continue reading →

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