I’ve always thought the Teletubbies were a bit weird (see some previous posts), but now it’s official: They’re all crackheads.
Month: October 2005
How People Get High-End Government Jobs
It’s common knowledge that there are a ton of government jobs out there that are held by folks who don’t deserve them. The objective of Find The Brownie is to find an important government job occupied by a person with no apparent qualifications other than strong personal, political, or business ties to a member of the administration.
Next MS Office Will Have Native PDF Support
Well it’s about damn time. Now if MS could just get support on the OS-level like certain other folks, then all the better.
How I Spent My Day
Yes, I know that headline reads like a cheesy Xanga/MySpace/MSNGroups entry, but bear with me, as I don’t have any intention about telling you about what I ate for breakfast, how I slept, what kind of shampoo I used, how long it took me to get to work, what my kids watched this morning on TV, or any other stupid thing (but if you care: Cinnamon Life, fine, whatever was in the shower, far too long, The Wiggles, and I need to buy new shoes as these things are falling apart). If you want the blog randomness, there’s plenty of that locally already. But if you’re interested in some Qwest stupidity and tax collection lunacy, read on….
Mailing List Broken
Apparently my nightly mailing list hasn’t allowed new subscribers or unsubscribes for about three weeks (or more) now but was still sending out e-mails on schedule so I assumed it was still working. After some experimentation, it was totally broken. I just didn’t read the release notes properly, so I’ll try to be fixing this as soon as I can.
Update: Fixed the sub/unsub problem, so you can now start using the form on this page again to sign-up (or just go here.
Final Update: Got a new version of my scheduled mailer from the developer, and hopefully things should be fixed again. If anybody has any trouble, let me know.
122 And Counting
That’s how many blogs I now have over at Bend Blogs after coming across a pile of LiveJournal folks in this public directory (thanks to this ORTalk post). I’m still working on a way to better index all that content so it doesn’t bulldoze my server (as aggregating all that content is a bit of a processor hog with off-the-shelf solutions, and I’m not cool enough to be able to home-brew my own software like Paul did at ORblogs). I know I need an RSS feed for it as well, and that’s on my never-ending to-do list. At some point, I’d like to integrate a rolling Bend Blogs file that I can include into the “Bend Blogs” links on the right side of this page (which hasn’t been updated in a long time) that will show that latest 15 or so blogs that have been updated.
As always, pop me a note if there are any sites that I’m missing (or if you want to suggest a fairly simple but robust aggregating solution that I can actually tweak fairly easily).
The 200GB iPod Nano
It can only function for about six minutes, but man, that thing is sweet.