Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
This is totally asinine that a major organization like CNN or ABC can’t figure out how to block a flippin’ port on their firewalls so they end up getting servers shut down by this stupid worm. If I were management there, I’d have a reward out for the head of the idiot that left those ports open.
And for you Mac zealots out there, don’t tell these people to get a Mac — they just need better geeks.
This project has been sitting in my “to-do” list for quite a while, but after cleaning up my desk here a bit, I decided I better do this before our next concert season comes up. This involves music notation questions and solutions for a score I’d like to produce for in memory of a percussionist who passed away a few years ago, so I’m putting this in the extended entry for this. Feel free to skip if this is totally out of your league or over your head, or click below if you’re interested.
For those of you who use Blogger (and there are lot of you) and also use Microsoft Word (ditto), you can now compose your blog entries and post directly from MS Word. This way, you can also compose entries off line and post them when you have a connection again. Link via the Google Blog.
I, personally, can’t believe all the hoopla over a mouse that Apple should’ve had years ago. Regardless, Paul thinks the mouse could’ve been better, so he decided to let Apple know thinking that a single-fist or single-forehead design might have been more appropriate.
My daughter is going to be starting kindergarten here in a few weeks (assuming the district transfer to Ensworth — which is actually closer than the school whose district we’re actually in — goes through). I think she’s more than prepared for kindergarten, but apparently some parents are worried and are getting private tutoring for their kids before they head off to school.
That’s sad. Very sad. If your kid isn’t ready, it’s probably because you didn’t interact with them enough growing up — reading to them, playing games with them, turning off the TV, etc… . Doing last minute cramming isn’t going to help them that much, it’s just going to frustrate them.
If you’re going to rob somebody, don’t do it on a live TV show. Thanks Cheryl for that.
(And for those folks who are thinking about giving me crap because the news is a week old, don’t bother because I really don’t care how old it is if it’s still funny.)
“All they are is sperm donors, and most women aren’t going to want an unemployable sperm donor loafing around and making the house look untidy.”
Thanks Cheryl for that.
I can picture milk becomming the most popular drink in Russia because of this.
MOSCOW – Russia’s long winter will just fly by for a herd of Russian cows which, a newspaper reported on Tuesday, will be fed confiscated marijuana over the cold months.
Drug workers said they adopted the unusual form of animal husbandry after they were forced to destroy the sunflowers and maize crops that the 40 ton of marijuana had been planted among, Novye Izvestia daily reported.
Thanks Cheryl for the link.
Note to self: If you ever see one of this big moths flying around the house, make sure you turn off all the halogen torch lamps in the living room. Otherwise, when they’ll fly towards the light and when they hit the bulbs of the stupidly hot, burn the hell out of you if you touch them lamps, they go *poof* in a nice little cloud of smoke and stink of rotten, burnt, flesh.
Moths are attracted to our lamps. Moths are dumb, and smell really bad when burned to death. Now excuse me while I go air out our house from the latest victim.