The cat rubs against your chin in preference to your fingers...

I've been somewhat busy these last couple of weeks. I started a new job the second week of July. I'm working as phone-based technical support for a major CDMA cellular carrier. I'm supporting the carrier's data products as a second/third level support tech. Basically, if you are using data services over the CDMA system (or CDPD; an analog data system), and the first level technicians can't solve your problem with the resources they have, they escalate to us. I generally dela with around 15 ca...

I put a RAID in for our home file server (for a variety of reasons, here at the Lair, we keep many files (including our music collection and the My Documents directories for myself and DW) out on a file server. Last year, when we were trying to figure out back-up strategies for roughly 80 gb of data (much of it effectively irreplaceable from source material, and including important financial documentation), we realized that it would be easier to just pop for a RAID controller and another 80 G...

And I thought I had issues, learning to drive in the metro DC area

This post , on a blog I follow just so I don't have a one-sided view of the world, disturbs me. From the first line we have cognitive dissonance: "I've written and re-written a post about Fahrenheit 9/11, and I just have to admit that I'm irreconcilably ambivalent and can't resolve the issue it presents. Moore is dishonest and grossly manipulative, but I applauded anyway, because, simply, he hates Bush and so do I." Now, I have no idea who Unfogged is; what his or her persona...

This article from Slate is very interesting. "As you may already know, one of America's two political parties is extremely religious. Sixty-one percent of this party's voters say they pray daily or more often. An astounding 92 percent of them believe in life after death. And there's a hard-core subgroup in this party of super-religious Christian zealots. Very conservative on gay marriage, half of the members of this subgroup believe Bush uses too little religious rhetoric, and 51...

Topology fascinates me. So I had to follow up on this...

I love this story. Classic shaggy dog story meets the info age.

I don't have much to add to the linked article - his commentary is spot-on

This article from Slate starts out as a review of Garfield: the Movie. But it quickly veers off into a review of Garfield: the Phenomena. Maybe I'm being paranoid, but the whole thing strikes me as an attempt to damn with faint praise. Jim Davis is "scared" of white-hot success. (OK, I'm not Maureen Dowd, the full quote is "Nothing scares the man more than the backlash that's created by white-hot success.") Chris Suellentrop, t he author of the article, makes a...

A couple of peopel point out this kind of thing is slightly more likely to happen in private schools due to the direct connect between keeping the parents happy and the money coming in. There's no good answer, really.

61.904761904761905% of me is a huge nerd! How about you? 50%-69% - Dangerously nerdy...no make that dangeresque.

It's Talk like a pirate day, the song...

As much fun as this is, I do usually use google for real searches.

Who is taking sides?Well, other than me