How to speak like a Yakuza
As those of you who know me personally no doubt are tired of hearing, I want to own a PT Cruiser. If it turns out I end up getting one in white, I will seriously consider getting a vanity plate RMN-CL56. Anyone want to guess why? (those of you who know my reading habits should be able to guess this one pretty easily). Hint in the comments
Just noticed, this is my 101th post to JU! Now back to your regularly scheduled semi-political tirades... (I guess I'm going to have to find something else to blog on soon)
I'm reading through my blogs, as I do of a morning before going to work, and I see on Citizen Smash's blog a link to a Reuters' story about the failing health and possible demise of Yasser Arafat - at various times Palestinian head of Government, strongman, and terrorist; in parallel and in series. And I think to myself, "this is at least as much the end of an era as the fall of the Berlin Wall". I venture that there is nobody in Palestine who can take up the mantle of Yasser...
For my Disney-loving friends. Disney USB Flash Drives
I plan on expanding on this later, but I just watched Kerry's consession speech, and I realized that whatever else he may be, this man deserves my respect. Possibly in another time, with another world situation, he might even deserve my vote. But he managed to be graceful in defeat; which in politics is important.
It didn't occur to me when I was there, but I was ID checked at the polls (sort of); I had to sing the register. This obviously doesn't prevent people from regsitering multiple times, but it does reduce the chance of someone voting in my name
Just got back from my polling place - it had only one machine when in previous years it had 2... and turnout was up. Go Vote!
Don't count someone dead unjtil you've seen all the possible bodies
Don't count someone dead unjtil you've seen all the possible bodies
I found a tool from an outfit called MAPILab that allows you to integrate NNTP newsgroups into outlook. I've been playing with their MAPILab NNTP for a bit now, and while you have to make outlook jump through a bit of hoops to make it behave like a threaded newsreader, hide read msgs, etc, it's pretty nice. I'm not too terribly clear on whether they have built-in purging of messages or not - I turned to the autoarchive tool to do that for me. I'll post back in a few days afte...
A tech support story gone horribly wrong.
Neal Stephenson was "interviewed" by the readership of slashdot. And It Was Good.
Christopher Hitchens provides yet more proof of the potential WMD threat in Iraq. Subtitle (Saddam Hussein didn't have nuclear weapons - yet)