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What fabulous news to greet my Tuesday morning - Leopard ships on October 26th!

Time to spend some serious cash Oh, wait… I don’t have any…

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So I woke up this morning and was pounced upon by Guinevere (hey, I still like using your old handle, okie?) to let me know that she and her sister have started a non-profit organization named Pencils for Peace. Pencils for Peace is an organization dedicated to providing schoolbooks, supplies and anything else to the children of Afghanistan.

Folks, this is a wonderful cause. One of the battle fronts in the War on Terror is helping to stop terrorism at the source. Terrorism thrives and breeds from this poverty and lack of education. This is a wonderful cause and I certainly hope that you will give some time to come up with any items or monetary donations to help them out.

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From Digg: Microsoft is going through it’s email and phone lists asking people to support their opposition to California A.B. 1668 - “Open Document Format, Open Source”. by writing to the California Assemblymen involved in this bill (contact info in the link). Let’s see if Digg can raise as much support for the CA ODF bill as they can raise opposition.

Me: I often wonder how much of HSPD-12 is due to Microsoft’s lobbying efforts in Washington. I find it quite interesting that all government agencies are moving to a single forest setup with Active Directory driving the train. The funny part is - they require smartcard integration, which is not much more than a hack for some Microsoft technologies.

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You’re now seeing us at the new host. Welcome back.

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I still can’t shake this dastardly cough. It was gone for a while today – well, most of the day… but now, it’s back. I’ve gone in the cough drop direction to see if I can shake it long enough to get some sleep tonight, but we’ll see how it goes.

I’ve had a lot on my mind with regards to websites lately. Taitai pointed out that we own quite a few domain names. That’s true, we do. Some of them are just plain defunct. Some of them are itching for activity. I have numerous ideas swimming through my head these days on podcasts; one particular online gazette-style magazine that some of you may remember; what to do with Galaxycow… oh, the thoughts just never end. There’s a lot to do and a lot to produce, but such little time.

There are two things that stop me from doing the gazette site again. These days, it seems that ripping off pictures and other arts and/or intellectual property is the New Norm. I don’t necessarily want to provide a site that could be used for people to rip off the work of other folks, but then again, I think that the site would work again in this day and age. However, it requires plenty of time to maintain and write for – a problem I’ve dealt with unsuccessfully in the past. These days I might be able to make more time, but I doubt it.

Therein lies the second problem. I would need staff. I need interested staff with time to write the columns they want to write. I had staff before, but that staff didn’t have the time. I need staff with time and passion to do it. That’s just pretty hard to find when you can’t bring money to the table.

Bah. You know, when I shut the thing down before, I knew that I would come to this thought again someday. I knew that I would get the itch again. I just need to convince myself not to go there again I suppose.

In other news – I upgraded this Wordpress to the 2.1.x series, so that’s why it’s reverted back to the default skin. Sorry about that, but I need to find a new one anyway.

Thoughts, anyone?

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I think my left ear is deformed.  I cannot keep an ear bud in it.  It keeps slipping out.  Help.

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Grr… no one told me the feed from the Asia Albums site was broken.  How dare you… all of you
P.S. Now that I’ve developed a miniature script that fixes iWeb permissions after publishing to this server, you can bet I’ll do more work with iWeb and that site in the future. That was the one big thing that was holding me from playing with it more.

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This dark comedy of errors could only happen in real life. At least it has a happy ending… somewhat.

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Please go check out that song I posted about earlier.  Especially you, Jennifer.  I think you would like it.  It seems just the right amount of saucy for you

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It seems that when everyone else gets back to the office, suddenly, the crap starts to fly again.

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