Voter fraud? What voter fraud? Ohhh… The fraud that you are committing
Technically old news by now, but it never hit the mainstream media, so far as I know. According to Salon.com, a group fronted by the Republicsn ultra-Right Wing faction “The Tea Party”, in an attempt...
View ArticleSo much SPAM!
I was curious as to how much spam I actually get in a day, so rather than delete it as it came in, I just let it accumulate for a day. There were 90, most of which came in dribs … Continue reading →
View ArticleOracle Java: Just say no?
Java. I do not like it, and I never have. Originally, back when Sun Microsystems owned it, I disliked it because the user interface of applications written in it did not match the “look and feel” of...
View ArticleTest post, changing domain hosts
Nothing really exciting here, I’m in the process of changing my domain / web hosting provider and testing to make sure nothing broke. The move is complete. I was hosting at Pair.com, but at nearly...
View ArticleAn interesting tea
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, so here’s something new: Tea. I like tea. Loose leaf preferably. I’ll drink tea made from a teabag if I have to, but it mostly tastes like paper once...
View ArticleLast day at Liberty, again
Today was my last day at Liberty Mutual. And what a day it was. Apparently, there was a change of some kind in one of the data centers over the weekend, and it broke a lot of stuff, call volume …...
View ArticleNew gig
I start a new temp gig tomorrow. It’s a six month contract at Maine Medical Center’s IT Help Desk through ProSearch, Inc, of Portland, ME. Both the hiring manager at MMC and the recruiter at ProSearch...
View ArticleComputer savyness in non-IT users
Many IT professionals bemoan the apparent lack of computer knowledge in the users they support or otherwise provide services for. Not even ten years ago, I agreed with that – users should know more...
View ArticleLaw: Who controls your cloud data?
This is an interesting situation, and one that I think does need to be addressed in an international forum. When dealing with data “in the cloud”, who controls it? Does it depend on the country of...
View ArticlePrototyping for a site
In case anyone is actually monitoring this blog, there will be what looks like random changes and features popping up as I'm experimenting with WordPress to see if it is featurefull enough to run a...
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