It looks like the coronation of King George I is proceeding apace.
CNN.com – Officials discuss how to delay Election Day – Jul 11, 2004
Category: Rant
I’m losing it
Are the basic concepts of boolean logic that foreign to people? And I’m not just talking about normal people – I’m talking about computer programmers, managers of computer programmers (former programmers themselves), and quality assurance testers.
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Bait and Switch
Today I had to make yet another concession to advanced age – I’m getting reading glasses. Actually, the optometrist came up with the same prescription that he came up with last time, but last time he basically said “You can take them or leave them”, and this time he gave a harder sell. Of course, having just spent half an hour playing Toucan on my Palm Tungsten in his waiting room, my eyes were a little stressed, so it wasn’t that hard to sell me.
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Yet another reason to HATE Time Warner
As if I didn’t have enough reasons already. One of the best things about having a TiVo is that I can record the live Tour de France stages and watch them when I get home, instead of the half-hour summaries that I sometimes got to see back in the years BT (Before TiVo).
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In other news…
I noticed that a very large proportion of the comment spam I get is all on one blog entry, number 20. So a quick
update mt_entry set entry_allow_comments = 0 where entry_created_on < now() - interval '180 days' and entry_author_id = 2;
and now nobody can comment on entries that are older than 180 days. I'm just wondering if I should do the same with the other blog authors.