Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
This entry is posted at 8:20 local (12:20 GMT), but the the index.rdf entry will show the date as
<dc:date>2004-09-29T08:20:00-05:00</dc:date>
That seems to imply that the GMT offset is 5 hours, when (thanks to daylight savings time) it’s really 4 hours. So should MovableType put the current offset in there, or should anybody attempting to parse that file have to know about DST?
Thanks to Rone, I will, as he says, say goodbye to my free time, my productivity, and my life as I know it. And say hello to a stunningly addictive game. My only hope is that they never bring it out for Palm OS.
On Saturday at Bay Creek Paddle Center’s end of year sale, I saw several people getting into or out of canoes and kayaks made by Swift Canoe & Kayak. It took a strong effort of will, but I didn’t refer to a single one of them as a “Swift Boat Veteran”.
Read this for a taste of what it’s like to be a maintenance programmer: Friday Feature: You’re all Morons. Read it quick, because I bet it will be taken down as soon as the honchos at Star Wars Galaxies find it.
My lusers aren’t as stupid as his, but what they don’t have in teenaged arrogance and stupidity they make up for in type-A personalities and ability to throw around purchasing power. “Oh, your last release had a bug in it? I guess we’ll take our $45 million contract somewhere else then instead. I bet your competitor doesn’t have bugs.” I bet they do, fuckwit.
I just want to lie here and sleep for two days, but I can’t convince Vicki to spoon feed me. After buying 
my new kayak, I of course had to fix the canoe rack.
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