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  • Sufficiently Screened

    I have four mobile phones charging on my desk right now. This is part of the impending migration from Service A to Service B for myself, Kylanath and the rugrats.

    My “current” phone is also perched on the desk, as per normal when I’m not out-and-about.

    That’s five mobile phones on one desk.

    Okay, that seems excessive. It’s also temporary, so while I’m amused at this little pile of technology on display I also know that this, too, shall pass. There’s nothing to worry about. I’m not that geeky…

    Wait. In my backpack you’ll find one 10″ full tablet and a Nook Color. (And a camera.)

    And in this bedroom there are two full computers plus my laptop.

    …They say that the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. Ahem.

  • Aw, dagnabbit.

    So much for once-per-week posting.

    I utterly, completely, and totally missed last week. Sorry about that. It was busy! Work was nuts! I got my tax refunds and spent lots of money! The fruits of that spending arrive today (probably)!

    What did I get? A QNAP 219p II home NAS device with a pair of 3-terabyte Seagate drives to fill it, and… new phones for everybody. My first smartphone in many years, Kylanath’s first full-on smartphone, plus new feature phones for the kids. It’s going to be a fun week getting all that set up, and I’m sleepless with excitement about it.

    No, really. I’ve been so keyed up for the last few days that my insomnia has run rampant. Ugh.

    At any rate. That’s the news, and there’ll be more to come as things progress. And hey, I’m taking Thursday & Friday off from work to celebrate my impending forty-first natal anniversary, so there’s that…

  • Eleven Years Of Grey Duck Dot Net

    I registered this domain eleven years ago today.

    Time flies when you’re… doing whatever it is you do when you start up a blog, then partially abandon it several years later, eh?

  • I’m the only one who’ll notice.

    When building the comic, sometimes I fret about the fact that I don’t have a set style guide for things like (let’s say) the struts that connect word balloons within a comic panel. They tend to come out in varying widths and not always aligned perfectly. Shouldn’t I set some rules, make sure everything is uniform and neat and tidy?

    Then I remember that this is just a silly webcomic read by maybe thirty people around the world (on a good day) and I should just relax…

  • When Mail Merge Blows Up

    Don’t you just hate it when your mail merge falls completely apart?

    That’s a piece of lovely scam email purporting to be from Verizon, which it actually isn’t because my Verizon account’s linked to my other email address. Oh, that and the links you see there don’t actually go to Verizon’s website. (I wonder if “ridgecrestcommunitycalendar.com” knows they’ve been hacked. Hmm.)

    So, if you ever wanted to see the guts of a phishing scam message, well, here you go. Enjoy.

  • By The Numbers

    This post marks 2000 entries to the journal.

    On June 26th this journal will be effectively 11 years old. Now, we achieved this partly by importing some back-dated entries from the previous website, but there you have it.

    We’ve racked up nearly 4000 approved comments, and let’s not speculate on how much spam we’ve deleted in over a decade.

    It’s worth mentioning that since posting dropped off precipitously after I lost my job with Entercom six years ago, the bulk of these 2000 posts took place in the first half of this site’s existence. C’est la vie, I guess.

    I have more content queued but when I noticed in the WordPress Dashboard that there were 1999 posts in the system, I figured I should mark an occasion somehow. And here we are.

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