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Month: June 2002

  • Sunday, geeky Sunday

    Yeah, I totally failed to do the Friday Five again. It was a busy day.

    Now that I’ve downed a mug of steaming hot cocoa, I’m ready to take on the day’s tasks: Assemble the other two (of four) future Enco workstations in anticipation of the specialist’s arrival tomorrow morning; swap out the video card in what used to be the Entercom webmaster’s computer; make some progress on the standby server for Entercom’s future webserver; hook up the PC for a new NRK salesperson; type up plans for a proper Entercom webhosting facility.

    Not necessarily in that order, but pretty close. Here’s hoping your day is a bit more fun.

  • Call it a purposeful lack of religion.

    With enough time, practice and effort I hope to be as clever a writer as Emily, who has this to say about defending your right not to have a God:

    But what bothers me is that my total lack of religion is perceived as a blank space to be filled with some god or another. Au contraire, my not-religion is just as firm in my mind as religion is to those who follow it. I’m not so much an atheist/agnostic as someone who has no doctrine about the theological and devotes herself instead to the here and now (is that what secular humanists do? I forget). The trouble is in defending this way of life to people who wish to convert me. They see it as a lack of something necessary, while I see it as a lack of something unnecessary.

    I’m going to carry that last sentence with me for the rest of my days. Thanks, Emily!
    “mormons”

  • One nation, with liberty.

    Not that I really wanted to get involved in this one, but reading one of the news stories on Yahoo! set my teeth to grinding. Here’s the bit of nonsense in question:

    Senate Chaplain Lloyd Ogilvie joined the fray in his opening prayer on the Senate floor on Thursday, saying: “Almighty God …. We acknowledge the separation of sectarianism and state, but affirm the belief that there is no separation between God and state.”

    Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat, thanked Ogilvie, and said: “He spoke for all of us. We are one nation under God.”

    Uh, Lloyd? Tom? Last time I checked, “freedom of religion” means that I don’t have to acknowledge your God, and my government (that would be you) shouldn’t be forcing your God down my throat.

    A phrase added to the Pledge half a century ago is being removed because it violates church/state separation. Cool.
    Yahoo! – Lawmakers Denounce…

  • One-upsmanship, spousal style

    My wife was mildly amused by the “Karel is” Google search results. On a whim, we decided to try her name instead. Sadly, “Wendilynn is” returns almost no results at all, and none worth using.

    “Wendi is”, however, indicates that she’s much more interesting than I am. (Hey, I’m a robot, remember?)

    Wendi is also the Editor-in-Chief of the RITRO.com community, a content-oriented site based on Real Insight Through Raw Opinion.
    Wendi is a charter member of the Belly Dancing Troup, The Goddess Babes, in Taos, New Mexico.
    Wendi is an experienced model and her modeling is never “over-posed”.
    Wendi is a founding member of the Human Rights Network of
    Aotearoa-New Zealand, launched at the same ceremony.
    Wendi is a well know (sic) international speaker and trainer, and conducts trainings and seminars in Europe, UK, and USA.
    Wendi is a young mother raising her 3-year-old daughter alone.
    Wendi is the most important person in my life.
    Wendi is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists, and a popular speaker for trainings, conventions and shows.
    Wendi is also a member of the Formative Years Foundation Board.
    Wendi is (a) member of Classic Folk, a folk group formed through the Brampton Folk Club.
    Wendi is also instrumental in testing our sites and making sure that everything works.
    Wendi is here in Austria currently, studying at the EPU in Schlaining.
    Wendi is a native of Connecticut having grown up in Newington.
    Wendi is terrific!
    Wendi is a recent addition to Chi Delta Mu. (Link provided for amusement’s sake, but not for the faint of heart. Um.)
    Wendi is way more than a devout southern baptist…she is a sold out disciple of Christ.
    Wendi is “crazy in love” with an amazing man who treats her how she has always dreamed of being treated.
    Wendi is a certified massage therapist.
    Wendi is another “teacher to be” in our group.
    Wendi is still an apprentice though, and her skills are somewhat raw and at times unfocused.
    Wendi is a 21-year-old Africian-American lesbian.
    Wendi is a seasoned entertainer from the Country and is very versatile.
    Wendi is very sweet and loves kids.
    Wendi is a 29-year-old visual display artist from Iowa who describes herself as an ’80s child.
    Wendi IS the most glorious, luminescent one. (It then reads, “I am her slave.”)
    Wendi is usually inspired by a specific theme.
    WENDI IS THE BESTEST IN THE WORLDEST.

    And most of those are from just the first four pages of results! Wow, what a woman I married. I’m so proud of her… all except for that CDM bit. Um.

  • Crazy Humpday Indeed

    So how has my workday progressed? Very interestingly.

    I met my intern today. Yes, a couple of times a week for the next six weeks I’ll have my very own lackey. Mind you, he’s supposed to be gaining valuable work experience and knowledge, so I’m going to expose him to as many things as possible during the time we’ll have. Should be interesting.

    The corporate website, www.entercom.com, should be hosted here in our facility by some time late this week. There’s a laundry-list of things Corporate wants me to do so that everyone will feel comfortable with this situation. I get to provide a standby server, syslogging and as much firewalling as I can throw into the mix, and soon. Should be interesting.

    Next week we’re having an Enco expert come out and upgrade four of our production workstations to bigger, faster machines. I get to pre-assemble them, of course. Turns out, though, that the motherboards we bought don’t match the processors we have. The heatsink for the 1GHz Pentium III doesn’t even fit in the space available on the motherboard. We probably have to buy four new motherboards, and soon. Should be interesting.

  • Blogsnob Snafu

    So I come in this morning, fire up Mozilla and go to my website to see… this. (Warning, kinda big image.)

    Turns out that the little “bs” Blogsnob link button was replaced with… this. (Warning, sorta big image.)

    According to the BlogSnob website, “If you’ve noticed a slowdown in your page load or anything abnormal, please bear with us… Someone edited the adtemplates.

    “There is no security problem. don’t worry.”

    What, me worry? I’m just having fun showing off screenshots of weird CSS rendering! Muahahaha!

    (Until BlogSnob gets this fixed, I’m pulling the ad. Cute screenshots are one thing, but that’s a helluva waste of bandwidth for anyone visting my newly-resurrected website.)

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