C’mon, you know you’ve always wanted to own a genuine bona-fide racing duck, right?
I’ve already ordered mine. Get ’em while you can…
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Wonderduck’s Halloween Treat
While my little webcomic continues to amuse a couple dozen people twice per week with a few panels of silliness at a time, friend Wonderduck has spent some serious effort and come up with quite a Halloween treat. Enjoy, won’t you?
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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.
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BlogBooker
Given that I’m probably going to be retiring some of my hosted sites soon, BlogBooker is the most useful link I’ve seen in weeks.
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Failure To Fire
Not owning cats certainly hasn’t kept me from enjoying the webcomic Two Lumps. Likewise, not owning guns seems not to be interfering with my enjoyment of the newest enterprise from the same creative team: Failure To Fire.
If you like guns, you’ll probably enjoy it even more than I do. Give it a look-see, won’t you?
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August of Two Thousand Twelve
Well, I almost let an entire calendar month go by, didn’t I? Whoopsie. So much for getting back on the horse… again.
So! Notable things about this month? One, I managed to take an entire calendar week off from work for the first time since I started work. (This doesn’t count stretches of unemployment, mind you.) Last time I scheduled a week-long vacation, my boss got canned and I spent half the week in the office anyway. This time? Peace and quiet.
What’s really cool about the time off is that I didn’t actually waste it all. Instead, I used half the week to de-junk my living space a bit. A couple bags of trash went out, sure, but the really big part involved having Green Century come by on Thursday to haul away several 17-gallon bins’ worth of computer paraphernalia. I’d accumulated 15 years’ worth of working-in-IT and taking-my-work-home junk, like old PCI cards and cables and drives and drives and cables and plastic fiddly bits and empty chassis and printers and you get the picture. Finding, sorting, piling, and staging all of this took up the first two days of my vacation.
A lot of work to do on a so-called “break,” yes, but utterly worth it. I reclaimed a lot of storage and floor space, found some nifty things during the sorting that I wanted to store more safely, and my physical possessions total a few hundred pounds less now than they did before. Sweet!
The second notable event this month? My son turned 20, mid-month. Twenty years old! It’s amazing, and he’s turned out to be pretty damned cool. I have the best kids, I tell ya.
