Do you think it would be considered lazy and/or tacky to simply opt to keep my Christmas tree up all year round?
It still looks nice to me, and it really helps to bring the room together, if you will. Also, I don’t really have anyplace to put it once it’s been dismantled anyways, so what’s the harm in just leaving her be and spreading the love until it’s time to put presents underneath in another eleven months???
I discovered a new blog that has done quite a fine job at keeping my attention over the past few days that I thought I’d share…
If you’re looking for a good read, and you’re a science geek technologist like myself, then click away…
I finally had to kill it again today when it wouldn’t allow me to access any of my shared drives anymore. I’ll never understand how people can swear by this product – sure, it’s got a pretty interface, but maybe it was never intended to run on an independent box that just shuffles files back and forth. Why it still hasn’t managed to learn the difference between my desktop computer and any other PC on the Internet after using it for damn near a year, I’ll never know.
I don’t have the energy to find a replacement, so the Windows XP firewall is going to have to be good enough for now. Anybody have any opinions as far as what I might have a little better success with? I’m looking for firewall protection to go on a computer that basically just distributes Internet access to the rest of the house and holds a few other shared drives for movies and music and such…
Music Industry Must Respect Privacy of Filesharers
Ruling in Charter Case Smashes DMCA Subpoena Powers
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision today that will stop entertainment corporations from gaining access to the names of people using peer-to-peer (P2P) networks unless the companies file lawsuits against them and furnish actual evidence of copyright infringement. <<MORE>>
So I’ve been surfing around to the websites of various writers that I knew from back in the day in hopes of finding an idea or two for the redesign of my own site and sadly, I’ve come to only one shocking conclusion: most of them aren’t there anymore! Whether they legitimately left the business or their domain names merely got snagged out from under them and it didn’t seem to be worth the hassle to continue, the majority of the links under the Columns – Humor Writers in my bookmarks are now officially defunct. And not to mention that Dave Barry himself has officially “quit the biz” for the time being – nothing like being a mood killer, let me tell you!
On second thought, maybe I don’t want to all-out ditch the layout that I’ve worked so hard to develop anyways. Perhaps a little tweaking here and there would be just as effective as a full-blown facelift, and without half of the headache, either. I don’t know what I could change – it’s very difficult to consider asthetics when I rely so much on clipart to cover my lack of artistic ability anyways! Plus, the writing is supposed to be the focal point anyways…and then again, “You’ve gotta get ’em in the door before you can sell them any cheese…”
I’m officially torn – what do you think, America? (…and beyond…)
We had a topless protester at work today.
Ok, well she wasn’t actually on our floor, but we could see her out the window sitting down on the corner of Kennedy and Franklin by the park.
Apparently she was concerned about the circus or something…I don’t know – I wasn’t really paying attention to that part…
Ok – it took me over an hour, but I finally sat down and cleaned out the e-mail portion of Outlook at home. I believe there was something like six hundred unread messages sitting in my inbox, so it’s no wonder that I didn’t really even bother to try anymore! Nonetheless, I think that I have everything organized a little better now – newsletters, which make up the bulk of my mail these days, are going to separate folders, thus allowing my personal mail to actually stay near the top – so we’ll see…
In fact, Resolution #8: Keep up on the e-mail better in 2005!
You see, I’ve developed a really bad habit of simply ignoring mail these days, or at least the stuff that still comes in from Just Laugh. Now in my defense, I don’t reply to that stuff most of the time because we officially closed down six months ago – sign on the door and everything – and yet I continue to receive submissions and link suggestions and whatnot all the time! Nonetheless, I’m considering reopening a very small portion of the site with this new missive of mine for 2005, so maybe this would be a good opportunity to at the same time make it a little clearer that things are done around that front…but at the same time, yes – I’ll make it a point to be more polite and inform any new submissions of our current situation!
Next stop: Outlook’s address book …ugghh…
At their finest – here’s to hoping that I can keep them this year:
Ok, so we learned an important lesson over the weekend – be careful when making changes to the computer that feeds Internet access to everywhere else in the house! Long story short, I tried to update MySQL for some things I’ve been playing around with at work and ended up bringing down the house. Don’t ask me how … the wi-fi to my laptop still isn’t up and working, and I’m not making any more changes until that PC gets an upgrade itself…
So yeah – I spent my New Year’s Eve fighting with database software – woo hoo. I believe last year’s was occupied reading the latest Harry Potter book, so let’s just say that I’ve never been real big on New Year’s. Sure, I would’ve liked to go watch fireworks somewhere — other than from my punk neighbors who are still setting the things off at random intervals as I type — but at upwards of $50 a pop, that’s just a bit over my head! That and all of the drunkies out there, it just doesn’t seem worth it for me, so I spent the evening playing computer and watching It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie. Maybe next year will be more “exciting…”
But regardless, this is something that I wanted to put together with the end of the season upon us: Continue reading →
Three day weekend was very good – mucho sueño was had, legos were assembled, movies were watched – a nice, quiet Christmas at home.
I just finished nearly the last of the cookies this evening – the gingerbread turned out particularly delicious, surprisingly because I’ve never made it before…probably worth making another batch sometime soon. The final verdict will be decided tomorrow when I distribute them at work tomorrow along with my belated Christmas gifts.
Unfortunately, the cards aren’t coming along nearly as well, as it seems that the card stock that I used last year isn’t available anymore and I’ve yet to find anything worthwhile that allows the colors to come through as they should. Wasn’t there a huge epidemic years ago when everyone was making cards on their PCs instead of purchasing them at the store – what did you people print those on?! Maybe I’m just picky, but tonight the artist agreed that they shouldn’t go out on an inferior medium, so I guess my search continues tomorrow… 