2008 January

The house overwhelmingly passed an aid package Tuesday that would speed rebates of $600 to $1,200 to most taxpayers.
what I really wish they’d speed is the end of their terms and the dissolution of the IRS. I don’t have to fund my own refund if I’m not being raped in the first place.

A high-stakes political debate over wiretapping and immunity for telecommunications companies has been pushed back by at least one day.  In two votes on Monday, senators failed to reach the 60-vote supermajority required to curb debate and force a vote on either of two wiretapping-related proposals, one favored by Republicans …
 – I urge you to [...]

NY State Employee Caught Selling Historic Docs On EBay
Hey, let’s see…. I stole some historic documents from the state library and I gotta figger what to do with them….  do I keep them for their historic value or do I sell them.
Yeah, sell them.   I don’t know nuthin bout history anyway.
Now… where do I sell [...]

Santa Clara (CA) - Sun’s Project Blackbox is shipping, literally:
Now called the Modular Datacenter S20, Blackbox is a datacenter built
into a 20 ft container that is sent to customers via ship or airplane.
I suppose the only question remaining is how many should I order.

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I get into work today, sit down at the desk, and The Boss pops up, telling me people are down and The Guy is in the network room.
With a description like that, it’s amazing that I didn’t fix it on the spot, by a quick Network Administratorial snap of the fingers.
The network looks ok and [...]

I am informed that tonight is the state of the union address.
Define `press conference‘
 -The sound of one man lying.

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I have two pets. This is not all that strange, except that the two pets are somewhat strange. My small family includes Marshall, a 5 year old black cocker spaniel, and his cat Ren (aka Satan), a 4 year old tabby the vet tells us is part lynx.
Ren
We had a somewhat more normal [...]

A man carrying a loaded gun passed through the security checkpoint at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport without incident this past Sunday, apparently because the gun wasn’t floating in a shampoo bottle or hidden in a shoe. He then remembered he was carrying it and brought it back to the TSA authorities, who promptly [...]

Yeah, yeah, I’m late…. so what?
I was born early but that was probably the last time it has happened since.
MLK Day is always a very special day at work.
This is because I work at a very special place.
Very special.
You know that old joke about hiring the handicapped?
We insist on it.
In order to work with us, [...]

or Pig English 2
My company needed an alternative to Adobe Acrobat Writer. Why?
It’s fat and bloated.
It’s too expensive at $280 or so.
It phones home.
We purchased a package from Scansoft for $50. All was well.
Last week Scansoft became unregistered. When we called Scansoft, they wanted us to PAY for service because THEIR software [...]