2009 January

As I might have mentioned, we got a Google box at work.  No one is quite sure why.
Well, actually one person is sure: my boss.  She informs me that the box is to index the help files and tips the IT department has put together over the years.
By some estimates this box cost three grand.
Apparently [...]

My friend in Graves County, Kentucky, has been trying to keep in touch and let me know how things are going for her.
We started with days of storms, no power, no heat, no nothing.  A county of sixty thousand without power.  The National Guard is there.  Shelters are set up but there’s no power or [...]

To no one’s surprise, the Illinois Senate unanimously voted to remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office on Thursday after an FBI investigation revealed he tried to sell a U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder.

Ok, ok, moreso.
A county of sixty thousand is without electricity (it might be Graves County but I’m not positive).  The National Guard is there.  They are running out of water.   There are shelters, but they’re running out of supplies.  No fuel, therefore no pumps for water.
Trees and limbs are down all over the place.   Yesterday [...]

Based upon Obama’s history, as well as attorney general nominee Eric Holder, there’s good reason for concern over the Second Amendment.
Holder voted against the repeal of the DC gun ban.  Now let’s face it - the DC gun ban is unconstitutional regardless of what you think about guns.   Holder has stated publicly that the Second [...]

Original/longtime keyboardist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, Billy Powell (56) died yesterday from a heart attack.  He had a history of cardiac problems.
Play on, brother.
[at least he didn't choke on milk]

From the BBC: A top doctor has admitted her part in hoodwinking a leading medical journal after inventing a medical condition called “cello scrotum”.
Journal editors are also examining her other entries, such as sponge-on-the-brain, scrotus itchus, brain pain, and naughty nipples.
Also from the BBC:  A Sudanese man has been jailed for seventeen years as a [...]

Ok, there are people reading this (or skipping it) who are making tin foil hat references at about this moment.  If they have skipped it, good.  If they are still reading, why bother?
I read a lot.  Information is good.  I don’t necessarily believe everything I read but it’s good to gather information.  I’ve always been [...]

Tonight I watched part of a show on the Science channel about the Bikini Atoll.  No, this is not some sort of weird place to pay taxes on swimwear; it’s an island.
Apparently the US military decided it needed to do some serious nuclear bomb research and somehow decided on this area.  There was film of [...]

I’m having a bugger of a time this weekend, getting my blog to cooperate.  I have no idea what’s wrong but I’m losing a lot of information, when I can get to the blog in the first place.
Let me state that I love Lockergnome.  I am privileged to be a blogger here.  I try to [...]