Archive for October, 2008

Peggy Noonan’s Back to Making Sense

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Peggy Noonan continues to make sense (or, rather, she’s started making sense again after she went around the bend for a bit). Today’s evidence:
A great moment: When the press was hitting hard on the pregnancy of Sarah Palin’s 17-year-old daughter, he did not respond with a politically shrewd “I have no comment,” or “We shouldn’t [...]

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QANTAS hasn’t had a crash…

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Quoted from Faulty Qantas jet tails rival across Pacific Ocean :

A Qantas airliner that discovered its weather radar was faulty tailed an Air New Zealand jet across the Pacific on a Wednesday flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, an official said.

Greeeeat….I can’t WAIT to fly on these jokers again.

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God I love this state…

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’nuff said

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Really Bad Error Messaging

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Take a look at the following error message from NewsGator (my RSS Reader) and tell me what it means:

Give up? It’s telling us that we’ve lost our network connection…instead of throwing a .NET error, they really ought to give a human-friendly message.

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Lovely reminder of my time in Tennessee

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I got a lovely reminder of my time in Tennessee this week:

In a 10-foot speed trap too…feh

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MyChauffeur to Suburbs: Drop Fucking Dead

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MyChauffeur,suburbs

Earlier today, I got emailed this lovely missive. Basically cutting off shared ride service to all the suburbs. Feh. Here’s my reply.
Matthew Tarpy wrote:

From: Matthew Tarpy
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:20 PM
To: ‘inquiries@mychauffeurchicago.com’
Subject: Discontinuation of shared ride fares to most [...]

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I am a Front Desk Agent

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Front Desk Agent,Hilton Brentwood

Quoted from I am a Front Desk Agent:

It is completely my fault that the blizzard shut down the airport and you have to sleep in a warm king-size bed while 5000 of your co-travellers are sleeping in benches at the airport. I am sorry.

I have to [...]

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Adobe Contribute CS4 * Refresh the list of available categories

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Adobe Contribute

Honestly, they should fix this, because the utility of Contribute is going to be in not having to log into my WP console.
Quoted from Adobe Contribute CS4 * Refresh the list of available categories :

Note: You can make changes only to the available categories [...]

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Astronauts To Vote From Space

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voting,NASA

Have to admit, this is pretty frickin’ sweet:
Quoted from Astronauts To Vote From Space:

Commander Edward Michael Fincke and Flight Engineer and Science Officer Greg Chamitoff are living and working onboard the International Space Station. Though they are 220 miles above Earth and orbiting at 17,500 miles per hour, they will still be able to participate [...]

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Contribute Test

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Adobe Contribute

This is a test of Adobe Contribute…anyone here? And how the heck do I create a new category in this thing?!?!?!

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