Posted in mybayareagarden, tagged advice, corn, maize, mybayareagarden on June 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The corn is as low as an elephant’s toe? Just 2 or 3 weeks ago, it was about 70 centimeters and still going strong!
I saved a draft of this post a couple of weeks ago, and really want to get it out there for my garden buddies who may just be getting started [...]
Posted in advice, cats, critters, health, real life, recommended, tagged advice, cats, critters, health, real life, recommended on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Plz! No paparazzi at naptime!
Our bestest buddy the Booster is doing really well and has regained much of the weight she lost this past fall, when we feared the worst. None of the tests we ran turned up anything: she was pronounced incredibly healthy for a 13.5 year old kitteh, but she [...]
Posted in 746, advice, hijack, rant, real life, recommended, sysadmin, tagged advice, hijack, rant, real life, recommended, sysadmin on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After a long negotiation process between my DNS provider and the registrar of the domain thieves, virtual.net is back where it has belonged since early 1993: with me. Huzzah!
My advice, in retrospect, is that if your domain is hijacked, immediately file with ICANN, over the protests of your registrar if necessary. Fortunately I got my [...]
Posted in 2008, advice, culture, election, politics, tagged 2008, advice, culture, election, politics on November 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There’s a completely fascinating analysis of the American political scene, and the 2008 race, at the Atlantic Monthly. Interestingly enough, unlike much of their content, it’s available to nonsubscribers– are they backing a particular candidate? Regardless, the author, senior editor Andrew Sullivan, makes a point which I, as a barely-Boomer, found to [...]
Posted in art, career, design, humor, music, web 2.0, tagged advice, art, career, design, humor, web 2.0 on November 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of the professions near and dear to my hear is that of graphic design. I’m still not sure if it’s Brigadoon lost or a bullet dodged, but either way, I pay attention when I can. I recently encountered a gem of a Laugh Out Loud moment courtesy of Speak Up, namely [...]
Posted in advice, firefox, mac os x, recommend, security, sysadmin, tiger, tagged advice, firefox, mac os x, recommend, security, sysadmin, tiger on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been on a grand unification quest to find all the duplicates and old versions and generally clean the heck up on my desktop Mac, in preparation for a clean full “reference” backup and then a Leopard upgrade. I’m hearing enough security kerfuffle about the new (dis)improved firewall on Leopard; that I’m feeling [...]
Posted in advice, tagged advice on September 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
…lo, these many years ago:
*STOP LIVING LIKE VEAL!*
Just sayin'.
Posted in advice, career, quotes, real life, self-programming, tagged advice, career, quotes, real life, self-programming on September 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Following links a couple of days ago, I found a really compelling and honest account of someone firing their employee. I didn't want to close the window, because one of the phrases was resonating so strongly with me.
This morning I summarized the teaching I found there and printed out two lines that [...]
Posted in advice, career, tagged advice, career on September 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
An amazing, amusing, and appalling example of career advice, via a friend’s livejournal:
1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/.
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Take their “Career Matchmaker” questions.
4. Post the top umpty results
5. Bold the jobs you've had
6. Star the ones you've seriously considered
7. XX the ones which would absolutely not suit you
cat /tmp/fu
Taxidermist [...]
Posted in activism, commerce, critters, ethics, warning, tagged advice, commerce, critters, ethics, petfood recall, warning on August 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
…it’s time to change your mind.
When confronted with evidence that recalled petfood with new UPC labels over the recalled labels was being sold in their stores, Wal-Mart had a number of choices.
“That’s terrible, we will check into it immediately!”
“We doubt it, but we will check on it.”
“It must be an isolated case, we would never [...]
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