Oddball Update

Over the last week, during which I have been extremely busy working with Windows night and day, I have repeatedly had the feeling that certain portions of this OS were designed by a bunch of toads.

I don’t often write about politics on this blog. Okay, to be more specific, I never do. One post does not a trend make, so I haven’t created a “Politics” category or anything, but this one post simply had to be written.

This year, the Major League Baseball season opened in Tokyo, as it has several times now over the last decade. But Furman Bisher of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution doesn’t like it. Why?

“I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact,” Starck told Die Zeit weekly newspaper.

2008 is barely a month old (barely four days old if you live in China) and it’s already costing us a great deal of money.
First there were the rats in our attic. Well, more like rat, singular.

Last week, I decided to try migrating to Windows Vista again. Yeah, yeah, save it.

Another ear post?! Lord almighty. No, today’s post actually references the ungodly noise blasting from what seems like every corner of our quiet little neighborhood today.

It was an interesting weekend.
I worked half a day on Saturday, doing “post-launch” tasks in the wake of getting the new websites online.

Comcast missed my third CableCARD service call today. This is the second appointment in a row where the tech just plain hasn’t shown up, despite assurances to the contrary. Last time I had the 5pm-9pm window. Today I had the 1pm-5pm window.

The Internet is enabling the proliferation of a culture entirely bereft of tact.
Think of it. Online, you can be completely anonymous and almost entirely unaccountable for your actions. This kind of anonymity can be a great thing.