Monthly Archives: February 2006


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Trackbacks – Or Lack Thereof

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Today Kasia noted that she hadn’t gotten a proper trackback to her blog since August. Forgetting that I had trackbacks active, I took a look at my TypePad control panel: I got one in December… but I have only been pinged 54 times over five years… and I’ve had at least 54 spam pings come in over the years that had to be deleted by hand I’ve also noticed that Steve also pulled’m from the ‘Goat, but I can’t remember when that happened; since I link to him a few times a month, it shows how often I’ve used trackbacks in my own posts. Screw that.

For what it’s worth, I’ve had 888 posts [excluding this one] and 3367 comments [of which half are probably me!] but I’m pretty much done with trackbacks…

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Enough Already: Shooting Edition

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What the hell? Cheney causes a hunting accident and there’s suddenly “the people have a right to know” debate? How do you figure that? I mean, is there even a reason to bring that kinda statement up? Think of it this way: if he were bowling and someone was standing behind him and got hit with the ball, would that be “news”? If he was at a batting cage and the bat slipped back enough to hit someone in the cage, would that be “news”? If they were playing golf and the dude didn’t get off the fairway when Chaney shouted Fore! and he got clipped, would that be “news”? It would be a joke to be replayed on SNL – shouldn’t be “news”… not for days and days.

They were hunting. The dude that got shot moved out of position without announcing himself – as he was supposed to – and got shot. There doesn’t need to be a cover up for this, because it’s not news. If the Veep was hunting quail and shot him with a silencer or melee’d him until he bled, that would be news. Of course now there will be some kinda of investigation and the press will try to shine some light on Cheney’s prostate… I don’t care, either way. I just can’t believe there’s a “right to information” issue being kicked around here. It defies logic.

The bigger news here should be the lobby for the NRA – if they were really that powerful, shouldn’t the Veep have been lugging an AK-47 for hunting or something? Just a shotgun?

Someone’s check musta bounced…

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When Knowing Isn’t Half The Battle

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The new SDA is available at the local T-Mobile. Yet, as I told Anna, I’m trying to convince myself that I don’t need it, and I told Steve, I’m doing everything in my power to keep my fat ass in my [office] chair. Here’s the punch line: it’s because I bought a new vacuum yesterday.

Um. Like, w00t or something?
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Negative Times a Negative Equals a Positive?

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MSNBC: “Now in the West insulting the prophet is allowed, but questioning the Holocaust is considered a crime,” President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said. “We ask, why do you insult the prophet? The response is that it is a matter of freedom, while in fact they (who insult the founder of Islam) are hostages of the Zionists. And the people of the U.S. and Europe should pay a heavy price for becoming hostages to Zionists,” he declared.

Maybe my math is off… but since when does insulting one man – be it prophet or otherwise – carry the same criminal weight as the imprisonment and mass murder of millions of people?
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You Have a Meeting in Building 7

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Microsoft: Over the next three years, Microsoft will add 14 buildings and a total of 3.1 million square feet (288,000 square meters) to its corporate campus in Redmond, Wash., enough to provide office space for approximately 12,000 people. Seven of the buildings will be new construction; the other seven are existing buildings that Microsoft recently purchased.

And so another practical joke source dies…
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Halo 2 for the PC

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Xbox: Master Chief Dual-Wields His Way to Windows Vista “Halo 2,” the award-winning sequel to the instant classic “Halo: Combat Evolved” to make its PC debut on the Windows Vista platform “Halo 2,” the game that redefined first-person combat and multiplayer action for millions of gamers worldwide, is set to explode onto PCs exclusively for Windows Vista. “Halo 2” for Windows Vista will be developed by a dedicated Microsoft Game Studios team in partnership with Bungie Studios.

In a word: w00t.

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Oi Vey

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MSNBC.com: “Defending the prophet should continue worldwide,” Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, told the crowd. “Let (U.S. Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice, (President) Bush and all the tyrants shut up: We are a nation that can’t forgive, be silent or ease up when they insult our prophet and our sacred values.”

“Today, we are defending the dignity of our prophet with a word, a demonstration but let George Bush and the arrogant world know that if we have to … we will defend our prophet with our blood, not our voices,” Nasrallah added.

Er… we didn’t do this, so why are we getting blamed for it? Oh yeah, because we suggested that people not kill each other over a fuckin’ cartoon! Our bad.

On another note, can anyone point me to the Islamic dogma that clearly states: “if our prophet is depicted in a satire comic we should kill every non-Muslim we see in protest”?

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Blurry Vision

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I can’t focus. The ongoing “fury” of the referees from the Super Bowl continues… looks like it’s not just Seattle-ites that are pissed about it – I’ve heard that the media has picked up the story and reported enough about it that the NFL plans to have a statement. Guys? Don’t do it. Unless you’re going to make the whole game a do-over or have uncovered that the refs have been bought – a la the 1919 White Sox and from Tommy’s research, it should be a cheap buy – nothing, and I mean nothing, you say can help the situation. “Bad calls? That’s football!” is not going to help matters any. Just shut up and wait for Super Bowl XLI and make sure it never happens again.

And what the fuck, Pittsburgh? You won the game and you burn your own city? In celebratation? What the hell is wrong with you people? You yellow pants wearing jackasses. Grow up.

Then there’s the cartoon thing. That shows no sign of going away quietly… the radical and militant Muslims have grabbed hold of it now and are helping to spin it out of control. Attacking governments over what independent newspapers print will only end in chaos and bloodshed. It’s only a matter of time until we get sucked into it. People should be kissing Bush’s hairy bean bag for once – if he keeps his sights on local issues, he can’t bumble it, and that’s a wonderful blessing in this debacle. Yesterday I read a story on Reuters about one of the protests that had a lot of “Death to America” signs flying… Um, they know that we’re not in this debacle, right? Our state department be out there with that message, I think.

Yep: no focus whatsoever.

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Not A Target

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Reuters.com: Pakistani Islamists from Jamiat Ulma-e-Pakistan group burn Danish, Norwegian and French flags during a rally in Lahore February 3, 2006.

We’re not being blamed for something, for a change… how refreshing. The fact that this is all over a cartoon is rather strange and scary – I mean WWI was started by an assassination of an obscure Royal figure… could one drawing spark another multi-nation war?

Could be.
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Xbox 360 Non Rumors

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Gamerscoreblog: Top Ten Bogus Rumors About the Xbox 360 – Around these halls, people love rumors in the same way that we love American Idol. No substance or meaning, but crazy fun to watch (especially when people make fools of themselves).

It is crazy fun to watch – I can’t believe people believed any of the stuff on this list…

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Tis the Season?

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FOXSports.com: Pittsburgh linebacker Joey Porter kept up his verbal barrage against the Seahawks, saying Thursday the Steelers will be so physical in the Super Bowl they will try to make Seattle quit playing. […] The Seahawks aren’t accustomed to Porter’s outbursts, as the Steelers and most of the AFC teams are, and Farrior suggested that might account for the stir created by Porter’s words.

Not accustomed to it? Who would be? I mean is this guy always this big of an asshole, or is it just for the playoffs? I mean, he accused the officials of cheating during the Colts game… his own teammate had to shut him up.

One other quote that stood out to me: Porter said he wouldn’t have said anything if Stevens hadn’t talked.

Hah – right! – this guy dude has been yapping non-stop for two days, to anyone that would listen, standing on the mountain that he’s created out of a molehill… pft.

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AAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIGHHHHHHHHHH!

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Amazon: What is a Plog?? Your Amazon.com Plog is a personalized web log that appears on your customer home page. Every person’s Plog is different (hence the name) and just like a blog, your Plog is sorted in reverse chronological order. Each post also gives you the opportunity to provide feedback to the sender as to whether you liked the post or not. This feedback loop means your Plog becomes even more relevant and interesting over time. Your Plog will appear if you are logged into our web site and is visible only to you.

*sob*

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Symbol Shuffle!

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Other the years, I’ve had to work a bit to keep my stock portfolio up to date, as company’s symbols change. I mean, sure, IBM has traded as IBM since its inception, but not all companies are so lucky… Krispy Kreme started on one of the exchanges as KREM and is now KKD on another. I once owned Mapquest… that was like playing Twister. Mapquest got bought by AOL which merged with Time Warner and then got shoved off as AOL again, and well, I dunno what it trades as today – I unloaded it a while ago, and at a loss at that.

One company that has been fun to follow is a place that I used to work at – it’s been such a strange road that it’s almost like whistle blowing, except it isn’t.
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