Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • QotD: My News Sources

    October 3, 2007
    Uncategorized

    What sources do you count on for national news coverage?  How about international and local news? I read the BBC World Service for international news. BBCWS, Newsweek, and NPR provide US national news. The Athens Banner-Herald and the Red and Black provide local news. As a computer geek, I follow about 150 different news sources…

  • links for 2007-10-03

    October 3, 2007
    Bookmarks

    Basic instincts | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books (tags: Psychology Evolution brain biology)

  • New Outlook

    September 30, 2007
    Fashion, from LiveJournal, Photography

    Yesterday, I bought new glasses. Its not much of a change, really. Black wire rims. The arms are thicker and more plastic. Its the same professional look I was sporting with the last pair, but the lenses are smaller and closer to my eyes. The nose pieces ride higher on my nose. I likey. As…

  • A More Usable Usability

    September 29, 2007
    Blackboard Vista, Internet, University

    Previously I have seen usability describing ease of using a web site. These four essences of usability are interesting. I believe that to satisfy customers, a Web site must fulfill four distinct needs: Availability: A site that’s unreachable, for any reason, is useless. Responsiveness: Having reached the site, pages that download slowly are likely to…

  • No, I’ve Never Lived in Pittsburgh or Pittsburg

    September 28, 2007
    from LiveJournal, Humor / Weird, Sports

    Its football season. With football season come the remarks that I look like Franco Harris. I think they really are saying I am fat big…

  • Overheard: A New Coworker?

    September 28, 2007
    Overheard, Work

    Someone brought a baby. There are lots of strange noises from women making baby speak. The only thing I understood from all of that was, “Do we have a new employee?” Get ’em started young, I guess. Teach ’em to be good employees before they learn to talk back.

  • links for 2007-09-28

    September 28, 2007
    Bookmarks

    The Power of Inline Views (tags: oracle sql)

  • links for 2007-09-27

    September 27, 2007
    Bookmarks

    Nerds to auction themselves to women – Yahoo! News (tags: news nerd) ASP.NET AJAX and Performance: Loadrunner 9.0 new features and problems (tags: load_testing.mercury) Sept. 26, 1983: The Man Who Saved the World by Doing … Nothing (tags: history) HP Customer Perspective: HP LoadRunner software – Tips and Tricks for Configuration, Scripting, and Execution –…

  • Eastern puffy

    September 25, 2007
    from LiveJournal, Photography

    Eastern puffy, originally uploaded by Ezra F.

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