October, 2007
Oct 192007
The Marble of Doom. Record how long the marble/beachball/pinwheel impedes your progress, then see how much money that time would be worth if it were billable. I should do this for the time I’ve spent working around IE6.
Data breach at Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance. If you’ve ever applied to a college in Louisiana, lived in Louisiana while applying for colleges elsewhere, or used the words “Louisiana” and “college” in the same sentence, then you might be the lucky potential victim of identity theft! You can find out if your information was possibly compromised. Please excuse me; I have credit reporting agencies to contact.
Oct 82007
And Invisible Man sayz, i can has light? and teh light wuz.
Oct 12007
English: The Perl of Natural Languages
The American Heritage Dictionary, in a usage note below the definition of the word shall, uses more words than I’ve ever used to describe anything. I’m reprinting them here because I find this fascinating, in an odd mystery-solving sort of way. I’m a linguistic Jessica Fletcher.
The traditional rules for using shall and will prescribe a […]
So yes, you’ve got that right. We’ve now reached what can only be called the alpha and the omega of contracting accountability breakdown ridiculousness. We’re outsourcing our investigations of Blackwater to Blackwater.
