Grr Stupid health insurance. "Oh yes Mrs Hawke, that's our mistake, we'll refile the claim and pay it." Really? So why have I got another bill for it a month later? Why am I sat on hold again, listening to syrupy music again, reciting date
Blogs aplenty We now have a CDP Admin blog, a four person deal. It only took three failed attempts at installing a PHP MySQL blog too. Quickblog just didn't look right, myPHPblog I couldn't get running, scratchblog logged me out every minute, making it really irritating to do
Pi day Today is 3/14/02. Today is Pi day. Pi is 3.1415926535897932384626433832795 and then a whole pile of other numbers on the end, which are as useful in practical terms as a chocolate teapot.
Artificial Ears Well, that was interesting. Just got home from an interview for an assistant manager job for a jewelry store in the mall. I'd be piercing ears if I got the job. They have artificial ears to practise on. Somewhere out there is a company that sells fake ears
Reformation Starting work on an acceptable user behaviour statement, with help from one of the users. I wish there was some way to make people read the help files, the usual lament of tech support ("It's in the flipping help file! Can't you READ?! Oh, your
Quantum Tea Finally I have a name for my web site that I am entirely happy with. Quantum Tea. I get through a lot of tea, and, while there is a book called "The Quantum Rose," (the site's former name), there is nothing else called Quantum Tea. Now
Claw Marks I wish I'd thought of this as a name for my blog. I'd call the archives "The Scratching Post." Oh well. Sehlat has a blog and it's my fault.
Down, much to my relief The Christian Depression Pages message boards are down. Officially for maintenance, phpBB 2.0 hasn't been released yet, and one user threatened to sue another user. Come on people, it's only a message board! So, at long last, Paul, Lara, Olof and I don't
License plates and other animals Now this is fun, you can make your own license plate. These are mine: "TARDIS" (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space, which is a registered trademark of the BBC) is for the Mazda Tribute, it's massive when you put the back seats down. Bigger on the
And so it begins... Make that two suicide threats, one accusation of being a power mad, unspiritual bitch, plus multiple accusations of being a cold, callous, tyrant. Marvelous. Where in the dictionary does it say that "reconcile" means "Give me my own way NOW, lie down and be trampled on forevermore,