Our cell phone company has just started adding a $2 charge for any customer that still receives a mailed bill. They’re promising to donate an additional $2 to a charity for any customer that goes paperless, too. I expected this sort of thing to happen years ago. Companies have been touting paperless billing for more …
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Not a very good illusion, in my opinion, but it might help.
Nothing to add to this, just thought it was very interesting. And, of course, the Monty Python reference (in the original article) is always appreciated. 😉
I’ve mentioned my love/hate relationship with upgrades before. Yesterday I had another check-mark for the “hate” column. I’d run into a minor compiler bug in my Ubuntu version of GCC. Since a new version of the OS had just been released the day before, promising even faster bootups and other improvements, I thought I’d upgrade …
As mentioned before (in posts such as this one), we share our house with three feline companions. Winston has always been our problem child, usually by his attitude that litter boxes are optional equipment. He’s also the original scaredy-cat, almost always looking around wide-eyed and running away from everything, including us. Last night GoddessJ, who …
Something else to file in the “if only I had money to burn” category. I’d dearly love to see Ada Lovelace’s programs run on the machine they were written for.
On the lighter side… everyone has moments where their mouths run faster than their brains, but these quotes show that some of the funniest happen in a courtroom.
I really don’t know what to make of this, except to bet that there were far more geeks in the audience than opera fans: Schonfeld said he has invited the people of Klingon to see the show during its three day run in the 100-seat Zeebelt theatre in The Hague or a later run in …
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We’re mostly moved in now. As usual after a move, we can’t find anything… we labeled all the boxes, but we’re not sure where some of the boxes themselves ended up in all the confusion. I insisted on moving all our computer equipment myself, so I knew where all that stuff was, and the office …
Um… WTF?