April 2009

Getting closer!

April 22, 2009

Wow! What an adventure this migration has been. I would not have had a snowball’s chance of moving Funny to BlueHost by myself. It’s been quite a challenge for Mrs. Micah, who’s an expert. Apparently the issue is that quite a lot of strange code lurks in the innards of Funny about Money, with many [...]

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Still in transit…

April 22, 2009

Well, Funny made it over to BlueHost but still has some going to arrive intact. Watch this space!

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Bankbooks and Financial Records: Things people say about themselves

April 21, 2009

Officer Canciverra of the Phoenix PD just came by to pick up a checkbook La Maya and I found on the ground during our morning stroll. The owner’s address is in Tempe, so pretty clearly it didn’t just happen to fall out of her purse in the oleanders, 20 miles from home. Interesting, the things [...]

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Should I bother with trying to save my job?

April 21, 2009

So I’ve cooked up a proposal that has an outside chance of rescuing our office and saving my job. The idea is that my sidekick and I will go on nine-month contracts, which would save the university a bundle of money, and that we would have only one research assistant, who would be hired 10 [...]

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Funny switches servers tomorrow

April 20, 2009

Well, tomorrow’s the day of the big switch. Mrs. Micah is going to help me convert Funny to a monetized site (anyone wanna buy an ad, BTW?), switching to Bluehost in the bargain. I have no idea how this is going to work, and of course given my advanced level of technobumbling, the site may [...]

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10 ways to layoff-proof your life

April 20, 2009

Yesterday as Cassie and I were walking to the park, we came across a neighbor in his front yard, putting the finishing touches on a new sprinkling system. He said his father-in-law had installed it, the old man having been laid off and needing work. Then he started to count off all the people he [...]

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