August 2010

Small but Alarming Indicator

August 27, 2010

Yesterday I trotted out to Scottsdale to meet, over breakfast, with the small business owners’ group I first visited just six months ago. At the time, I considered taking them up on their invitation to join, but then never got around to it, mostly because my editing business has been quiescent and I ended up [...]

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Finally shoveled out the pig-pen…

August 26, 2010

Have you ever noticed, when your computer crashes and has to be carted off to the computer hospital, how great dunes of dust accumulate behind and around the place it occupies? Maybe you’ve also noticed the way computer cords reproduce in the secret cubbyholes behind hardware and under desks. Expose them to the light of [...]

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Moments of Fame

August 25, 2010

Funny appeared in the following carnivals this week. Carnival of Personal Finance Provident Planning Social Security’s Bizarre Rules Christian Carnival You Can’t Mean That Is It OK to Donate Junk Food or Give It to Strangers? You really should run over to Frugal for Life and take a look at the amazing job Dawn did [...]

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Glory at the end of a devilish day

August 25, 2010

Dusk came in behind curtains of virga, otherworldly mauve in sunset’s banked furnace. In the distance, thunder, rumbling like bowling balls. Such an ugly day, today: 112 in the shade and muggy, so wet that even inside an air-conditioned box the water condenses on your face, you can’t tell the difference between air, water, and [...]

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Undisable cookies in Firefox?

August 23, 2010

Does anybody know how to get to the cookies thing in Firefox 3.6.8? Somehow all cookies have been disabled on the laptop,and so it won’t let me sign into gmail, and so I can’t get my gmail, and I can’t comment on any Blogger sites. Tools doesn’t seem to have the option. Here’s what I [...]

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Ohhhhh M. G.!

August 23, 2010

Stop the world! I wanna get off!! If Murphy’s Law can have global warming, that’s what we’ve got here. First day of class. All my coursework is neatly online. It has, some of you may recall, taken weeks of 16-hour days to mount this stuff on BlackBoard, the courseware that ate Philadelphia. Today I needed [...]

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