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I’m moving web hosts. Access may be spotty for the next few days. Everything should be cool by Monday or Tuesday. See you on the flip side.

Josh, hospital in Japan, treatment en route to Thailand, writes:

I am writing this entry from a sort of cyber cafe in a Japanese airport waiting for our final flight to Thailand. It is 4am Lancaster time and all is reasonably well. Unfortunately, I cannot access hotmail or Yahoo email, so of course Truetech was the next logical vehicle for communication…well I suppose I could have also used that crappy splitfocus blog that is never updated.

Anyway, I am pulling for you in the NH primary. Watch out for Lurch…I mean John Kerry

Well, my hat is in the ring, so to speak. I’ve applied for another job. Will I get it? Probably not, but if you don’t make yourself available when opportunities present themselves, you’ll never make a change.

Today is my 31st birthday. Gracie and Jen gave me their cards this morning. I opened up Gracie’s card and saw this picture, which she had drawn.

Gracie: This is you and me, Daddy.
Me: That’s me with just fuzz for hair, right?
Gracie: Yeah, because you’re bald.
Me: Why are you so sad in the picture?
Gracie: Because I fell down and hurt myself, but it’s okay because you’re helping me up.

Here’s a list of what not to do during Lord of the Rings. If you are faint of heart, or faint of butt, be warned: the link contains profanity.

Here’s a sample of what not to do:
In TTT when the Ents decide to march to war, stand up and shout “RUN FOREST, RUN!”

More gems await.

Here are some excerpts from our current list of open tech requests. Names have been changed, but these are otherwise unaltered.

The new teacher coverage system that [name deleted] wants me to use is not working out at the present time.

Okay, this doesn’t sound like a tech problem.

Please make every effort to put working computers in room 2745.

Hmmm… every effort? That sounds like a lot of work. How about every other effort?

Is there any way we can delete student accounts on [program name deleted]? The students have been creating nonsense account names, and some are vulgar.

These are the requests that make me feel like I’m really contributing to the world.

I’d really like to use my laptop at my desk. Can you run cords safely to get it there?

Of course, her desk is like fifty feet away from the nearest network connection.

[Name deleted] checked the computers in the lab and here are the results: #14 shows a disk with a ?; #23 is 0.k.; #24 is o.k.; #25 is frozen; #28 – the cursor won’t move. Thanks for passing this on.

Well, I’m glad 23 and 24 are OK.

Daring Fireball: The entire point of the Macintosh, salve from the onset, was to focus on quality. Anyone who claims Apple could have achieved greater than 50 percent OS market share without sacrificing what makes the Mac the Mac has no comprehension of how Microsoft built the Windows empire.

I’m thinking about switching to a different web host, and I’m soliciting recommendations. Right now, I’m with SurpassHosting, and I’m reasonably content, but I’ve had several outages in the last few days that they say haven’t happened (and to be fair, it’s possible that everything was up from their end, but it doesn’t change the fact that my site was not reachable for two twelve hour periods in four days). At any rate, their prices are hard to beat: I pay about $5 a month for lots of space, 5 gigs of bandwidth, unlimited email, unlimited mySQL, PHP, cgi-bin, Perl, cPanel, Fantastico, etc. It’s a pretty good deal. One thing I’d like to do that they charge extra for is hosting multiple domains, so I could also have bradrhine.com. Anybody want to recommend anyone?

Ananova: A farmer in eastern China didn’t realise his bride was really a man until her fake breasts fell off. Ummm, I’ll refrain from further speculation and just point out that the comments are open.

Here was the planned schedule for the evening:
5:00-ish PM – Leave work
7:00 PM – Small Group
8:40 PM – I duck out of Small Group a few minutes early to make to my first guitar lesson in more than years
9:00 PM – Guitar lesson
10:00 PM – Check email
11:00-ish PM – Sleep

Here’s how it happened instead:
5:00-ish PM – Call from Jen: “Did you see the weather forecast?” “No.” “It’s supposed to start snowing any minute. We’re supposed to get 3-5 inches. Maybe we should cancel Small Group.” “OK, make the calls, but I’m still going to my guitar lesson.”
5:30-ish PM – Arrive home. Jen has called everyone but Charlene, but has called Terry who will contact Linda who will contact Charlene. I look at the forecast and decide maybe I should skip my lesson. I call my guitar teacher and cancel.
6:30 PM – It’s not doing anything outside. If it doesn’t start snowing soon, I’m calling my guitar teacher to see if I can have my lesson after all. Gracie decides to play guitar for a while, and so does Jen.
7:00 PM – Charlene arrives. Whoops. She’s totally cool about it, though, and goes furniture shopping instead.
7:30 PM – Still not doing anything outside. I’m calling my guitar teacher.
7:40 PM – Train of thought interrupted by arrival of father-in-law, who comes bearing gifts: a snowblower. Sweet! He upgraded and gave us his old one. Very cool. A brief but loud demonstration follows.
7:55 PM – Terry calls to ask if Charlene showed up. He had trouble contacting her. No problem.
8:00 PM – I call my guitar teacher. “Hey, it’s not doing anything outside.” “Come on over.”
8:30 PM – Bedtime for Gracie.
8:40 PM – I head out to guitar lessons.
9:15 PM – My 9:00 lesson begins. I learn many cool things.
9:50 PM – I leave for home. It has started to snow after all.

All in all, I’d call it a pretty cool evening.