Archive for February, 2007


Voice Post

Well today saw another random 419’er drop on my virtual doorstep.

Here is a link explaining What a 419’er is

He violated no less than 75% of my IM rules.

My IM rules are basically sent to anyone who IM’s me that I don’t know. Within 2 lines they get the URL (which officially will change to a tinyurl ref: http://tinyurl.com/2nprbg)

Personally, there are a couple of things I wish you could do in the IM world:
1) Hit a spam button which gets your IM account and IM’s temporarily monitored
2) Auto send a link, document to anyone who IM’s you for the first time.
3) have some recourse other than “Block” against abuse.

Just my $0.02 for the day.

-me

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(the all famous, all pronouncing, all everything) THEY say admitting you have a problem is half the battle.

I thought about this this morning while working on code.

I thought… well, admitting there is a problem is half the battle.
Finding the problem is half of what is left
Identifying and understanding the specifics of the problem is half of what’s left
finding the solution to the specific problem is half of what is left
implementing the solution is half of what is left.
Testing that this was the right solution is half of what is left.
Accepting the change is half of what is left.
Leaving extra room for all the other problems you’ll need to fix once you’ve fixed this one.

That’s right. Fixing yourself is hard because it is the ultimate Zeno’s Paradox.

Back in September of 2004, I did a lecture on ceremonial rituals. This involved using the word קבּלה. For those of you on non-unicode systems that is loosely spelled kabalah. (the k could be a c, there may or may not be an h on the end, the number of b’s and l’s may vary more than your car’s mileage, יאדא, יאדא, יאדא)

So in October, I decided to look around LJ and find out… how do people think they spell it?

Going back thru old posts today I found this one and decided to update the information. What is the most popular English spelling for the word? Over the past 2 1/2 yrs… have people learned to spell? Does anyone even care about the topic still?

So… I’ve modified the old post with new information.

Feel free to comment here or there.

*waves*