March in Minnesota: according to the weatherman on TV right now, the low tonight will be 5 below. The high Friday will be 55 above.
We’ve all dated someone like that.
(Thanks to my wonderful wife for Not Being That Person™…)
… and this has apparently been happening for centuries.
I now (thanks to
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A Rulebook of Children’s Games) have the decoding for that
children’s classic of whimsey and play, Ring Around the Rosey.
It is a memorial of the great Plague of London from 1665:
Ring a ring of roses(early plague symptom: red splotches ringing the neck area)
A pocket full of posies
(Londoners carried herbs attempting to ward it off)
A tish-oo, a tish-oo
(late plague symptom: violent sneezing)
We all fall down
(guess those posies didn't help much)
Read the two stories referenced by this Slashdot article:
Microsoft Opens Source to China. Then think through the national
security implications if Jim Allchin’s sworn testimony is actually
true.
So, is Jim Allchin guilty of perjury, or is Bill Gates guilty of
treason? You decide!
[Either way, this does nothing to change my belief that the common
good would be well served by some Microsoft executive(s) spending 24-48
hours in the slammer —
or even better, bring back the stockade and let them be jeered at and
pelted with rotten vegetables.]
Congratulations to Dale
and Heather Price on their
new baby son!
Terry Mattingly hits it perfectly regarding liberal Anglican
hypocrisy toward allegedly-respected Third World voices:
“The liberals basically spent the last 40 years saying, ‘Let’s hear
the voice of the Third World,’ ” said historian Philip Jenkins of
Pennsylvania State University, addressing a recent Anglican Mission in
America conference. “And now they’ve heard it and they’d like the
Third World to shut up for several decades.”
(Link via
Midwest Conservative Journal.)
Two months later, and I still haven’t either (a) fixed my Blogger troubles or made good on my threat to use BlogMax.
I blame Real Life™ plus a computer death and rebirth.
Being the software geek that I am, I don’t think I can resist trying BlogMax for a while, and do my blogging in Emacs.
This should allow me to
Looks like a “win-win” situation to me.
This looks like the only way I’m going to get my Sitemeter button back …
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(Yes, I check how many people read my scribblings. It’s also a bit … frightening … what some of the search strings are that lead here …)
So, I was able to edit my template long enough to restore comments. However, I am now back to having edits trash the template, before I was able to restore the “Links” section.
Blech. Must find better way.
This time, it looks like there’s some hope of editing my template. Stay tuned.
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