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Monthly Archives: December 2006

Paul sent me flowers!

22-Dec-06

Paul, of CANADA, sent me flowers yesterday for Christmas!
No one has EVER sent me flowers before. He apparently tried to get them delivered to me at work, but our Eugene office moved in July and the interweb hasn’t updated itself or overwritten itself enough to make that clear. So… he IMed [...]

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Fixed my rss feed.

07-Dec-06

Thanks to Marineam, “full text” in wordpress rss feeds now work for me.

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Comcast re-issues old email addresses == big security hole

07-Dec-06

So, my roommate and I recently switched to Comcast, and he was issued an email address @comcast consisting of the first letter of his first name and his entire last name.
He logged in today and discovered the inbox already contains email (and spam) from the previous owner (whose name was Carol. His name is Chris). [...]

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Salaries of Govt. Officials and Standing with Minimum Wage Earners

05-Dec-06

Part I
Did you know that the Federal Govt. spends about $91,687,500.00 (that’s nearly $92 million, for those of us who don’t often see numbers bigger than 4 or 5 digits) a year on the salaries of 551 people?
Did you know that our president makes $400,000 a year? (sources: 1, 2) The average US [...]

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Space walking for change

01-Dec-06

So… I used to live with Cody Sheehy, who runs Autonomy Productions and makes amazing documentaries and other creative video things (on top of being in grad school studying rangeland sciences! heh.)
He made a documentary about my/our other roomie Marci a while back and her nuclear reactor design that could take people to Mars. (linky [...]

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