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why is it that firebird always prompts me if i’m sure i want to close all those active tabs when i intentionally close a window, but if i accidentally quit the app, it happily folds up and goes away without a whimper? why must the computers conspire against me so?

so here i am laid up with this stinking busted wrist, with one project to spearhead — getting chi-sage back up and running, including putting together a rudimentary site at chi-sage.org and finding cheep meeting space for january — and i just had an awesome idea i really want to implement, that wouldn’t take a […]

oh, brother.

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this is the email i just tried to send: From: sabrina l. downard To: iTunes Music Store Customer Service Specific Request: Computer Authorization Hello. This message is actually not in regard to computer authorization at all, but this was the only form I could find after jumping through at least a dozen pages (half of […]

still in atlanta

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so, lisa is all over. it was a pretty good one, this year. i hear that that the expanded tutorials program did a good job of helping recoup some funding that’s been lost since attendance has been down after the dot coms bombed. i was sort of bummed about my two-day ‘hacking and securing web […]

decided the other day to attempt — again — to move from my antique firebird browser over to firefox, the latest and greatest. since it’s actually the same project, just renamed, you’d think that this would be easy and painless. you’d be wrong, at least if you were me. two painful days later, i’m back. […]