Good Grief!

He may not have a soup-stained tie, but today he has a Pepsi-stained tie. I walked into his office just as a soda bottle exploded in his face. I escaped unharmed.

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The only news I need, Feburary 18, 2004.
Reviewer: a blog reader from Mexican Hat, Utah.
Finally, a blog that covers it all. Good Grief! combines humor, excellent writing, and insightful analysis into a frequently-updated weblog that is a must read for all!

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I think the novelty would wear off quickly… a Philadelphia woman got a new cell phone, and Verizon Wireless activated it with Donovan McNabb’s old number. Not only has the woman been getting a lot of McNabb’s phone calls and voice mails–she’s been getting his text messages. Alas, McNabb has requested that Verizon […]

This is old news already, but since the Navigator has been doing a fine job of covering the Alex Rodriguez trade, I wanted to bring the technical (yes, technical!) part of this deal to everyone’s attention. Techdirt reports an interesting detail in the fine print:
In exchange for the [contract] alterations, which devalue the present-day value […]

A few weeks ago, I blogged about the BBC buying Google advertisements for Hutton inquiry searches. At that time, I didn’t actually see any BBC-sponsored ads on Hutton-related search results pages. However, searchenginejournal.com reports that the BBC is still pursuing the search engine ad strategy. For example: Michael Jackson. In addition, […]

A few days ago, Kuro5shin evaluated the Windows source code that was leaked last week. If nothing else, the assessment is a good read because it offers a glimpse into the programmers’ comments:
:// the f***ing alpha cpp compiler seems to f**k up the goddam type “LPITEMIDLIST”, so to work
// around the f***king peice of […]

Bad news for residents of Tuvalu, a small South Pacific nation with 11,500 people spread across nine atolls. Large parts of the country will disappear underwater later this week:
Tuvalu…will be hit Thursday and Friday by “king tides” associated with the new moon, Hilia Vavae of the Tuvalu Meteorological Office [reports]
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Over the last decade, successive […]

We all know by now that Amazon.com accidentally revealed the identities of anonymous reviewers on its Canadian website last week. The story is newsworthy from a technical perspective (how confident can you be that personal information remains personal), and it’s also amusing (authors were found to have reviewed of their own work). But […]

He’s got us runnin’ ’round the office like gerbils on a wheel. To be fair, though, he doesn’t have a soup-stained tie or a rub-on tan. Apologies to Fountains of Wayne.

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about a woman who Googled her date, only to find that he was wanted by the FBI. But that’s nothing compared to a teenager who found an old picture of himself on a website for missing children:
Police in California want to reunite a 17-year-old with his father in […]