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The eagerly awaited results of the 2005 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, named after the author of the phrase "It was a dark and stormy night...", as immortalized by Snoopy in the "Peanuts" comic strip.
According to the site, Mr. Bulwer-Lytton also originated the expressions "the pen is mightier than the sword", "great unwashed", and "the almighty dollar".
The winner is one Dan McKay, from Fargo ND ... who is a 'quantitative analyst for Microsoft Great Plains'. There is no indication that he is in charge of the Microsoft Help text ... or that he is the editorial consultant here.
I worked on a few problems and updates with the web filtering software today. We're adding a second 'collector' (web browsing 'catcher') on a differnet server. The intent is to have that one be the primary, and the existing server will just run the SQL database, along with being the backup. It's mostly done; just need to get the switch to 'span' properly. It may be that the switch is maxed out on spanning; we've got a ticket open on that issue.
I've also been working with my new laptop, a Thinkpad T42. It has the IBM logo on it, but it now belongs to Lenovo. A nice little system, with a fingerprint reader on it. I set it up to use that as the login, which works well. And I 'enrolled' four fingers, just in case I get an 'owie' on one. It was suggested that I enroll a toe, rather than finger, as that would be more secure. But I thought that the risk of an air quality alert would rule that out. More software installing tomorrow is on tap.
And, welcome to August. Sharp-eyed readers noticed that yesterdays' post was still in July. So I changed Monday's heading to correct that problem.
Still hot around here, close to 100 degrees (F). We had a good streak of 100+ last month, and the weather dweebs are guessing that the rest of this week will be over 100. Today we only got to 98-99, a welcome respite. But the humidity is under 30%, and it does cool down at night into the mid-upper 60's. The back patio, which gets full afternoon sun, is still a bit warm to walk on in the evening. Which probably explains why the flowers that Pam and Stacy planted in June are now brown. Not for a lack of water, or mulching. Just too much heat.
You probably saw all the articles about fake ATM cards. Make sure your bank covers fraud on ATM cards -- not all of them do. And watch your account activity for fraud. Around here, we (Pam, actually) check that daily.
A new report for you -- about some evil phishing. You might find it interesting.
Other than that, the "same-old, same-old".
... more later ...
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