Miscellanea

Everything that fails to fit, elsewhere

Minor Site Tweaks, More to Come

As promised, a few little changes have been going on behind and before the scenes, today. First, the blog software has been upgraded. More noticeably, I added a LinkedIn button and the AddThis bookmark dropdown menu. Want to add one of my posts to your Digg, Facebook, MySpace, or other link list? Click away –

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Life = Insanity

I have not been posting too much, lately. One key reason for this: Sarah tore a tendon out of her ankle and then proceeded to get terribly sick, on top of it. (She’s okay now – has an air cast, needs physical therapy, and is still congested, but is decidedly on the mend.) Of course,

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More Fun with Daylight Savings Time

I had forgotten another wonderful byproduct of DST. Microsoft Outlook automatically changes all of my all-day or multi-day appointments to start one hour later. Why it would be true, now, that the Fourth of July holiday would start at 1:00 AM, for example… I have no idea. P.S. This doesn’t impact appointments that are not

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Being Too Helpful

Most days, we use my phone as my alarm clock. It’s loud enough and persistent enough, plus it automatically compensates for things like Daylight Savings Time. Imagine my surprise when I discovered, however, that it had adjusted not only the time, but the alarm times, as well. So, at 2:00 AM, it apparently set the

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