A poor soul demonstrates how not to inquire about a job.
Monthly Archives: July 2005
E-book frustration
I can’t find a German-English dictionary for my Palm. Yes, there are some out there but those normally recommended in academia are not available for the Palm.
Caring for Ice
A few ramblings about caring for Ice, our oldest cat, who suffers from Feline Chronic Renal Failure.
Immemorial History!
Actual description of an actual TV show (edited for readability):
Miracle Planet: The Violent Past, (Historical) Life may have come from microbes four billion years ago.
Historical?
Terror in London
The man that was shot on Friday by the London Police was not a terrorist after all. No, he was found guilty of looking foreign by the London Police. (He was in fact Brazilian.) I thought the police was supposed to protect the innocent from terror but now it seems that their role is to deliver it to the brave citizens of London by randomly killing innocents.
VOANews: public domain media
I needed some audio files to test an application… A quick check onto the VOA web site confirmed that all materials produced exclusively by VOA are in the public domain. Yay!
Half-Life 1: Close but No Cigar
Rumblings and grumblings about Half-Life 1. Contrast with my earlier post about Half-Life 2: Half-Life 2: the Felicitous Marriage of Physics and Gameplay. I’m putting this up here mainly for the sake of comparison with that Hal-Life 2 post.
Half-Life 2: the Felicitous Marriage of Physics and Gameplay
In this entry, I’m drooling over Half-Life 2.
Barricat!
The barricat polices the cats for me.
Louis-Dominique replies to spam
I get spammed just like everyone else. Sometimes I’d like to respond to those bozos but I know that my responses won’t get anywhere. So I’ll do the next best thing and respond to them here. Since I don’t want to open their messages, I’m only going to respond to their subject line.