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Status note
I kind of have to note the fact that I can, and have, posted a note on the CITES status server.
Of course, it’s not for the service I was hired to manage, but that’s a different discussion.
Econ 101 and 102 explained
So, YouTube is taking over the world. But, this guy is pretty darn good at explaining Economics.
Note: Apparently, you have to be some sort of Econ geek to find this funny, but anyway.
In the spirit of Fat Tuesday
Commonly Confused Words
Linked from Jim, the OkCupid Commonly Confused Words Test:
You scored 92% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 86% Expert!
Happy Birthday Robin!
mmmm, cupcake!
Robin is one year old today, the party was fun. Doctor’s appointment tomorrow afternoon so we’ll know just how much he weighs and how long he is. Pictures over at the albums. The car seat got turned around yesterday, now he gets to see where we’re going, sort of.
American infant seats NOT deathtraps
Consumer Reports has retracted it’s article and study that said almost all US spec car seats are junk. (Via Jalopnik)
Good to know that our Britax Marathon might actually have been worth the small fortune it cost, as long as we can use it for Robin until he’s, oh, 4’9″ or so.
Shoretel VoIP evaluation
The last few days at work have put the DNS RFP on the back burner and pushed me towards learning lots of new terms: DID, PSAP, NANP and ACD.
So far, the setup for the eval seems to be going well, the onsite technical guy from the vendor knows his stuff and the right people to call when he doesn’t know the answer. We’ve had a couple bumps in the road from Ameritech, T1 PRIs and the goofyness that is the campus Centrex system. But, we’re working around them and hopefully deploying phones to ~15 people between now and Friday. Shoretel essentially sent us one of every product they make in the VoIP sector, and we’re trying to put it all to good use.
Hopefully, I’ll remember to post about the outcome of this evaluation, assuming I’m allowed to by the NDA I have to sign at some point.
Recent reading
For Christmas, I got World War Z and The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster from Jim. Both of these were very quick reads.
WWZ took me just under a week to read, the writing is good, the story is good, much better than Brooks’ first try, The Zombie Survival Guide. Apparently there was a bidding war over the movie rights, expect it to come to a theater near you in 2008. The wife is now reading it, she was out of romance fluff. Definitely worth reading, assuming you can deal with stories of cannibalism and other not so nice topics. 8/10
The Gospel was also a quick read, but mostly because it was only 165 pages, with lots of pictures and diagrams. The premise of the book is essentially an expanded send up of the Intelligent Design goofballs, claiming that a Flying Spaghetti Monster has touched us all with His Noodly Appendages. And his Chosen People are the few remaining pirates, or just about anyone willing to wear “full pirate regalia” and drink grog. Funny, but not that funny. 5/10
New Computer
If you saw my Christmas wishlist over at NewEgg this year, you probably realized I was in the market to build a new computer. Last Tuesday I finally ordered all the parts I needed, which, thanks to my lovely wife and the brother-in-law, was a shorter list than it began with.
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