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Archive for September, 2007

Whipper’s Fixation With Inkjet Printers

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

It’s tough printing things around here. Whipper, my ash tabby, has a “fetish” for inkjet printers when they are printing.
Today I discovered that it must be some commonly occurring strand in tabby DNA . I present this as my evidence:

Thankfully Whipper doesn’t take it quite this far. But they definitely need to […]

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A while ago I vowed to give up CNN, and for the most part I’m doing ok.
But I can’t resist linking THIS for Deb. She’ll just love it.

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The Absolute Best Comment Spam EVER

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Most of you folks who have been reading here for a while know that I used to have a huge problem with comment spam. Comment spam is basically when people (or computer processes) leave comments on my blog articles for the sole purpose of advertising/spamming their links.
A while ago, Wordpress (the software I use) […]

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Filezilla 3.0.0

Monday, September 10th, 2007

I don’t often announce software updates here, but this one is an essential.
If you need FTP or maintain a website, you need Filezilla 3.0.0. In my opinion, it’s the best Windows FTP client on the market, and best of all… it’s free. It’s simply a beautiful program that does what it’s supposed to […]

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Superb Editing!

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

I know Justin will like this one…

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The early leader is Hunter Grant.
Most of you don’t know who Hunter is. That’s ok. I don’t mind taking a moment to explain. In the town where I lived most of my teenage years and into my early twenties, Mr. Grant was the editor-in-chief (and I’m pretty sure the publisher as well) […]

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An eight-month-old Himalayan cat arrived at the Double Bay clinic on Monday morning with dilated pupils and a racing heart after being accidentally locked in a cupboard overnight, Fairfax newspapers reported.
It was having trouble walking, was easily startled, paced incessantly and was too anxious to have a thermometer inserted into its rectum, said a report […]

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