Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to mclain143!!! Have a great one!!

Done yesterday (20100426 Mo)

( raw notes )

My netbook is back! It probably got a new motherboard; the sheet that came with it has "microphone" checked off, but the boxes are right next to one another so I assume it's a typo. It's Dell, after all; I don't expect competence.

(I don't expect competence from myself, either: I nearly destroyed the directory that contains my journals, by restoring the backups in the wrong terminal window. Careless bear! Luckily I had backups of the fileserver from Sunday, and the one file changed since then (to.do) open in Emacs. But it was a near thing.)

I can haz boss! BS (his actual initials) accepted our offer. Meanwhile the person who is now my great grandboss said that he read my rambling notes on where I think I fit in and found them amusing. That pleases me; it means I'm not taking things or myself too seriously.

Plenty of links. under the cut. Trust BoingBoing to notice that yesterday was not only Boobquake day, but also Charles Richter's birthday!

Signal boost: more LJ crap

LiveJournal's new sneaky trick -> LiveJournal's latest misguided attempt to make a quick buck. -> No Opt In, No Ads

What they're doing is redirecting links to outboundlink.me, which adds an affiliate code and sends you back to, e.g. Amazon with the affiliate bucks going to LJ. Sleazy, and both a privacy and a security risk. Not to mention a violation of my copyright.

... So I now have, after much delay, an account on Dreamwidth (mdlbear, of course), though I haven't made use of it yet. I'm not going to abandon LJ -- most of my friends are still here, and I have a permanent account. And I'm not going to move my primary blog to DW; eventually they'll both be cross-posted to from someplace completely under my control, probably under steve.savitzky.net.

Is this thing on?

testing... testing...