{"id":12702,"date":"2008-02-22T05:58:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T12:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/02\/22\/quick-potpourri-on-a-friday-morning.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T08:29:49","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T15:29:49","slug":"quick_potpourri_on_a_frid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/22\/quick_potpourri_on_a_frid.html","title":{"rendered":"Quick potpourri on a Friday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. How a cockroach got 30 people fired<\/a>. It’s good <\/em>to be the king …<\/li>\n
  2. Lesson from the Heathrow baggage snafu — don’t upgrade both your redundant systems at the same time<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. That River certainly is a creepifying girl<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. Using Google Spreadsheets to run a survey<\/a>. I might have to try this.<\/li>\n
  5. Blogger gets fired for having a blog<\/a>. Corporate myopia, employee naivet\u00e9, or both?<\/li>\n
  6. The risks and costs of using the Internet as your hard drive<\/a>. That remains, honestly, why I keep so much of my online stuff on my own domain (where, if it goes away, it’s probably my fault). Though, even there, I still host my mail on Google …<\/li>\n
  7. Satellite spotting sounds like a fun hobby — even if (or perhaps because) it causes the government security fits<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  8. Now that security has made air travel even more miserable (and perhaps lethal<\/a>), let’s start ruining train travel, too<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  9. I didn’t do an obit for Steve Lieber<\/s> Steve Gerber <\/em>because, honestly, I was never much of a Howard the Duck <\/em>fan. Thundarr the Barbarian<\/em>, on the other hand<\/a> … (via Scott<\/a>)<\/small> <\/li>\n
  10. Exporting contacts from Outlook to Gmail is a fine idea <\/a>— except that it doesn’t transfer snail-mail addresses. *sigh* <\/li>\n
  11. One of the coolest things about the Internet is that if Katherine is trying to sing along to the lyrics to a favorite TV show, I can probably find the text for her online<\/a>. Of course, it’s usually transcribed, and so subject to individual interpretations.<\/li>\n
  12. Disney’s Night Kingdom?<\/a> If it saves the Adventurer’s Club from oblivion<\/a>, I’ll fork over my money.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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