Dave Barry is halarious
http://davebarry.blogspot.com/
HOMELAND SECURITY UPDATE
We are in a Heightened State of Alert. Our official national-security status has been raised to Level IX, or “Buttpucker.” Everybody needs to be ALERT and HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS. Like, if somebody at the supermarket asks you, “Paper of plastic?”, your correct response is: “Who wants to know?”
Lawyer calls....
Shame..shame.. Fuckers!
Today..A few flurries ending then gradual clearing this morning. Wind west 50 km/h gusting to 70 diminishing. Poor visibility in local blowing snow. Very cold. Temperature steady near minus 17. Wind chill minus 31.
Tonight..Clear. Wind west 30 km/h gusting to 50. Very cold. Low near minus 26. Wind chill minus 36.
Friday..Sunny. Wind west 40 gusting to 60 km/h. Bitterly cold. High near minus 18. Wind chill minus 38 in the morning.
Received in my inbox today
Attn: The President/Managing Director
I am Dr. Stanley Mordi, Director of Bills/Exchange at
the Foreign Remittance Department of ABSA Bank in
South Africa., I apologized using this medium to reach
you for a transaction/business of this magnitude, but
this is due to Confidentiality and prompt access
reposed on this medium. Be informed that a member of
the South Africa Bank Promotion Council (SBPC) who was
at the Government delegation to your country during a
trade exhibition, gave your enviable
credentials/particulars to me. I have decided to seek
a confidential co-operation with you in the execution
of the deal described Here under for the benefit of
all parties and hope you will keep it as a top secret
because of the nature of this transaction.
http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/000988.php
A short blub from the site above.. recommended full read
“.htaccess files are lovely, lovely things. They do exactly what the name implies: control access to your files. About six months ago, I had problems with a bunch of l33t brats ‘borrowing’ my bandwidth and using a few of my photos on message boards.......”
‘Dude: Your getting a new Dull! I’m getting stoned...’
Seems the Dell Dude was caught trying to buy some maryjane in New York.
Will someone please tell me how this qualifies as news worthy of CNN, or any other venue for that matter?
This is, perhaps, a provocative question and one which could lead to all sorts of inaccurate conclusion about the author. I am sure, that perception of gender is a very individual reaction when responding to visual or intellectual stimuli.
As I wonder around the web reading and learning, I have developed an awareness of a perceived gender of the web owner. For instance, one of my favourite sites is Notsosoft. This (again, my perception) is a site that exhibits female gender. Firstly, I consider the design and content to be one of the most elegant and precise expressions of an owners personality that I have seen. It is amazing that a few days spent reading Meg’s comments and content that I feel I know the person. Even without the indication of female gender in the name, I have come to think of this site as female. There is a feeling of sweeping curves in the site, no hard (squared off edges??) in the narrative and thinking, an openness and self- awareness that is fresh and revealing. There seems to be a flexibility in thinking combined with an undercurrent of “I am in control and I don’t really give a shit what you think about me”. That appeals to my sense of what life should be about. There is a certain delicate style to the design that I find indicative of female gender.
Compare that site to Lou Quillio’s site where the design is more abrupt, less whimsical and more ‘matter-of-fact’. The writing, while more technical and less personal or introspective is every bit as informative and fun to visit as the aforementioned. This site, to me, has male gender and I am not sure why I think that.
Finally have a look at what the young gentlemen at SilverOrange have done. This site appears gender neutral to me. When I visit this site, I have no sense of gender of any sort. Clever, I would say - as this site is a commercial site that presents their product to a gender-mixed audience.
Conclusions:
Oh Rah, finally got Webalizer and Apache to put friendly names in the stats..oh rah!
I have decided I don’t like game hen - gah!