Monthly Archives: November 2008

Please Excuse the Interruption in Service

We’re apologize for the interruption in service you might have experienced over the last 24 hour period. We try our best not to have these things happen but machines (and people) being what they are and all that.
In this case, somebody dropped a can of used DB motor oil (with all sorts of those horrid [...]

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JT Evening News 8th Edition

Welcome the to the 8th edition of the JT Evening News (published whenever I feel like it). Yeah, it’s been awhile. In fact, it’s been longer than awhile but things have been in total disarray lately. Actually, I’m the one who has been in a total disarray lately but that’s besides the point. Now to [...]

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I Bollixed the Thing II

My host saved my blog yesterday from the never ending peril of me screwing with it by beginning a major upgrade on my server. They must have seen me coming.
They’re upgrading the hardware, upgrading and tweaking the Linux kernel, replacing the old hard drives with new SSD’s, etc, etc and they began this endeavor by [...]

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I Bollixed the Thing!

I bollixed my blog up. Totally banjaxed it I did or at least a good portion of it. I’m so proud of myself I could just spit.
And how did I manage to do this, you ask? By messing about with themes again that’s how. Lost all my widgets in the process too. I got stupid, [...]

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Turning on the World-Not Worth It Sometimes

I tried to get up this morning and all I managed was to raise my noggin about 6 inches before I completely ran out of steam and my head plopped back into the pillow. Unfortunately, our newest feline menace managed to crawl onto the pillow just before my head came crashing back down effectively squashing [...]

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The Conflicts of War

Such a wonder are
the conflicting images
of war.

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Too Sweet for Surgery

For those of you who are wondering what ever happened to me and the surgery that I was supposed to have had (yes, I said supposed to have had), it was cancelled at the last minute due to my blood sugar being too high. So what has high blood sugar have to with anything? According [...]

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I’ll Take my President Black

Would that I would see the day when my country should elect a black president. If someone were to ask me 10 years ago if I thought this would happen I would have given them a sad smile and replied that I rather doubt it. So I lived to see the beginning of the [...]

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