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Pixy's Second Law of Blogging

The quickest and surest way to increase your site hits is to post naughty pictures. Just linking to such pictures will double your visitors; actually putting the pictures on your blog will multiply it by ten or more.

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What Generation Gap?

On the train to work this morning, there was a group of little old ladies discussing Mel Gibson's latest flick: the biblical inaccuracies, the excessive violence, the merchandising (tut tut!), the reaction or lack thereof from the Catholic Church, and how Life of Brian was a much better film.

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Pixy's First Law of Blogging

No matter what the regular subject of a blog, be it politics or porn, knitting or nature, sooner or later it will be taken over by a string of posts about the blogger's computer problems.

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Who Do? You Do!


I'm a Philosopher/Scientist!



Which Enemy of the Christian Church Are You?

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Ouch!

I once slipped on some dead leaves, fell down a flight of stairs, landed with my right foot tucked underneath me, and got off with a sprained ankle.

Serenity wasn't so lucky.

Go visit her now, because she needs your support (and she's earned it).

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Voodoo Computer Maintenance

The Windows 2000 file server here at work, the only server that we have running anything other than Linux, the server that I know absolutely nothing about and have never touched (which is why it is still running Windows and hasn't been quietly, um, upgraded), just died. Died as dead as a very dead thing.

I poked and prodded it, power cycled, pulled the little BIOS battery, all to no avail. I called the person responsible for the server (who is, of course, not in the office today), also to no avail.

I pulled out the memory, and stuck it back in a different slot.

It works.

The moral of this story is: Us experts don't know what we're doing either. We're just methodical in our ignorance.

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Switch!

I just switched ISPs. (Yes, again.) Although my current ISP doesn't suck, they now only passively don't suck, where before they actively didn't suck. That is, they are cheap and reliable, but they used to be cheap and reliable and improving every month.

Also, I only* get 16GB of downloads on my current plan. With my new ISP, I get unlimited downloads. And it costs $5 less per month.

Also, I have switched my phone account to a new phone company. In fact, to the company I work for. And have worked for for two years now.

The only reason I hadn't already switched is that there were - two years ago - problems with transferring lines with ADSL. Those problems were long since resolved, only no-one told me. So I've been with Telstra*** all that time.

Anyway, now that I can download unlimited amounts of stuff each month, I need to go shopping for an unlimited disk drive to store it all. Has anyone seen a good price on such things recently?

* "Only."
** "Unlimited."
*** "Ugh!"

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Trying to Grok

Sarah of Trying to Grok is here on MuNu and blogging up a storm.

Tell her Pixy sent you.

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Bestofme 'R' Us


Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the 13th Annual Best of Me Symphony! Unfortunately, due to a conflicting engagement Billy Crystal could not be here to present the Symphony, so we're just going to have to make do without him.

We lead off with TPB, Esq. of Unbillable Hours and a fascinating peek into the the life of the family lawyer. I must say that it sounds a lot more Rumpole than Perry Mason.

Next in is Gary Cruse of The Owner's Manual, home of last week's Symphony, wondering if we in the West have become too stupid to survive. The answer is that some people indeed have; however, they are still protected by law.

The lovely and talented Susie of Practical Penumbra sings a paen of praise to Glenn Reynolds. No, really!

Simon of Simonworld rants about inaccurate views of his generation held by the previous generation, until he is distracted by something shiny.

Ted of Rocket Jones remembers his Uncle Art and reflects on the real value of things.

Northstar of The People's Republic of Seabrook takes an insightful look into how men deal with babysitting duties.

More song from Feste of A Foolsblog, who tells us of the UN Security Council's regrets.

Kiril of the wonderfully named Sneakeasy's Joint tells us that slowpokes have all the fun. Cycling. He's talking about cycling.

Bill of Idler Yet poses a trivia question that stumped me good. And I'm a member of the notorious Team L, boasting 28 consecutive victories against the evil Team H.

Jim, noble and wise creator of the Symphony, lurker at the bottom of your Snoozebutton Dreams, tells of his way of caring for sick children.

Rob of XSet (which stands for "Little Brown Furry Thing", only in Welsh) discusses the complexities of air fresheners.

Abnu of Wordlab had a bad feeling about that Timberlake dude long before the event. (Justin who? No, never mind.)

Mike the Marine explains why it's all your fault. You stole his ideas before he had them!

Bigwig of Silflay Hraka is assisting the Saudi Religious Police with their enquiries. Ever thoughtful, our Bigwig.

Bad Boy Harvey of Bad Money has some thoughts on pizza, hookers, and tipjars on blogs.

And to wrap things up on a suitably symphonic note, Pixy Misa of Ambient Irony has a little light music for you. (No, really!)

Next week's edition of the Symphony will be appearing at Irritable Blog Syndrome. Be there or be a regular quadrilateral!

Oh, and also check out the Carnival of the Capitalists, now appearing at D. F. Moore. One week only, tickets 10/6.

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Busy Day

Long day at work and my brain is fried.

Nonetheless, the special February 30 edition of the Bestofme Symphony will be appearing here soon.

Soon-ish.

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