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Apparently the guy who was director of technology for Harrisburg was apparently ordered to return kickback stuff.

“Federal District Judge Christopher Conner ordered Weaver in October to forfeit about $1.9 million, plus two Chevrolet Trailblazers, a Chevrolet station wagon, a boat and several properties.”

Wow. How come I don’t get any kickback money? I mean, I’d have to refuse it, but if no one even offers me any then I must not be doing a good enough job…

At least until we can figure out a way to export/import my site archives over to Tangelo…

At least that’s what the AP says….

Gary Share is Microsoft’s director of product management for Windows.

Gary Share is the spokesperson for Internet Explorer in relation to the Firefox browser, which in a few months since its 1.0 unveiling has taken the world by storm, topping 10 million downloads and reducing IE’s market share below 90% and counting for the first time since, well, ever since it got there.

Gary says some funny things about Firefox and IE in this New York Times article (free reg required). He’s certainly arguing for the company product, IE.

But he doesn’t use IE himself.

From the article:
“Mr. Schare may be the official spokesman, but he does not use Internet Explorer himself. Instead he uses Maxthon, published by a little company of the same name. It uses the Internet Explorer engine but provides loads of features that Internet Explorer does not. “Tabs are what hooked me,” he told me, referring to the ability to open within a single window many different Web sites and move easily among them, rather than open separate windows for each one and tax the computer’s memory. Firefox has tabs. Other browsers do, too. But fundamental design decisions for Internet Explorer prevent the addition of this and other desiderata without a thorough update of Windows, which will not be complete until 2006 at the earliest.”

I’ve been trapped in a stream of consciousness!

-A State of Transition-

Well, maybe you won’t “see” it, but under the hood changes are cool anyway.

(or should it be “Up I Give”–just joking, please)
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001702.html

Lots to write about, but just no time to write it.

I’d say I have to make the time, but my wife always gets mad when I say that to her:

“Well, Denise, you just have to make the time if you want to do this.”

“Make what time?!? There is no time! You cannot make time. I have no time.”

Man, I love to get her riled up. It’s a perverse streak in me, but she knows I do it out of love. It’s just too much fun teasing her. I mean, the buttons are just there, waiting to be pushed. How can I resist? I love my wife. Anyone else would have killed me by now…

I can buy Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day now on the iTunes Music Store. I’d heard it in San Francisco on 105.3 FM and I wanted to download it. I’d like to be able to buy the whole Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dreams song that I’d heard, but that’s an “Album Only” song (Green Day’s new album American Idiot). Maybe later.

What’s the deal with this phone pic, you ask?

Frankly, it was just a snapshot of a street in San Franciso where I witnessed the most amazing demonstrations of astoundingly inept parallel parking that I’ve ever seen.

Seriously, in the hour I was there (listening to an awesome blues band on the second floor, I might add), no one–and I mean no one–was able to park in the spaces across the street. Stunning. We were all remarking on it. I mean, look at them! It’s not like the room is tight there.

And I still never figured out what the “bush man” was doing down there with the branches (they’re hard to see in the picture, in front of the white car on the left). I thought he was homeless, but I don’t think many homeless people have cell phones.

Unless they do in San Francisco–I was just a stranger in a strange land…