My office is in the process of converting to Office 2007. (We're a non-profit, so we have to be a few years behind with software.) Anyway, some computers have been converted and others haven't. It's making my job kind of hellish because I am never sure what is going to work (WebEx and e-mail newsletter rendering problems detected so far) for whom. Arrgh.
I found this as a slide without further explanation in a presentation about a CMS for Ruby on Rails. Someday I will understand these kinds of jokes. At least, I think it's a joke??
Seems like this woman looking for some advice on her envy problem got a lot more than she was looking for as a response: it was less of an answer and more of a manifesto about the deluded and unhappy state in which we all live, ignoring the call to a higher purpose. I've always found the feeling of envy fascinating, both when I have experienced it and just thinking about it. The author claims that it serves as a motivating factor, which I guess it can, but it is a rather negative motivator - telling you to do whatever you can to be rid of that horrible feeling.
Hardly at all related to this, I have recently been asked to program a website. I am working in Ruby on Rails to build the site, and hope to overlay a content management system so users can upload new content and edit content as needed without having to understand code (besides common HTML tags). So far, I'm spending a lot of time figuring out how Rails works, as well as learning how to code CSS by trial and error. I never really envied web designers and programmers, but maybe I should have. It's actually not that bad - especially if you are capable of focusing on really minute details. S. has been helping me a lot, but I already solved a few bugs with how the page was displaying on my own, so that made me feel pretty good. There's still a lot of work to be done, but the deadline got extended just a bit, and I am still waiting for content, so I feel less rushed overall.
Hope everyone is well. It's been rather quiet in lj-land. I guess everyone's over at Facebook :P
Going to visit my parents in VA this weekend. Somehow, going to their place is always going "home" for me, even though I never lived in their current house. Looking forward to sitting by the pool and catching up with them. Since when did I want to hang with the old folks? I must be getting old, too.
My dad said we would go to the Outer Banks (NC coast) tomorrow. I've never been there, even when I was living so close, so it should be interesting.
In other news, my mom asked me to bring my old Mac Performa 636 down for her to use. The thing is 15 years old and still running like gangbusters. Now if only I can get a web browser and an Ethernet card installed on that thing, it would be good to go...
In one of the less harmful but more stupid things they have done, PETA suggests a new, not quite vegetarian, product - CloFu - Tofu mixed with George Clooney's sweat: http://environment.about.com/b/200…
The problem with Facebook (at least the main one I have) is that it brings together a huge group of people who are: your co-workers, your family, your current and former love interests, your old friends, your new friends, your activity partners, some unusual acquaintances, people who went to school with you and recognize your name but not much else, etc. It also allows you to indicate which causes you support, etc. In my case, this mixture isn't exactly pleasant -- i.e. there are a lot of people who know me in one sense, who I don't really want to know me in another sense. And I get added as a friend by people I barely remember.
There doesn't seem to be a way to filter what people see about you, like the lj friends filters (not that I really use those on here). And as my lj-friend, unless you actually have met me in person or sent me something in the mail (which many of you haven't) you don't know my entire name or address, and that name isn't associated with these thoughts. Which is the way I like things.
That said, if anyone has Facebook and wants to add me there, you're more than welcome. Just don't expect lots of updates of a personal nature.
I've been following the ideas on Change.org, and was happy to see that while the idea "Introduce Esperanto as a foreign language subject in schools to help American kids succeed" did not make it into the top 10, it did make it into the second group of 25 ideas that Change.org will also be promoting. The idea received a total of 3,597 votes, including mine.
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