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Sneak, sneak, sneak… Link courtesy of Boing Boing

Good Web comic…

I was just archiving my Outlook personal folders here at work, and I realized I had sent over 4,000 email messages last year…and those were just the ones that I saved. Ouch.

Comic from Tom Tomorrow…

I really wanted not to comment on the Terri Schiavo case. I really wanted not to comment on it because I don’t think our comments matter. In the end, this is a personal, family matter that has been blown out of all proportion. (Yes, there are larger issues here, but what is happening to Terri Schiavo is happening across the United States right now with other patients and we haven’t been paying attention to them.) So, why am I commenting now? No good reason, other than to get it out of my head. ...

Peanuts made The New Yorker last year and I didn’t even know. Link courtesy of The Comics Curmudgeon

Channel 4 covers the worst jobs in British history. You can take the quiz and see what you might be doing.

I wince when I hear I’m invited to a brainstorming session. I understand why people have them, but I prefer for the ideas that I communicate to be in some sort of thought-out, vetted condition. In other words, I don’t like spouting whatever bizarre idea pops into my head until I think about it. (I save the bizarre ideas for when I’m bored in regular meetings.) :) What we seem to have here is a big brainstorming session on how to save the Internet from growing security and noise risks. At least I think it must have been, because folks came up with ideas such as this one: ...

In the continuing list of good spam from my various inboxes, we have this entry: Sender: Executioner A. Eminently Subject: Let’s be having you! First line of email: How about your good self? Almost seems cheerful, on a rainy day. :)

Hmm, I drove my sudan to work this morning. :) Looks like a transcript of a Congressional hearing came close to ruining the day for American and Sudanese government officials. Sometimes when you conduct secret nuclear tests in Sedan, it sounds like Sudan. What I’d like to know is what enterprising diplomat from Sudan came up with the idea of immediately blaming the U.S. for cancer cases from a nuclear test that didn’t happen there? I’m surprised that story didn’t get more play. ...