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Today I saw several Comcast trucks in my condo complex. When I asked, they said the equipment was being upgraded and we can now get cable modem here.
I’ll probably switch, since BellSouth DSL can be painfully slow at times and I have very frequent disconnects.

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I had to set my iChat privacy to block anyone not on my buddy list since I’m starting to get too much spam.

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Several months ago, I joined OpenOffice.org and downloaded the source, although I haven’t done much with it. I’ve tried running the application itself (which currently runs under X11) and I find that I dread launching it. OOo is a huge application that loads the word processor, spreadsheet, and other modules when launched. It’s even bigger, [...]

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This is awesome!

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Daniel Carter is currently being housed in a questionable area of Escambia County Jail with Adults in Cells all around him.
Florida law states that juvenile inmates must be out of sight and sound of adult inmates while housed in adult facilities. [Justice for Juveniles]

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I need to fix a bug for this release, but the other programmer has the file I need checked out so he can add a feature that isn’t needed immediately. We don’t allow multiple checkouts. *sigh*

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I find that driving affects my mood more than almost anything else. I decided to go to my favorite lunch place in Wilton Manors.
As I approached Oakland Park Blvd, the traffic was at a standstill. My inner New Yorker took over and I started blowing my horn. The jerk in front of me in [...]

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From Salon:

The Pentagon is quietly moving to fill draft board vacancies nationwide. While officials say there’s no cause to worry, some experts aren’t so sure.
The community draft boards that became notorious for sending reluctant young men off to Vietnam have languished sinced the early 1970s, their membership ebbing and their purpose all but lost when [...]

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From Life and Deatherage:
Since everyone else seems to be doing it, I thought I’d give it a try. It says I have an “economic left/right” score of -4.25, and a “libertarian/authoritarian” score of -6.41. Seems about right, I guess. I never felt very Cartesian about any of this, though.
Tim Lambert is tracking [...]

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This is what I did today. We met at Hagen Park in Wilton Manors and spread out around nearby communities in groups of 2. Each group knocked on 20 doors. My group found 6 interested voters, 2 not interested, and left the surveys for the remaining ones where nobody was home. Pictured is Wilton Manors [...]

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