Rob Eberhardt

Speaking of Vacations, during my 400-mile drive I noticed several semis/trailer-trucks with this bumper sticker:

I wondered why I've never seen anything like the opposite sticker, which of course would be

Then I realized, that's the basic difference: Pro-Choice folks prefer to avoid addressing the larger issue of What it is (a life).  The two sides aren't having the same conversation. 

I've heard it said that we have the right to "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness", in that order.  This means my right to Pursue Happiness stops at the point when it would interfere with someone else's right to Liberty, which in turn stops at the point when it would interfere with someone's right to continue Living.

So it's an easy call to me: prove it's absolutely not a human life, and Sure, do what you want.  But if there's even a slight chance that it is a human life (and Biology 101 makes me think so) ...do I want to risk taking it?

Hm, maybe there's a bumper sticker idea:

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Rough week for Firefox team.

That's a lotta badness for what is hardly a "new" browser anymore.

I have a new client who recently guessed their way through a SBS 2003 setup.  THEN they called us to fix it.  This has been quite the cleanup.  I gotta get me a Haz-mat suit.  Imagine and enjoy at my expense, some highlights:

• Exchange mailboxes not configured for the POP3 Connector (so email was removed from the ISP's mailbox, and dropped into Oblivion).
• No backups, no (or patchy) virus/spyware protection (and plenty of spyware).
• Moving from a XP Pro "server", which fell apart when we tried to join it to the domain (due to loads of spyware).
• XP Home machines trying to use the new server.
• No extra CALs for the 12 user accounts.  Yes, that's 12 users competing for the 5 licenses that come with SBS.  "Denied!"

And now (drumroll please)...

Crap.

So I just saw this on Ajaxian Blog: "Ajax is rocket science". "Ajax isn't simple". Enough already!

It makes good points, but what puzzles me is: who is saying this?  I never found Ajax difficult (even when I first discovered it 5 years ago).  Are the complainers just web designers, who just build pretty-but-static HTML pages and don't know coding (-vs- web developers, who build web apps)? 

Well, as Scott would say:
And then I got back to work.

but no, I haven't been deep in the NetHack dungeons (I wish!).  Rather, every client (current or not) called me simultaneously needing something... ....AND every computer I possess simultaneously broke.

Sure, it's an ego-boost to be in-demand, but that novelty wears off very quickly when I'm making bricks without straw.