Archive for January 29th, 2005

I want it on the record that someone with a PC laptop is having problems.

Saturday, January 29th, 2005

A few of you know about the many problems my Mac has been giving me. I’m tired of all the “Well, why didn’t you just buy a PC?” comments. Here’s evidence that PCs give people problems, too, unfortunately. I believe no machine is going to work flawlessly 100% of the time.
Besides, many of my tech [...]

Two from Weekend America

Saturday, January 29th, 2005

I heard two snippets worth mentioning on this blog on today’s Weekend America radio show. Usually, I would point to each as a separate item, but it doesn’t look like I can point to the individual segments, so I’m putting them into one blog entry.
Chris Spurgeon says a few words about Slashdot, a Web site [...]

Radio Shows that do Podcasting

Saturday, January 29th, 2005

are going to help me fill my new iPod.
Saturday is usually my day to veg with the radio. I tune to a local National Public Radio affiliate and just leave it on for hours. There are two shows I always try to catch. (They dropped a third more than a year ago and I still [...]

Word of the Day Feed with a Definition

Saturday, January 29th, 2005

The Dictionary.com Word of the Day feed included a definition in my aggregator today. I’m sure that’s just a mistake. Why would they choose to do something that’s practical and sensical after only distributing the Word of the Day for so long?

Harvard President Subpeonaed in Librarian Discrimination Case

Saturday, January 29th, 2005

According to the Boston Herald, a librarian suing Harvard for discrimination subpeonaed President Lawrence H. Summers. Librarian Desiree Goodwin seems to have been passed over for promotion thirteen times in the last ten years. She feels she is being overlooked because she is black and because of how she dresses.
I wrote a synopsis of this [...]


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