Whew. Things are much more comfortable after last night’s storm. The sky got that ominous yellow color for a little while, and then there was some rain. Today, the dewpoints are supposed to drop into the 50s and that feels a ton better. Just in time for me to need to mow the lawn again this weekend.
Some days I surprise myself. Yesterday was one of those. I expected I’d need to spend all day tracking down a particularly nasty bug, but after a brief flash of inspiration, I looked to see what changes other people had made that might affect things. Bingo! The problem wasn’t mine at all, but rather someone who had clobbered a bug fix I’d put in over six months ago. It would be frustrating if I hadn’t found it as quickly as I did, but that bit of inspiration meant that I was actually ahead of my self-imposed schedule on work, and I took the opportunity for a mid-afternoon nap, and woke up feeling much refreshed. Some last-minute updates to the ADHOC site and I finished the day feeling pretty good, except for a bit of JavaScript that isn’t doing what I think it should.
Today, I think I’m going to try to knock off a few more bugs, do a little noodling on some of my websites (I desperately need to update the Better Nerds site one of these days), and go out grocery shopping so I can restock the pantry. Seems like a pretty good plan for the day to me.
- There are other companies out there where Benefits go soft, including things like a shorter work week. One of the reasons I started my own business was that I was looking for a shorter and more flexible work week. Now, a little more than five years later, bigger companies are catching up. [press-patch]
- In an interesting development from Iraq, Al-Sabah reports
Iraqi political sources on anonymity affirmed that the detaining of [Khudir] al- Dori by the Iraqi security departments resulted in the seize of three nuclear heads missiles. … The sources were quoted as saying that these nuclear missiles were found in tunnel underground at six meters length were covered carefully to mislead sensitive scientific apparatuses detecting for these weapons.
It was reported by UPI as well (and later retracted), but the Instapundit is reporting that Reuters is saying the story isstupid
. I expected to hear more about this, but the only update (aside from the retraction) I can find is from Al-Sabah, which doesn’t really say anything new, and a brief mention in a market update which pointed out that the dollar rose on the report. [instapundit] - Skyway News Online has an excellent article on the history behind the One Day In July street festival Jim’s been working on. Check it out if you’re interested in either Minnesota history or labor politics. It’s an interesting story. It’s also interesting how the Teamsters aren’t actually having anything to do with this year’s commemoration.
- Tired of talking about the scandals of the day, the InstaPundit did some hard-hitting reporting that’s of more use in your everyday life than anything you’ll read about Sandy Berger’s Pants. [instapundit]
- A handful of McDonald’s restaurants are now offering a A Drive-Through Lane to the Next Time Zone, with a remote call center taking the orders in the drive-through. Besides having people whose only job is to take orders, the system snaps a picture of the driver, and that’s used at the pickup window to make sure they’re giving the right person the right order. One of the seven locations that uses the system is in Brainerd. [papascott]
- You may have heard about the article by the woman who was worried by some Syrians on a Northwest flight back around the start of July. Turns out, it was just the backing band for The Syrian Wayne Newton who apparently don’t know much about airplane etiquette. Most importantly, nobody bothered to talk to the guys, or they might have found that out at the time. [lileks]