Time to dump some of the funnier and lighter links. Usually I do this on Fridays, but I guess this week Friday comes early.
- I’ve had some weird calls on my cellphone lately. They’re all calling for Hussein, and coming from 255-743-XXXXXX or 952-217-XXXX or an UNKNOWN and finally a BLOCKED number. The 952 number is local, but the one starting with 255 has a country code for Tanzania with way more digits than I would expect. The most recent round of calls were at 5am yesterday morning. The thing that bugs me the most is that these people don’t seem to understand the concept of
wrong number
and call back a half-dozen times each. Not sure what I can do about it, but I calling Sprint yesterday morning was completely unsatisfying. Maybe I need to learn Arabic forWrong fargin number, camel-breath.
It’s not that I bear these people any particular ill-will, but I sure would like Hussein to quit giving out my number. - I forgot to mention that Monday night’s dinner with the boss was at Barley John’s Brew Pub. Good food, and good beer. Not cheap, and the decor was nothing special, but if it were a little closer to home, there’s a good chance it would become a regular stopping point.
- Simon Gerber takes a look at Switching to Windows: Not as easy as you think. That would be the understatement of the year from my perspective. It appears that Petzold’s book is the one I need to learn the programming side of the equation. As for the user-interface… I don’t think I’ll ever be comfortable there.
- A neat little article on Smoking out photo hoaxes with software. This sort of thing is more interesting to me lately and gets discussed around the workplace every now and again.
- I’m not exactly sure why, but when I heard that Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams, it made me a little sad. [kottke]
- It’s not often that Steveo agrees with President Bush, but they both seem to be in favor of Fursecution. But when Bush was talking about the sanctity of human life, I was reminded of the plight of the rippers in Tank Girl, and suddenly I’m not so sure I agree with either of them. [steveo]
- Cory talks about Black sf writers and white sf, but completely fails to mention Steven Barnes, who’s written a book or two and blogs about a bunch of things, including writing about race. [boing boing]
