Posts from — May 2008

If you feel like doing something good, you can make a quick donation to UNICEF or Direct Relief International for cyclone victims here. The page is really easy to use, and you don’t have to worry about getting spammed or anything.

“You most likely know it as Myanmar, but it’ll always be Burma to me.”

Ugh…
Fla. Teacher Accused Of Wizardry.

That’s Florida in the US… in 2008.

The good news is that Land O’ Lakes, FL exists.

As of today, Google Reader has annotations on shared items. This means that when I mark something as shared, I can put a note about my thoughts about it, why I’m sharing it, etc. It’s a long-requested feature that makes sharing a lot more interesting, I think.

Anyway, this post isn’t an advertisement for Reader, but a notification that I’ll be shifting some of my shorter link-focused posts from this blog to my link blog. If you’re not my friend in Reader, you might want to subscribe to that. It’s around a post a day, but bursty. It’s generally less technical than the average post on this blog, too. The headlines are available on the left side of http://www.magicspatula.com/blog, too.

I’m pretty sure I have more going on in May than the first four months of the year combined. I’m exhausted already, but there are lots of things to look forward to. Details once I catch up a bit.

From an email with meeting notes:
“Three walkaways from the meeting:”

No, this doesn’t mean that three people walked away during the meeting, I think they meant “takeaways”. Is this a real term?

I have caught myself saying “let’s discuss that offline” (to mean outside of the meeting), but there’s no sign of “synergy” or anything, thankfully.