Friday, July 25, 2003

The Fable Of The Keys - debunking the bit about Dvorak keyboards being more effective than QWERTY ones, and that QWERTY ones supposedly cause slower typing.

Skirt Trouble - A member of an Illinois school board was forced to apologize after commenting during a meeting on the length of women’s skirts. Timothy Knudsen was accused of telling speakers during a meeting of the Niles Township school board’s Finance Committee, "to keep your comments like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject, but brief enough to keep me interested."


Oh gee. Someone thinks so highly of me.

"you're just gonna be one of those weird loser people whose greatest achievement was coming from rj"

Actually I think that all sorts of news gets my attention - the tudung in primary schools affair, or the car crashing into the MRT tracks would have/did get my attention too, so.

Monday, July 21, 2003

Atheist
Threat rating: extremely low. You may think you can
subvert the government, but if you should try
you will be smited mightily because God likes
us best.


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Woman dumps man for his online alter ego - A Taiwan man who used a different identity through the Internet to double-date his girlfriend, has committed suicide after the girl fell for his email-based alter ego

At least *I* wasn't dumped for my alter ego.

Sunday, July 20, 2003

Flying off sunday afternoon ... bye bye till december!