technorati hath failed me

…or at least annoyed me today. I’m new to this “Web 2.0″:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 thing, but I’ve been getting up to speed over the last few weeks. To do so, I got hooked into Flickr, del.icio.us, and Technorati among others. More on all that later. I’ve also been “a bit busy at work”:http://evdb.com/blog/, too, so I wasn’t [...]

Hello, World!

If you can read this, then it means the creation of the new Tech sub-blog is complete. It’s alive! _fiendish cackle_

Sticks and Stones

For the naming challenged I present the Institute for Naming Children Humanely.” You might laugh, but have you been checking on celebrity baby names lately? It’s a sad, scary state of affairs.

the end of NPR?

This may sound like something out of a “Snopes entry”:http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/pbs.asp, but it looks like the House is actually looking to “cut all funding for NPR and PBS”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/09/AR2005060902283.html over the next two years. If that angers you as much as it does me, then consider signing the “MoveOn petition telling Congress to save NPR and PBS”:http://www.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/.

Happy Birthday, Karen!

As the girl in the Midwest with East Coast time (doesn’t make sense to me either), I get to be the first one to wish kk a happy,happy, happy birthday! By the way, this shows up third on Google if you search “Happy Birthday Karen.”