Bornfamous

I mean, without actually providing any useful service or anything. Hey, I’m game.

Rachel Corrie
(1979-2003)
“Rachel Corrie, an International Solidarity Movement activist from Olympia, Washington, was killed by the Israeli Army on Sunday, March 16 as she was trying to stop the illegal demolition of a Palestinian home in Gaza. May God make her blessed memory a reminder and an inspiration to all of us to stand against [...]

Yep, I’m now a proud member of the latest craze sweeping blogdom:

Buy my shares and I’ll buy yours, okay? Yes, I’m catching that blogwhore fever again. It’s wonderful, isn’t it? [Could it be the war, I wonder? Remember after 9/11, how we all were stirred into a frenzy of blogging that lasted for months? Just [...]

At last, I can communicate with my son.

I love times like this when there’s work that absolutely must be done on a short deadline. Makes me want to write again, you know?
Yes, I have actual, paying work to do. Finally. With the fear of eviction to goad me, I worked up the nerve to make one cold call in hopes of drumming [...]

I majorly screwed up this blog today when I tried to delete badly imported old archives and replace them with corrected ones. [Hint: don't save your exported MT backup file as html. It's TXT! Don't forget.]
What happened was, I got incredibly sleepy while manually deleting hundreds of posts going back two years… and forgot [...]

“In a move wireless industry analysts say will infringe on customers’ privacy, clothing designer Benetton plans to weave radio frequency ID chips into its garments to track its clothes worldwide.
“The chips will help the Italian clothing manufacturer cut costs by eliminating the need for workers to take inventory by manually scanning individual items of clothing. [...]

A roundup of the usual suspects that cause most respiratory ailments would include influenza and the common cold, the tuberculosis bacillus, and man-made agents, such as air pollution particulates and second-hand cigarette smoke.
“Respiratory therapists who have learned respiratory care from the ground up, as it were, would add another item to that list: fungi spores [...]

Remember when you were little and wondered how life would turn out. Well, look around because this is how it turned out. –How to write a book in 10 days

Now we’re getting somewhere. How does it look on your monitor? Can you read everything? Let me know if you have trouble seeing links, text or anything else. I think this is a LOT easier on the eyes, don’t you?

“Topical application of honey is beneficial in the treatment of wounds and burns, according to a review article in the Journal of Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing (2002;29:295?300).
“Honey is a highly concentrated sugar solution produced by honey bees, primarily from the nectar of plants. It is composed of carbohydrates (sugars), water, enzymes, amino acids, [...]

Pay no attention to the color scheme. I got too tired to do any more. Yech. It was actually okay for awhile there, but do you think I’d bother to save all the variations? Ha.

Well, this is a little better. Still working on the color scheme. Hope you don’t hate it.

How to clean your house without hurting the planet

Where is Raed ?: “Today in the morning I went with my father for a ride around Baghdad and there was nothing different from yesterday.”