No special meaning to the two-two-two beyond the frisson you get when you notice that your odometer is full of the same digits (only a couple more months until I see five fives on that). But hey, I notice stuff like that, and know folks for whom that number has significance.
Not so much with the work yesterday. Landed another hosting client, and spent some time setting that up, but mostly I was waiting for the phone call from a client offering me work that never came.
- Steph thinks she’s found
the perfect meld of home improvement and Mac geekdom
for me — the iPort. I dunno. I guess I’d be more interested if I listened to music more often, and had more money to spend on home improvement, but I spend most of my days basking in silence, so it goes onto the list, but pretty far down. [steph] - From the Well, DUH! department, Office Sweeties Have No Secrets and if you expect to get away with having a secret romance using IM and email without anyone in the IT department noticing, you probably should put down the mouse and step away from the keyboard. [wired]
- The ChoicePoint Massive ID theft touches state (of Minnesota). They’re supposed to finish notifying people this week, but how are you supposed to even know if ChoicePoint has your personal data? You can’t know for sure, but they almost certainly do. And you may be one of the lucky 145,000 people nationwide, or 2400 in Minnesota whose data got leaked, and you just have to hope they’ll tell you if you were. Claire has more on ChoicePoint, saying the worst identity thieves aren’t the ones who take your wallet. [press-patch and claire]
- The Strib says Local officials blogging for readers far and wide, and then gives RT’s blog a single line, and no link. I wonder what other Minneapolis politicians they didn’t bother to mention. [strib]
- Speaking of elections, the Geek With A .45 has Thoughts On This Year’s Slate For The NRA Board of Directors, and recommendations for those of us without the time or energy to dig up any information at all on the candidates ourselves.
- Apple has announced that WWDC 2005 will be in early June, instead of in late June or early July like last year. I sure wish they’d settle down with their schedule for that. I’m not nailing a schedule down that far out, and I think earlier is generally better, but ADHOC is going to be in late July, and I’m having to mentally shuffle my schedule a bit. Both conferences now fall when the Saints are mostly out of town, or playing the Railcats for the couple home games I'll miss if I attend both. Since the Railcats have been in the NL cellar lately, those are probably good games to miss, but I was happier when WWDC collided with Mother’s Day, rather than baseball season.
- And a not-safe-for-work link early in the week: mr. heathen is a gal who’s experimenting with testosterone. You may want to go back to the beginning and read forward from there, but it’s fascinating watching a chick describing how she’s started feeling like a horny teenage boy. Don’t try this at home, kids. [boing boing]