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Good News: The zany Deutsch programmers at iCab churned out a maintenance release (now at v2.7.1). It fixes some of the nasties that I saw in my hotlist -- iCab makes a backup of your hotlist before doing things to it, so I was able to easily recover from the hiccup before they sent out this new version, anyway. :-) Still no change in how iCab handles CSS positioning. bleah.
Bad News: I'm still locked out of the web application at work, and the sys admins for the various bits of it are all scratching their heads over my situation. Not good at all.
Double-bleah. Alwin sez to me:
... Guess you'd better move on...
Hmmm. Maybe not just yet, Al. <link-ho checks his referer page> Your numbers have been picking up today. Tuesday is the slowest day for retailers, and it must also be a good day for your readers to catch up on you. :-) They must have gone to great lengths to breed that much pettiness into those administrators...
* A FEDERAL JUDGE ruled last week that a Web-hosting company has until February 8 to reveal the identity of a professor who has anonymously published a Web site criticizing administrators at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. --> SEE http://chronicle.com/free/2002/01/2002012901t.htm The anonymous prof's website had outed some folks at ULM for misuse of funds, among other things, basically acting as the Winerlog for ULM administrators and their actions. The president of ULM did resign last year, after an audit revealed a pattern of misuse of funds. Now the ULM VP of External Affairs wants to file defamation and slander charges against the anonymous whistleblower(s), and is trying to force the webhost (Homestead) to pony up the name(s). On the site, while rumors are clearly identified as being rumors, it is clear that a great deal of facts were being reported, too. Pretty scary that this has already gone past a Federal judge who thinks that outing the prof is a good idea, even though the VP hasn't presented any evidence yet that might justify the allegations of defamation.
Then again, we're paying good tax money for dresses on statues so the US AG won't have boobies seen over his noggin. The investigation into BurningbirdGate continues... Today's episode involves testimony involves denial of the charges at hand. Ms. Burningbird, you claim they were not bribes. But what was the reaction to the offering of the mugs? Thirty (30) mice were sqeaking in your comments for that post alone! Granted, your own ten comments are mixed in there, but it still generated a fair bit of flow toward your blog, and cross-blog commentary. You may call them party favors if you like, you may even call them political donations, but they still smell like bribes to me. Besides, you write all cute 'n' stuff when you get defensive. ;-)
And no, I am not an Aussie, but if I've had a few brews and haven't showered that day, I do remind myself of some of the Aussies I've known. :-)
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