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Well, I'm not much of one for New Year's resolutions. As you might have noticed by this evening's mad blogging, I'm more of a tie-up-loose-ends-before-the-year's-over sort of person so, over the past hour I've finally gotten around to posting things that probably should have been spread out over some of those days this month when I didn't post anything at all.
Oh well. At least I can start the new year with a reasonably clean slate here. Blogging goals include actually writing more—which implies having a life that's actually interesting to write about!—and gaining more skills to improve the look and performance of the ol' blog.
Still about half an hour until midnight. Guess I'll probably just watch the fireworks at the Space Needle on tv—it's just been so long since I've had the energy to party...
Not that I'm into much action at a New Year's Eve party anyway. In fact, the parties I remember most fondly were a few years back when the underage kids and other non-drinkers in our Star Trek club would meet and play Clue for three or four hours. (Even we thought it was a little weird that a group of science fiction fans would chose a non-sf game but however it happened, it ended up being a tradition.) At midnight we'd go outside and shoot off fireworks which had been carefully saved since July. That was it. Everybody was home and in bed by 1 a.m. Simple but fun.
§ - Provo Canyon Syndrome - Utah Mountainside Bombed to Allow Search for Snowboarders - Gee, it's been a long tradition for folks to drown while tubing in the Provo River during spring runoff when the water is fast and deep. I see they've now found a new weather-dependent way to get themselves killed in the canyon.
§ - Eat a Tumbled Cookie? - "Oops! You've dropped your Oreo on the floor. Do you pick it up and eat it?"
And why can black people be proud of being black, and Asian people can be proud of being Asian, and that's no problem, but if a white person is proud to be white, then that person is racist? What? Should I be ashamed to be Caucasian? I think NOT.
I started doing research about car alarms and discovered that they were totally useless in preventing car theft. That's when this really became, you know, a vendetta.
Human waste falls under a newly created category that the Legislature created last spring: potentially dangerous litter. Human waste, dirty diapers, cigarettes, cigars, tobacco or other items that can start a fire, and hypodermic needles or medical instruments designed to cut or pierce, fall into that category.
Seems like a lot of offenders could be tracked by DNA. How cost effective that might be I don't know.
"It is warfare of a different kind, fought on a battleground right in our backyards. And, with Christmas just a few days away, shopping centre car parks are the place for parking rage rather than Christmas cheer."
Mr. Kriger won a patent last month for a vehicle that can regularly weigh drivers, track pounds lost or gained, and warn them when they are overeating.
A drunken man unlocked a police vehicle and drove off in the early hours of Wednesday morning believing it to be his own car, but later turned himself in after realizing what he had done, police said.
The 32-year-old man was charged with stealing the car from the parking lot of the Uraga police station in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was on his way home after a party and went to the vehicle, which was locked, believing it to be his car. He was apparently able to open the door with the key for his own car and start the engine, according to the police.
A blackmail threat could target any user connected to the Internet. The cyber blackmailer sends an initial e-mail claiming to have hacked a corporate network or to have broken into a home user's system. The amount of money the hacker demands usually is modest in comparison to previous computer blackmail schemes.
Mr. Ralsky said he has come to the conclusion that the law is more one-sided than he originally thought. Internet providers, he figures, will be able to tag and discard his mail with more certainty.
I certainly hope the ISPs do exactly that!!! Legal or not, it's still garbage to me.
Bye Bye 2003!
Bloggers Cook
Road Hazards!
