OK, yes, ou can change the color of your scroll bar on your web page. Thank you very much. It’s only mildly confusing. I can live with it.
But apparently IE 6 also lets people move the scroll bar to the left side of the browser. Not cool. I found someone’s web page who did that [...]

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You know, I could complain about politics today, but instead I think I’ll just send you over to Howard Kurtz at the Washington Post. His rant about doubletalk is pretty much where I am these days. So. On to more trivial stuff instead.
Sarah’s new pennywhistle arrived yesterday. It’s a brass Burke, and I’m sure at [...]

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OK, enough with the politics for the time being. There are other things in my life, like cable television and beaches. Perhaps I should start with the cable television.
For almost as long as I can remember, cable television has been a utility more than anything else. Whenever my family moved anywhere, getting cable was a [...]

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There’s an interesting analysis of Bush’s inability to generate much anti-Iraq sentiment over at TomPaine.com. Richard Blow is of the opinion that Bush’s media censorship is costing him at home. There’s no news about the war because news isn’t allowed out; and there’s only so much empty speculation you can take. I’m certain that has [...]

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Finally! I figured out how to get the Enneagram test to work. Here’s a clue: you have to link to the root page, not the perl script. :-)
So why do we enjoy these test so much when they tell us what we already know about ourselves? I know I’m an INFP; do I need a [...]

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