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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-11-07

  • How can you tell if Lady Gaga is dressing up for Halloween? Seriously, I'm really asking. #
  • Have a respectful All Souls' Day everyone! #
  • And, once again, the Steelers are defeated by… Bruce Arians! #
  • It doesn't seem right that Election Day and All Soul's Day fall on the same day this year… #
  • I know it's early still, but Wolf Blitzer looks like he's gonna cry already… #
  • Holy Crap! @WagnerOfficial was on the Adam Carolla podcast! Check it out! #
  • is glad we will never hear the words "Speaker Pelosi" again. #
  • GA GOP chair Sue Everhart: “This is not an election. This is a restraining order against Barack Obama.” #
  • Happy birthday LaMarr Woodley! Keep being a BEAST out there, OK? 🙂 #
  • OMG! I just realized that the actress who plays Anna Draper on "Mad Men" is the same woman from "Sleeping Dogs Lie"! Ewwwwwww! #
  • Does anyone really care what @DrPizza thinks about politics? #
  • If this GT-VT game were a movie, it'd be called "The Teams That Couldn't Play Defense"! #
  • "Never do anything you wouldn't want to explain to a paramedic!" #
  • So @MorrisJenkins is following me? Why couldn't they call me back a few years ago when I wanted a quote? Guess they didn't need our $5000! #
  • Ha-Ha!Keith Olbermann suspended from MSNBC "indefinitely without pay"! http://tinyurl.com/38nxfgk #
  • Anyone who votes Labour is an idiot! #
  • @jenny_wade And Charlotte thinks YOU look pretty today… 'though you always do!) #
  • Oh my gosh… SO MANY baked goods! #

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Mozy Fail

I have a client who uses a server-based POS application. They also have a remote office, where the “server” is actually a standard Windows XP desktop computer… that an employee actually uses every day as her “work computer”.

So anyway, she apparently got a virus on that computer yesterday, and as a precaution I logged on to Mozy to download the two previous day’s backups. After requesting the restore, I couldn’t help but giggle when I saw this:

Mozy Fail

Nice.

For the record, the remote office is three hours away, and I don’t really admin anything there or have a say in how things work at that office.

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Website News

Hi folks! Just a quick couple of updates today:

You might have noticed that the AllConsuming widgets (the “What I’m Reading” and “What I’m Listening To” boxes in the sidebar) have stopped working. This is apparently a problem on AllConsuming’s end. I don’t know how long this will take to fix, and in fact I can’t find any kind of information about it. I just wanted to let you folks know so you don’t think there’s anything wrong with your browser.

Also, I’d just like to remind RSS fans that this site also has a FeedBurner address. If you’d prefer using FeedBurner over the native WordPress feed, you can find it at:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/jimcofer/feed

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Quote of the Day

“The President, both as Commander-in-Chief and as the Nation’s organ for foreign affairs, has available intelligence services whose reports are not and ought not to be published to the world. It would be intolerable that courts, without the relevant information, should review and perhaps nullify actions of the Executive taken on information properly held secret. Nor can courts sit in camera in order to be taken into executive confidences. But even if courts could require full disclosure, the very nature of executive decisions as to foreign policy is political, not judicial. Such decisions are wholly confided by our Constitution to the political departments of the government, Executive and Legislative. They are delicate, complex, and involve large elements of prophecy. They are and should be undertaken only by those directly responsible to the people whose welfare they advance or imperil. They are decisions of a kind for which the Judiciary has neither aptitude, facilities nor responsibility and which has long been held to belong in the domain of political power not subject to judicial intrusion or inquiry.”

– Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc. v. Waterman S.S. Corp (1948)

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FRIDAY FUN: Favre gets it

I hate Brett Favre, and I love seeing guys get hit in the nuts… so what could be better than an animated GIF of Brett Favre getting hit in the nuts during practice? Not a whole lot, let me tell you!

Favre Nuts

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Connections

You can be forgiven for not having heard the name James Chadwick before. No, not the Nobel prize-winning British physicist who discovered the neutron. I’m talking about the one who lived a century earlier. This James Chadwick is an obscure figure in British history. He is barely remembered, if at all, in Britain, and is more or less completely unknown outside his home country. But his life displays a mind-bogglingly interesting series of strange connections that shows just how amazingly connected history can be.

To begin with, his father, Andrew Chadwick, was a good friend of John Wesley, the Church of England reformer who, along with his brother Charles, founded the “Methodist Movement”. This sect, which emphasized open-air evangelical preaching, eventually became the Methodist Church, a Protestant denomination with around 12 million members today. Andrew also started the first Sunday School in the county of Lancashire.

Andrew apparently practiced what he preached when it came to giving his money away to the less fortunate. Unlike other sons of Britain’s rich, James was forced to get a job and provide for his family. So he began his adult life as a teacher. History doesn’t record if James was a good or bad teacher, but he must have done something right, because one of his pupils, John Dalton, is generally credited with discovering the atom and for doing the first major research into color blindness, which was for years called Daltonism in his honor.

James later left teaching to become a journalist, and to that end he spent time in Paris. There he was a roommate of the Anglo-American revolutionary Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense, which popularized the American Revolution, The Crisis, which urged Americans not to abandon hope in the darkest hours of the revolution, and The Rights of Man, a treatise on human rights inspired by the French Revolution.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-31

  • Soooooo full of Thai black pepper chicken… and La La Jalapeno… and Thai basil chicken… and egg rolls… and fried rice! #
  • has a new DVD burner. It cost $16.99. Remember when burners only burned CDs at 2x and cost $400? #
  • The Mac Book Air: netbook-level hardware at a high-end laptop price! #
  • I just got a friend request on MySpace from Kate Walsh (yes, the actress). WTF?!? #
  • R.I.P., Danno http://tinyurl.com/3xq7rzk #
  • "Liberalism gene" found (seriously). Could a medical solution be on the way? 🙂 http://tinyurl.com/39yvg45 #
  • Lisa made me banana chocolate chip pancakes for dinner… do I have the best girlfriend in the world or what? I love you, hunny! #
  • @mitomommy Yaaaaaaa! 🙂 How you're all well! in reply to mitomommy #
  • "Let me make a recommendation: filthy Vietnamese prostitute. And I'm not talking one you get on the pier. I'm talking the back of an alley, #
  • Bwhahahahaha!!! GO GATORS! #
  • Chloe: "Momma, whyfor you not bring me a chalupa?" #
  • What's my favorite Atlanta-based zombie TV show? Why "The Walking Dead", of course! Debuts TONIGHT at 10 on AMC! #

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Quote of the Day

“Houses are amazingly complex repositories. What I found, to my great surprise, is that whatever happens in the world – whatever is discovered or created or bitterly fought over – eventually ends up, in one way or another, in your house. Wars, famines, the Industrial Revolution, the Enlightenment – they are all there in your sofas and chests of drawers, tucked into the folds of your curtains, in the downy softness of your pillows, in the paint on your walls and the water in your pipes. So the history of household life isn’t just a history of beds and sofas and kitchen stoves, as I vaguely supposed it would be, but of scurvy and guano and the Eiffel Tower and bedbugs and body-snatching and just about everything else that has ever happened. Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”

– Bill Bryson
At Home: A Short History of Private Life

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FRIDAY FUN: Nigella Lawson

Nigella Lawson is, of course, an English author and TV personality. Born to Nigel Lawson, Conservative MP and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher, Nigella got a master’s degree in medieval and modern languages. She then began writing book reviews for The Spectator, a job she parlayed into a career as a restaurant critic. She freelanced for several newspapers and food-related magazines before releasing her first book, How to Eat, in 1998. Several other books and TV shows have followed.

Here’s a picture of her from a few years ago:

Nigella Lawson
(click to enlarge)

Rawr!

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The Ecstasy

As a Steelers fan, I should be concerned with what goes on in the AFC North. And actually, I am. Every time the Ratbirds and Bungles lose I smile, and there’s a deep joy in my heart every time the Steelers beat the Brownies… which is often.

But as an AFC North fan, I get awfully tired of the national sports media slobbering all over the NFC Least. I couldn’t care less about the New York Giants, or the Philadelphia Eagles, or the Deadskins… but I do have a special hate for the Dallas Cowboys. This hate, born in the 70s, used to get deeper and deeper every year… but it’s more like pity. Now that the Cowboys have Tony Romo, I laugh like Vincent Price every time he bungles a snap or throws a pick at the worst possible time… which is, like the Steelers beating the Browns, quite often.

Imagine my joy when I saw this on Sunday:

romo_down

heh. No, I’m not laughing because Tony Romo is hurt. He’ll get better, and as I understand it, he won’t even need surgery. I laugh because it just makes me happy to see the SS Jerry Jones going down like the friggin’ Titanic with Wade Phillips at the helm. And the amazing thing is that Dallas has talent. To ape Winston Churchill, never was so little done by so many with so much talent. It almost makes me wish that someone would take highlights from Dallas’ season, speed them up, and put the whole thing to the theme song from The Benny Hill Show. Oh wait:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=airOuFuZVr8