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For my buddy, Stan Herman, who has been playing around with some thoughts about the «Posthuman» world, here is another link to Francis Fukuyama.

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Again someone takes a crack at blogging. Someone, I might add, who doesn't blog.

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This Knowledge Base article WD2002: How to Set the Default Font in Word 2002 provides a solution to a dilemma my buddy, Paul Moor, is having with Microsoft Word 2002.

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I had an exhausting day at work today. Recent changes to our database have resulted in a lot of errors that are being channeled through me before being sent to the client for resolution. We used to get about 10 or 15 of these a day. In the week since the change to the database, that number has increased to between 50 and 100 a day. After a night's rest tonight, I'm going to work tomorrow (on my day off) to try to complete the weekly summary that was due «as early as possible» on Friday. I'll be lucky if it's ready on Monday morning. Ah, the joys of working for minimum wage!

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From Bob Frankston's blog this morning comes this notice.

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My time for posting to this web log has been in short supply lately. In the evenings, I've been too tired and uninspired to post anything, and in the mornings, I've been busy.

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Having had a few encounters with the latest infestation of the Internet, the KLEZ virus/worm, I found this blurb from The Bat's website comforting.

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This afternoon we had a hail storm here at the house. It lasted about five minutes, and within about 10 minutes the sun was out. My neighbor's car was badly dented, but apparently I was lucky because my car was under a tree. Still, this was a really awesome display of nature's fury.

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Interesting! While reading other people's blogs this morning I ran across the following.

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This article, A New Risk to Computers Worldwide, in today's New York Times is worth reading. It describes the threat thusly. «The program, W32/KLEZ.H, is a «blended threat,» combining elements of a virus, which infects machines, and a worm, which transports itself from machine to machine. It also tries to disable some antivirus programs.»

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