Triumphant Return

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Okay, I finally worked out what I did wrong when I set up my domain forwarding from Blogger to Hover. Now, the website is once again functioning.

First order of business will be to put the webcomics I did in the interim in this space. Enjoy!

Facebook

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So I deleted almost all of my personal profile info from my Facebook account, including the list of all my previous employers (which I put up mostly as a reminder next time I have to update my resume).

Got that? Deleted all the information from MY account profile, not just the visibility settings. I can no longer access that information, because I deleted it.

Or so I thought.

Today Facebook offered to suggest potential friends for me based on ALL of the deleted entries in my employment history. It is actually using private information about ME which even I do not have access to.

Is Diaspora ready yet? Sigh.

Here to Help

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Immediately after turning in a research paper that was assigned to meet new state and regulatory guidelines rather than to enhance the educational potential of my class, I was grousing to myself about how yes, writing is important in all professions, but to require a written component in every class simply undermines the purpose of the Composition class we had to take as a prerequisite.

Then I saw this sign:

Now, here’s a case where writing skills would have helped tremendously. In a classic error of business/technical communication, the point is made, and then the writer continued to dribble on with an explanatory phrase.

It would be much more effective if it simply read:

So, being in a helpful mood, I dashed off a supportive note to give the writer, and hopefully the impressionable students who walk by the sign, some positive guidance. Because I’m a giver. Here’s the note.

The “Thanks!” on the end is to show I’m not a jerk.

10 Images

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Concept: Select 10 self-generated images that express something about you. My twitterbuddy @HoorayCookies did this on her blog (click this post’s title to link there) and I like it. I also like my image collection. So here.

This was pen tablet practice, part of my ongoing effort to get a webcomic started.

It’s a flashlight. And a magnet. And a frickin laser beam.

On the way to see The Watchmen, I was overcome with the sheer verticality of what Rick was doing.

Someone was comparing me to a celebrity. I offered this handy spotting guide to avoid mixups.

He’s sticking his tongue out.

Built that.

Three angry dogs in a Honda Odyssey.

The ancestral home. Imagine my surprise that there was one.
Sammy.
Fine, I didn’t create it. But I really couldn’t complete this list without it.