In which the Turkish Airlines desk tears up my boarding pass without anything like a real explanation and no one can tell me how to dial an international number. Now I know that everyone knows that when you write +3 42139 80972 you're meant to dial 00 in place of the +. I blame America for teaching me poorly. Add can't use phones to my list of imperial measurement woes.
I'm working on at least one project right now where some of my collaborators have asked for a secure wiki. A private one, where everyone has to use a password to access it. Secure, though, is not a word to be used lightly and so I am reminded of the importance of talking about security. If you think that some environment is private, but your buddy likes to use passwords like "password" then what you've really got is a curtain around the toilet. Which is a nice thing, don't get me wrong. There is a difference between a loo on a street corner and a loo on a street corner with a curtain around it. There is also a difference between a curtained loo and a vault. Not everything needs to be in a vault, but the difference matters. And so I give you an old LINC Tech Tip about passwords and password policies:
Dropping phones, that is. Six days into our Cingular family plan, Noah lost his phone on the way home from Brian Lehrer. It took a dive from his pocket and whoever found it hung up on him when he tried to negotiate getting it back. (Why? Why do people suck?) There is a long and circular story about why it is that I am looking for a new phone, not Noah, but I am looking for a new phone. A Cingular phone. Update: talk about lazy web! someone already responded to my CL wanted ad. Noah will pick the phone up on Monday. I don't want to count my chickens when I'm clearly sitting here with a bunch of eggs, but is it possible that people don't suck? Update: I am currently in possession of one LG phone that works just fine and came with the number to a pakistani restaurant in Queens. Yum.
I just did some Word Press fiddling for a friend's Chiropractic Practice, in Minnesota, and I am knee deep in trying to build a new and much, much better site for the Youth Bicycle Education Network (okay, okay, you can peek if you must. it isn't some kind of big secret), and I have learned a few things:
via Hubert; Harmony Farm (despite the cheesy name) is highly recommended: it's time for our third harvest festival up here at the farm. For those that weren't in attendance last year he's a quick run down: christian rock, faux amish singers, football, climbing trees, getting stuck in a trees, food, ...
I finally watched The Meatrix. It is pretty good, smart in that "sums it up" sort of way that is so hard to do. It being factory farming. The True Majority Oreo animation is another good one, this time about budget allocation. Phillip hipped me to ...
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