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May 31, 2005
May 30, 2005
Nervously bored (job stuff)
by at 5:34 PM
So, I start work tomorrow. Neat, huh?
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May 27, 2005
May 23, 2005
T minus one week (job stuff)
by at 10:01 AM
Eep, I'm starting work in a week! The movers are coming in two days!
I am full of anxiety!
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May 20, 2005
Damnit lago (music)
by at 5:09 PM
The awesomest burrito ever (food)
by at 3:26 PM
I just had a burrito which was just so awesome I had to describe it.
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May 14, 2005
Voice-prompt menus fucking suck (customer experience, rant)
by at 1:14 PM
Back in the good old days of number-prompt menus, you could access most systems without talking and disturbing others (in an office or while on a cellphone), and any talking would be limited to actually speaking with a real person. With frequently-accessed systems, you could remember a quick series of keys to get to frequently-accessed menus, and also interrupt the speaker by simply making a selection when you know which one needs to be made. If you knew you just needed to speak with a live operator, you could just press 0 and immediately be put into the queue.
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Cold sores (job stuff)
by at 1:45 AM
I have always had oral herpes simplex B (known commonly as cold sores, and not to be confused with genital herpes), and as a result, when I'm under extreme duress I'd get these really painful open sores in my mouth.
I had a pretty good flareup on April 5 with a sore which seemed like it would be the kind which would get pretty big, run its whole course and last a whole month. Strangely, on April 7, it was entirely gone.
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May 13, 2005
Distracting (comic, travels)
by at 4:59 PM
May 12, 2005
Vietnamese-style beef soup (food)
by at 10:12 PM
This is sort of an alternate-universe take on my normal wasabi beef noodle soup. It's definitely not authentic by any stretch of the imagination, but it's still yummy.
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May 9, 2005
Move getting scheduled (job stuff)
by at 4:21 PM
May 6, 2005
This is why GET requests aren't supposed to have side-effects (linkage)
by at 11:54 AM
Google Web Accelerator preloads every link on a page, including logout/delete/etc. This actually isn't anything new in web-accelerator land, but apparently since Google is involved, people are suddenly treating the issue differently.
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May 3, 2005
T-Mobile sucks (customer experience, rant)
by at 12:34 PM
So, once upon a time, I had a 600 anytime/unlimited weekend minute plan on my phone. But I almost never ever used more than 100 minutes, so last August I changed my plan to 300 anytime. Which I forgot about doing.
In April I used 390 anytime minutes. So I got $40 of overage charges.
T-Mobile used to give me lots of "loyalty minutes" for not switching to another carrier (which I never used). Of course, when I actually need them, they're gone.
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