"Oh Ha, Ha, Real Funny, Guys"

So someone at CraigsList is a comedian. Is that not the longest verification word EVER?

Paris Hilton Has Been Busy

Apparently. The nice people who email me three or four times a day keep me updated. According to them:

Paris Hilton returned by Aliens
Paris Hilton becomes Nun
Stephen Hawking defends Paris Hilton sex allegations
Paris Hilton sold her soul to the devil, admits it on Larry King

and my favorite

Paris Hilton tosses dwarf on the street.

She tosses a dwarf on a street? Maybe these emails are fabricated.

ADDED:

Paris Hilton endorses Ron Paul

Paris Hilton leaves jail, vows to return

Big Day at the girlfriday Household

My husband is switching phone carriers and we are upgrading our phones.

Does anyone have Verizon?

If so, do you have any feedback on your LG phone? We are looking at a couple of models. Any feedback would be helpful!

ADDED: Proud new owner

Remember When Liberals Were the Tolerant Ones?

I have been laughing out loud and I'm going to keep laughing every time I recall the stupidity of what I'm about to relate.

I'm becoming a liberal.

But that's not what's funny.

New theory. The ratio of flaming left-wingers to conservatives on social networking sites is 10:1. I'm not saying right-wingers aren't on the Internet; I'm saying they don't spend (read: waste) as much of their time on like Digg.*

But I've been going there mostly just to Digg articles, but once or twice I've commented on another post. (I can feel my heart starting to bleed.)

That was the case when I saw someone's Digg for Jon Stewart’s Farewell to Mitt Romney: “F*c# Y%u. Watch it if you want to see what Jon Stewart really thinks. Oh, you already knew? Hmmm, he usually sticks to humor and avoids partisanship. How odd.

I think I pretty much summed it up when I commented, "Remember when Jon Stewart was funny? Now he's just a hack."

I SO offended 47 people who dugg this article, I got -47 diggs for my comment.

One of them, nogChoco, even went so far as to say, "Remember when your comment was still on +1 ?" And THAT was so well-received by readers that 16 people dugg HIS comment (to my comment, which was a comment).

As the kids say, ROFL.

PS: Digg this post.

*Note to the old fogies: If you don't know what Digg is or don't care, you may not understand this post. I'll call you on your green rotary phone later and explain.

"Why Don't You Upgrade from the Blogger Template?"

One of my friends asked me this last night on the phone.

Sitting in front of my computer I had called her on a whim, just to talk. Which I don't do much. But she's been helping me with some tricky HTML (wondering about that rotating slideshow on the right?) and it was on my mind.

Not many readers, I said. I'd like to get readership up.

That's when she asked me the question in question.

The short answer is, I don't want to. I liked this template the first time I saw it: Clean lines, clever color combinations, simple, attractive and retro. There are limits to what can be done with this template without making it look ridiculous and these limitations intrigue me.

My work life is about making everybody else's stuff look better. It is about defying limitations, breaking outside the box, thinking two steps ahead of the competition, selling.

I am tired. My eyes are sore. If my brain could wince, it would.

Let everyone else update, revamp, improve, evolve. It's fun to watch. But I do enough of that professionally. I'll stick with my blogger blog, which not many read.

Of course, when I get that sidebar looking the way I want, look out.

girlfriday: it turns out both ends of the lollipop are fuzzy*

Ms. Lane has a heartbreaking post about the death of her Inbox. An Inbox that didn't die alone but took the Sent Folder with it. The. Sent. Folder. I'm developing hives.

But don't try cheering up your bosses with, "Hey, it could be worse. You coulda lost all your email" when it's you who is hanging out to dry.

Among the many thankless duties I perform as an assistant, IT manager is one of them. It just worked out that way. I know more than everyone else so I am in charge of IT. That was fine with me, and I grew with the job.

I can't say it was a mistake, but I should have known that when things went sideways, I'd be the scapegoat.

The story: There is a lot of spam. You might have noticed. I heard about the volume of spam from one of my bosses. A lot. After some consulting with the web administer at the company hosting our email, I decided to make the switch to Google.

Google Apps. It's a beautiful thing.

But it's not perfect. And neither am I. We own a dozens of domain names and a number of them are aliases for our primary domain (lost you?). I mistakenly transferred the primary domain first rather than the alias which we use for ALL of our email.

Bottom line: For 24 hours, clients got reject notices whenever they tried to email us.

That was the bad news. The good news was no more spam. None. Those blasted spammers were foiled by the powerful filters the geniuses at Google designed.

It's been a dark few days as I've tried to troubleshoot these and other issues. I can't count the number of thank-yous I've gotten for trying to solve the spam problem, or trying to find an innovative solution to email hosting. That's because I didn't get any.

It's bleak here in IT admin land.

But Lois knows that it's not always better on the other side.

*Remember when Sugar says she's always getting the "fuzzy end of the lollipop" in Some Like it Hot?

A thousand apologies to the poor soul who used google blog search to find "place of jokes, fun" and ended up here.

girlfriday: my job may be humble, but

This poor soul was fired from her job at Blue Banana in Wales. Fired via text message.

This is progress? This is keeping in step with youth culture? By acquiescing to the demands of the smallest, crudest tendencies of some?

You don't respect me when you assume I am trite.