On Life and Love

Whatever is making or breaking my day.

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    Midnight linkage

    Kaplan: Look out: I just may grow a ‘fro » "That any journalist feels free to insult a member of Congress with a blatantly racist and sexist slur on the public airwaves means that we’re all in big trouble." A review of Google calendar after an entire hour of using it :: tiffany b. brown // v 4.1 » I’m sticking with my Clie for now in terms of PIM–the web stuff is a little to flaky and not available enough, since I don’t always have my laptop on.

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    A day for pride

    Not only am I the editor-in-chief of an award-winning newspaper, but I now have the pride of bring the head of a newspaper that promotes enough controversy to have our office trashed/vandalized. This is one for the history books, folks.

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    Self-identity and identity blogging

    In the past couple of days, I’ve been asked what the deal is with all the porn/sex-related links here on this site. I find this a little silly, since the proportion isn’t much different than for technology, race, and news/political links I post, but I suppose sex is always an eye-grabber. But this brings up the general (and recently renewed) foci of this site. Along with the recent color and style change, there’s been a small change that may have been unnoticed by casual visitors and Bloglines users. This, formerly my little “about” blurb on the right: Lissa: Runner. Rose-Hulman junior. Weight-lifter. Music-lover. Computer scientist. Minor chemist. Avid reader. has…

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    Midnight linkage

    Apple: Windows on a Mac is here | CNET News.com » Oh, dear. This could be fun. BlackGayBlogger.com » But I’m Project Manager! » "It’s at this point, when he starts crying. Yes?crying. Now y’all know tears don’t do shit for me in the workplace. […]" E-books, has your time come? | CNET News.com » "’Books aren’t just words on a page. They are things you can trade, share and store for later.’" Usability in One Easy Step (First Draft) – Joel on Software » "Clunky? What?s he talking about? Everybody knows that the Macintosh has an elegant user interface, right? The very paradigm of ease-of-use?"