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Diversity Just Shelley

Older, Taller, Richer, Wiser

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My divorce has been final for over a year, which means I feel that it’s now “safe” for me to consider dating again. And as much as I think my weblogging male friends are the most wonderful, sexiest, interesting people in the world, I don’t want to snuggle up to […]

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Just Shelley

I want my DSL!

(Begin of minutia minute) The fight continues to try and get my DSL connection to work. I’m impressed with the amount of time and effort that Earthlink is expending on the problem – I was in conversations for severalĀ hoursĀ on Wednesday with two technicians, as well as a detailed conversation with an advanced troubleshooting technician yesterday. […]

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Legal, Laws, and Regs

Pledge III

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Much discussion about the Pledge of Allegiance ruling. Many people believe the issue is much ado about nothing, while others are mildly or strongly supportive of the ruling. Of those who dislike the ruling, it seems that there is a strong belief that without religion, we will flounder about, without […]

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Weblogging

MT and Trackback

This is the first posting with Movable Type’s Trackback incorporated. Ah, I love the smell of new technology in the morning.

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Weblogging

The lost art of courtesy

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Along with our respect for freedom and our sense of humor and perspective, seems we’ve lost something else in this modern age of connectivity – our courtesy. And in its void, we’ve replaced it with various guises of non-courtesy masquerading as courtesy. For instance, there’s the lost courtesy of the […]