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Just Shelley

Automatic Enrollment

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In order to work on the contract for a large company earlier this year, I had to take employment with another company. This isn’t that unusual, though I typically won’t accept such conditions–I am an independent, and if there’s concern about taxes being paid, a simple filing of a 1099 […]

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Weather

Best laid plans

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Best laid plans and all that… I canceled the New Orleans trip, at least for now. I’ve been watching the weather and when the forecasts all called for temperatures with heat indexes over 100 that was it for me. It’s actually going to be cooler in St. Louis, at least […]

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People

Einstein is human

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Thanks to 3 Quarks Daily (again), a pointer to a story covering the press reaction to the release of thousands of pages of Einstein’s personal correspondence. Tongue in cheek, the article is titled, Einstein in Lust. In it the author, Joshua Roebke, writes: “Phys-sex Genius” wrote the headline wizards at the New York […]

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Technology Web

Semantic CSS

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. WordPress.com has released a new paid upgrade: custom CSS. Now those who host their weblogs with the service can pay for an upgrade and customize their weblogs. To start, the company provided a Sandbox theme layout that can be altered through the custom stylesheet. It’s interesting to read about this […]

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Just Shelley

Minnesota’s Fringe Festival

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Birdchick writes on her husband’s participation in this year’s Fringe Festival in Minnesota. The concept of the Fringe Festival is fascinating, and I wish we had something similar here in St. Louis. I gather that every year, people submit ideas, and a lottery determines which are included in the Festival. That’s it: no juries […]