Hershey's chocolate is not fit for human consumption, the same is true for most British chocolate by te way.
Things messing with my groove are bad internet, appearantly my provider in turkey utterly messed up DNS this weekend. Even repeated switching doesn't bring a lasting solution.
Finally, the father of the boyfriend of a friend in Amsterdam has died at the age of 46, that is younger than I am.
Congratulations America
Why don't you use GoogleDNS or OpenDNS then?Originally Posted by Hazir
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
I thought about switching to googleDNS (8.8.8.4/8.8.4.4.) and that seemed to work, untill it quit working. And like I said, this started 2 days ago all of a sudden, not affecting VOIP which is on a decicated DNS server anyw.ay.
Congratulations America
I need more time to do the things I want to do. I don't have it because of the things I need to do. A quandary!
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Hershey's is American, not British.
I seem to remember reading that by the classical definition of chocolate, British chocolate could not be called chocolate because of its ratio of milk to cocoa solids or something. Chocolate companies in the UK and Europe had to come to some kind of compromise on what could could be referred to as 'chocolate' and what couldn't. I'd look it up but I can't be arsed.
I prefer European dark chocolate and truffles, but much prefer British milk chocolate. P'ticularly Cadbury's.
G'damned hot flashes! Tonight they have caused me to not be able to sleep, when I damned well know I have to get up in the morning! As I type this, I am just pouring sweat!All I am doing is sitting here, in front of an open window with a cool breeze coming in! I guess I'll try sleep again, but dunno if it will work!
I don't have a problem with authority....I just don't like being told what to do!Remember, the toes you step on today may be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!RIP Fluffy! 01-07-09 I'm so sorry Fluffster! People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life! My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely!The nice part about living in a small town: When you don't know what you're doing, someone else always does!
Atari bullshit refugee!!
If a DNS other than your provider's does not work, then they're either filtering or having some kind of problem with their connection.
You could always set up your own DNS
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
fucking lameDear Valued Best Buy Customer,
On March 31, we were informed by Epsilon, a company we use to send emails to our customers, that files containing the email addresses of some Best Buy customers were accessed without authorization.
We have been assured by Epsilon that the only information that may have been obtained was your email address and that the accessed files did not include any other information. A rigorous assessment by Epsilon determined that no other information is at risk. We are actively investigating to confirm this.
For your security, however, we wanted to call this matter to your attention. We ask that you remain alert to any unusual or suspicious emails. As our experts at Geek Squad would tell you, be very cautious when opening links or attachments from unknown senders.
In keeping with best industry security practices, Best Buy will never ask you to provide or confirm any information, including credit card numbers, unless you are on our secure e-commerce site, www.bestbuy.com. If you receive an email asking for personal information, delete it. It did not come from Best Buy.
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"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
I got the roughly same e-mail from Tivo, except they didn't name who their e-mail provider was. I'm guessing that it's also Epsilon.
I'm thinking about finding another job and leaving where i'm at.
- I can pretty much look after 3/4 of a job in it's entirety, from cost estimating, production control, capacity planning on MIS software and purchasing. It's now come to a point where I'm certainly over trained and very much under paid.
- I've asked for countless meetings with my manager as I'm certainly not happy being where I am.
- I've also asked for more work several times as my brain is no longer functioning with the silly tasks I'm given. Never ever asked for a pay rise - firm believer that hard work provides great rewards so I'd rather work my ass off and be rewarded with more pay. However those morals are being tested to the max! There is a fine line of taking advantage ..... i believe they are starting to cross it.
- The manager has said to colleagues that he needs to talk with me about my position within the group but needless to say I'm having to write this so he's yet to see me.
I know I should be lucky to have a job, I know many people are unemployed. I'm not totally ungrateful but just feel i'm under valued and have every right to be pissed off. Many people in the office have the years of experience in the trade, but they certainly don't get involved as much as me! I've traveled around for this place, correcting things or getting things because of peoples mistakes. Never say no to helping out, I've even spent some weeks in production as they were short of people and even had my own job to sort in the process - never asked but offered!
It never hurts to look and see what's out there Lor-you may find something else where you will be valued and have more challenges (in a good way). I don't know if that is something you can use as leverage in your current job or if they'll just tell you to hit the road, but having a look wouldn't be a bad thing.
Target, too.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Ya, I just saw that Target sent me one.
They might tell me to hit the road, might not, I couldn't tell you to be honest but I could use it as leverage if push came to shove.
I found out yesterday that they created 2 extra jobs from no where, to add to the further 4 they made - all manufacturing based. People thought I was going for one of the 4 initial jobs that came up but it would be a massive step back which I'm not prepared to take.
I'm going to wait till I'm in my house before I start looking (don't want the stress of both). They've got until July/August to address this entire situation, if they don't, then I am going.
[possible rant]
Major changes have been happening in my workplace lately, we are going through a period of uncertainty and our staff numbers have been reduced as a result - which is stressful and that stress can be hard to leave at the door when you head home at night. I know from past experience that going home with a head full of worry can make life difficult for your family - so I'm trying very hard to NOT do this.
Our company is a small to medium size manufacturer, importer and distributor that has been around since before WW2. We have a strong product base with a good history and we have always taken good care of our workers while still remaining profitable through all sorts of economic crises in the past.
We have however, lost 40% of our production workers* (including a couple of very good leaders), 1 mid level manager and a couple of sales staff in the past 12 months largely due to economic forces beyond our control (There is a mining boom here that is seeing unskilled workers earning $100k PA which is on a par with most Managers and Professionals in the city) and weather conditions in our country also have a direct effect on our sales and therefore our production. (we have endured an extended period of drought for the last 3 years and if we don't see "normal" winter rains this year it will be even more difficult next summer).
Most of these staff losses have actually been a kind of "natural attrition" where people have moved on (chasing their dream$) and we have made a decision to promote staff from within rather than replace the outgoing staff from elsewhere (they are hard to find and overpriced). Overall this policy has actually worked really well up to a point - the point being that we are all now doing a little (lot) more than we used to and this is naturally draining.
The upside of this extra workload is that we are all much better at doing our jobs and we all now know how to do several other roles within the company (because we used to do it and/or we still assist when needed) and we are all closer to each other because we are a smaller tighter group and we know that nobody is getting an easy ride.
Just so all this makes some sense, about 50% of our business turnover relies on "normal" seasonal conditions throughout Australia - In case you didn't know, most of the East coast of Australia has endured a summer of heavy rains, floods and cyclones while here on the West coast we are about to enter winter having not had "normal" winter rain for 3 years. All forecasts indicate this coming season will be our 4th winter of below average rain in succession and the 8th out of the last 10 below average. (Winter months are officially June, July, August but up until a decade ago rains "always" arrived around Easter and were reliable up until October).
So due to these factors and several other factors we are doing it tough but we also know there are others doing it even tougher (of course many of them are our customers) and we are confident we will come through this difficult period in good shape.
Like all difficult times in life, just "knowing" you will be ok in the end doesn't always make you feel better.
Of course I could take the easy way out and go chasing rainbow$ like so many others are doing but for a bunch of reasons I want to see this through and be around to reap the rewards. Besides, I know what the pitfalls are in the mining industry and know very well it is not where I want to be or what I want to do.
*We have outsourced some production so this figure is not necessarily as severe as it seems but it is significant none the less.
Such is Life...
Screw you, and do what I tell you??? Error using ==> image
Error using ==> image
TrueColor CData contains element out of range 0.0 <= value <= 1.0
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
Where is Nessus?
Can anyone else share their experience with that Crash sound during sleep? There's a name for it, but I can't remember what it is. I just know it's been happening to me off and on for the last month or so, and it's really really irritating. (You hear this super loud crash sound in your head, it seems real but it's imaginary. Waking up, however, is very real, disorienting and disconcerting. That's when you know it wasn't an external sound, but something "heard" in your head.)
Coupled with this damn restless leg syndrome, and biting my tongue because my jaw clamps down as my arms and legs contract......
something is very wrong here. I've also been "hearing" a crunchy tinkling "sound" at the base of my neck, but only while laying very still, right before I fall asleep. No sensation at all, just a "sound". Like a spent incandescent lightbulb when it's shaken. Maybe it's my meds and it's hallucinations, or strange seizures?
Dammit, I really don't wanna have to do the doctor/Rx/doctor/Rx thing again. Even the symptoms sound crazy. Hoping someone here knows what I mean and I won't feel like a total loon.
I know I suddenly jerk awake, frantically looking around for what's wrong, then coming to the realization that nothing is wrong, I was just hearing things/dreaming weird noises/whatthehellever! You are not alone. GGT! Like I said, not sure if I hear a crash or just something little that wakes me up. Of course, going back to sleep is totally out of the question!
The good news is: I actually got a decent night's sleep last night!
The bad news is: I slept in one spot, without moving, for about 6 hours. I am now so stiff and sore I can't hardly move!
I don't have a problem with authority....I just don't like being told what to do!Remember, the toes you step on today may be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!RIP Fluffy! 01-07-09 I'm so sorry Fluffster! People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life! My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely!The nice part about living in a small town: When you don't know what you're doing, someone else always does!
Atari bullshit refugee!!
Thanks munch, but I don't mean just dreaming or hearing random sounds or noises that wake me up. This is a super loud sound that comes from inside the head. A crash, boom, lightning kind of sound. I immediately know I didn't hear it with my ears, and it's not part of a dream......
Yay, I found it! It's called Exploding Head Syndrome.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome
Clicking on the Tinnitus link reinforces that I need to see the doctor to rule out ototoxicity from my meds or age related hearing loss, and get a hearing test. My sisters suggested that at Thanksgiving, but I blew them off. My kids have complained that I don't tolerate loud noises (their music) and every night I wake up scratching an inner ear "itch" and feeling fluid. With any luck, this is simply early allergies kicking in. I'd really hate to slowly go deaf.....
It's the sixth of april and I am in Istanbul, with the heat on
It's bloody cold outside, and all the time I am getting reports about how warm and sunny Amsterdam is at the same moment.
Congratulations America
I have on and off exploding head syndrome; it was scary the first time, but you get used to it. It's no more irritating than the "falling sensation whoomp!"-thing as you're falling asleep and all your muscles relax, you return to a more awake state either way.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Yes, the weather was awesome todayIt's the sixth of april and I am in Istanbul, with the heat on
It's bloody cold outside, and all the time I am getting reports about how warm and sunny Amsterdam is at the same moment.
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
I have the horrible feeling I just saw a very dear friend for the last time!
I don't have a problem with authority....I just don't like being told what to do!Remember, the toes you step on today may be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!RIP Fluffy! 01-07-09 I'm so sorry Fluffster! People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life! My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely!The nice part about living in a small town: When you don't know what you're doing, someone else always does!
Atari bullshit refugee!!
More fun with Citibank student loans. They've changed how you pay via their website. Before if you decided to pay more, it was all lumped together under one payment, and Citibank worked their magic as to how the extra would be distributed to the loans you were paying off. For instance, if you had Loan #100 which was made up of Loans #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5, and instead of paying the minimum of $100 towards Loan #100, you paid $150, Citibank would work out how the extra $50 was split up amongst the 5 loans based on things like percent interest and how much you owed on the individual loans. Now you have to figure it out yourself, the extra payments are listed separately in your payment history, instead of together as they were before, and since they are separate there, I am now waiting to see if they are submitted as separate payments to my bank. This seems more set up to deter me from paying extra, and thus paying down my principal balance on the loans, via making it inconvenient and convoluted to do so. I have one payment that has 8 loans attached to it. I am not looking forward to that one. The one I just sent through today was a meager 2, so we'll see how my bank processes Citibank's payments.
I also now have to check with my bank to see how many e-checks they allow in a month/year. As before it was one per loan payment, now...potentially much more. We shall see.
Douches. I wonder how fast they'd sue me if I reverse engineered their old payment distribution algorithm and posted it as a tool people could use online (so that it would calculate how much they used to pay before the new system). Going to figure it out for myself at least...
fight the power!
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I don't have a problem with authority....I just don't like being told what to do!Remember, the toes you step on today may be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!RIP Fluffy! 01-07-09 I'm so sorry Fluffster! People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life! My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely!The nice part about living in a small town: When you don't know what you're doing, someone else always does!
Atari bullshit refugee!!
Illusions, that's fucked up. Why can't they consolidate all the loans into one payment? Is Citi charging you transaction fees, too?
Sorry about your friend, munch. At least he didn't linger or suffer on a ventilator....
If you mean the usual student loan consolidation I'm not sure if they're doing it, and I'm fairly certain that if they did all of them, I'd be screwed as the interest rate for four of them is 2.47%, I don't really think I could get it lower for those. What I was saying though is that any extra payment towards principal they used to process as one payment, then figure out distribution themselves. Now I have to do that part.
I don't bank with Citi. My bank is a different bank, hence why I have to ask about monthly/yearly e-check limits, as I don't want to get hit with transaction fees if the number of e-checks I'm using ends up increasing by a multiple of ten.Is Citi charging you transaction fees, too?
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I'd check the federal consolidation loan website, illusions. I'm pretty sure you can see what your rate would be before you actually commit.
The county is going to be closing our Science Library @ MOSI
A few cool things did come out of the decision however:
The "realia" collection is coming to me to use at JFG. I likely won't keep it since I'm not involved with children's programming as much, but its nice to know that someone realized it at least needed to begin its new journey with someone who knew their shit. The realia collection is a few hundred pieces of hands on material thats science related. I even asked you guys one year to help me pick out some stuff for the new order.
One of the listed reasons for it closing was a 25% drop in traffic after I was forced to move into the downtown library. I'm going to boost my own ego and claim that it was my programming that brought people into that branch
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
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