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Are (or Eire) you sure he's not here? 
 The first two Irish blogs I read both mention Dave.
 Speaking of which, how about a get-together here? Anybody up for that? (I am, like, not organized, as you can tell.)
 
KOAF! 
 Say happy birthday to Bilal Hasan Marti. And congrats to his Dad and mom.
 Bonus link: Don's combination case-for-FOAF and all-purpose reply to social network site invitations.
 
We can ass-check your facts, too 
 Mike Rodriguez takes issue with the choice of photos on the cover of the new U.S. News & World Report. In it a left-facing red-hued young John Kerry looks like Che Guevara in a tie (his hair is its own beret), while true-blue uniformed George W. Bush looks about as pre-presidential as can be. Sez Mike:
 Compare that to the photo of John Kerry, clad in a suit, on the left (oh! I just noticed that one!). I told myself that, yes, it's biased, but, and this is where I give them credit, it's true. In 1971, Kerry was already out of the service, and Bush was nominally serving his country.
 Here's the cover story that goes with the picture.
 
Black chopper notification 
 Sean Bonner: Feds reading blogs.
 
Worker be 
 Frank has an important question for all contributors to journals like IT Garage:
 Here's the challenge: what can I write about without giving away the store from my customers' points of view? I have two ideas..
 By the way, Frank is the first IT mechanic (trust me, I don't qualify... I just run the place), to start plying his craft at IT Garage.
 
Assisting an assassin 
 I have a friend whose mail always gets flagged as spam because... well, I'll let SpamAssassin tell you:
 This mail is probably spam....Content preview:

Content analysis details: (7.70 points, 5 required)
HTML_FONT_FACE_ODD (0.3 points) BODY: HTML font face is not a commonly used face
HTML_FONT_BIG_B (0.5 points) BODY: HTML has a big "font" and "B" tag combo
HTML_50_60 (0.5 points) BODY: Message is 50% to 60% HTML
HTML_MESSAGE (0.1 points) BODY: HTML included in message
HTML_FONT_BIG (0.3 points) BODY: FONT Size +2 and up or 3 and up
HTML_FONT_COLOR_BLUE (0.1 points) BODY: HTML font color is blue
HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_08 (0.7 points) BODY: HTML has images with 600-800 bytes of words
SUBJ_ALL_CAPS (1.1 points) Subject is all capitals
FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK (3.5 points) Forged mail pretending to be from MS Outlook
MISSING_OUTLOOK_NAME (0.6 points) Message looks like Outlook, but isn't

The original message did not contain plain text, and may be unsafe to open with some email clients; in particular, it may contain a virus, or confirm that your address can receive spam. If you wish to view it, it may be safer to save it to a file and open it with an editor.

 He's using generic Outlook on XP, he believes. What should I (or we) tell him to do? His business requires sticking with Windows and Outlook, so snarky entreaties to ditch either won't be useful.
 
NEAT stuff 
 We got up early for two reasons Monday morning: 1) so I could catch a bus to LAX to catch a plane I thought was at 10:55am but turned out to be at 5:50pm; and 2) to see Comet Bradfield. Conditions in the sky turned out to be just as hazy as those in my mind, so we were 0 for 2.
 Still, whether or not many of us catch Bradfield, there's still the prospect of NEAT C/2001 Q4, which is just one of several cometary discoveries produced by the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Program.
 Back when I was in Top 40 radio, there was still an art to "smacking a lyric" by talking over the instrumental intro to a song. I've just done that for the latest post by Michael Taht, who has much more to say about most of the above. Hit it, Mike.

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