Phasor Burn

… I’m sorely tempted to use pic next time I need to generate a diagram.

If only I had enough spare time to get proficient with it. Oh well. One day.

Actually, I prefer to use OpenOffice. It works better for me than StarOffice

— A Sun Employee I talked to today.

I’ve been a customer of Alberta Blue Cross for about 7 years now, originally to gain coverage as a self employed person whilst doing consulting full time. I’ve kept the coverage even though I’ve been an employee off and on since then. The first place I was an employee at didn’t have medical coverage available at all and the next one has ok but not great coverage.

I’ve used Alberta Blue Cross for travel medical insurance when I’ve gone on holidays or business trips out of province before. This time I left it a little too late (I leave this afternoon) and found out that I could not apply via telephone on the weekends nor do they have an online option.

A couple of minutes on google and I found coverme.com which let me sign up, pay, and get covered just like that. I see now also that it would have been possible to do the same thru my online banking site. That’s the way it should be, if you want to do business in the 21st century.

Alberta Blue Cross, you are knuckle dragging troglodytes in comparison. Get with the program.

… but try getting a grant from DARPA for it….

Time travel is easy.
By Paul F
Posted Thursday 14th June 2007 18:17 GMT

I once discovered a device that allowed me to travel through space and time outside my house. Then someone told me it was a car.

Seriously, though. It would seem that the simplest way to get a time machine would be to bury a message in a mason jar or somesuch near a place of future archeological interest. The message should read “To whoever gets this jar, please send a time machine to [insert time / position here].” and then just stand around with the shovel at the ready. If you were successful, you should know within seconds, can dispatch the traveler BoFH style, and scamper off with your young female companion who will ask “But Doctor, where are we going now?”
Any time-machine that doesn’t involve a paradox in its construction or acquisition is just a clock.

Snort!

Even Novell can’t keep their crap running. Their download web site is fubar at the moment, throwing a lovely “All LDAP servers are down.” error.