Album of the day is Abductions & Reconstructions, by the Thievery Corporation.

I’m reading about WorldCom and wondering what all that means- more book-cooking and backdoor deals with a huge company. I sure hope the SEC is granted some kind of power so they can create and finally enforce some strong bookkeeping laws to put an end to this kind of stuff. NPR did a great piece a few weeks back on the Enron mess and how they were able to get away with a lot of what they did.

On other telecom fronts, apparently Cingular is buying ATT Wireless, my cell carrier, so I don’t know what kind of disruption in service I’m going to suffer through here, but it should make life interesting.

By the way, you know you’re getting older when your car radio is permanently tuned to the local NPR affiliate. I haven’t listened to song-oriented radio in months. But at least I don’t have to sit through the country’s worst local news telecasts for the information of the day.

One of the programmers here wrote an email to the staff:

Exception 14

… buffer overrun error occurred when attempting to
… write soda to device fridge:
… your soda may be warm.

I need to keep an eye on this series of articles on O’Reillynet about Mac OSX and ColdFusion MX.