Test Mac Journal

Posted on April 28, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized

Well, here’s an attempt to use Mac Journal connected to Word Press. Let’s see if it really works.

Woohoo, it does. That’s pretty cool–maybe even worth the $35 it costs.

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Daylight “Savings” Time

Posted on March 12, 2007 | Filed Under Uncategorized

Given all the recent hubbub surrounding the modification of DST lately I became curious about the origins and the driving reason why it was lengthened. Well, it turns out farming has little, if anything, to do with it. See Wikipedia.

I find this snippet here rather ironic (not the Alanis Morissette variety):

Golf courses, convenience stores, and other businesses benefit from extra afternoon sunlight. In the mid-1980s Clorox (parent of Kingsford Charcoal) and 7-Eleven, which both benefit from DST, provided the primary funding for the Daylight Saving Time Coalition that successfully lobbied to extend U.S. DST, and both Idaho senators voted to extend DST on the basis of fast-food restaurants selling more French fries made from Idaho potatoes.

DST can adversely affect farmers and others whose hours are set by the sun. For example, grain harvesting is best done after dew evaporates, so when field hands arrive and leave earlier in summer their labor is less valuable.

So the common excuse of we’re doing this for the farmers is complete bull feces. It’s all about capitalism. Shocker!! What I wonder is if these various companies considered the amount of time and money IT staffs had to go through this year to make the change. I have a co-worker who’s spent nearly the entire last month working on installing software patches just for the lengthened DST.

Personally I think we should just shift the hours permanently and save all that daylight year round. Just think, if we’re saving daylight in the summer why shouldn’t we save it during the winter when it’s in lower quantities/higher demand!!

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Hello, Internets

Posted on March 11, 2007 | Filed Under Uncategorized

Well, I’ve finally updated my website for the first time in a looong while. This is the first time it’s actually looked presentable since I’ve had it, and maybe that’s because I decided to use software that someone else created.  It finally came to that since friends keep migrating to MySpace (ugh), and I have to “keep up with the Joneses”.

BTW, who are the Joneses? And why do we all have to keep up with them? They must be really smart. Or really fast since we can’t seem to catch them.

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