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MickC @ August 30, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Last night was the first PTO meeting of the new school year. Our Parent-Teacher Organization has been in disarray for a while. The best I can piece together, first the administration stopped being quite so supportive of the PTA so teachers and school administrators stopped coming to PTA meetings. For all intents [...]
MickC @ August 26, 2005 # No Comment Yet
The next exhibit in the “you can’t really hide on the Internet” hit parade happened on July 15, 2005, when Matt Bass, currently a student at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology was order by a judge not far from here to pay Baylor University $77,000. According to the The Emory Wheel’s headline, [...]
MickC @ August 25, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Recently I was reading several accounts of Dowdification. So, I figured I would try my hand at it. After all, if Maureen Dowd can change President Bush’s speeches so that the meaning holds little resemblence to what was actually said, why can’t I do it with Howard Dean’s speeches?
So, for our first trip [...]
MickC @ August 24, 2005 # No Comment Yet
According to the The Seattle Times, a Davenport, Iowa, man was arrested and charged with sending e-mails directing Internet users to a bogus Web address resembling a Microsoft site to obtain credit-card numbers and other personal information.
This is something termed “phishing” where someone tries to get you to turn over information that they can then [...]
MickC @ August 22, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Whizardries has just launched My Debt Reduction Plan. This site will hopefully serve as a free source for a lot of what people need to begin working down their debts.
Currently, the site features a debt reduction calculator which allows you to put in how much you can afford to pay, the length of time [...]
MickC @ August 21, 2005 # No Comment Yet
I’m helping out with the project to have bloggers sort through all of the documents recently dumped by the National Archives. The boxes have been compiled into .pdf files arranged by subject. So I hope you’ll excuse me while I don my pajamas.
My second “box” is Box 44 - Pro Bono and is [...]
MickC @ August 20, 2005 # No Comment Yet
I’m helping out with the project to have bloggers sort through all of the documents recently dumped by the National Archives. The boxes have been compiled into .pdf files arranged by subject. So I hope you’ll excuse me while I don my pajamas.
My first “box” is the 6th file of Box 30, covering [...]
MickC @ August 18, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Without a doubt, the biggest three stories in the United States tonight are (in no particular order):
The sentencing of Dennis Rader
The fight over the confirmation of John Roberts to the SCOTUS
Cindy Sheehan’s (now aborted involuntarily shortened) protest in Crawford, Texas
Of those three stories, the one with the biggest potential for historical impact is the Sheehan [...]
MickC @ August 18, 2005 # No Comment Yet
In 2003, an AOL employee named Jason Smathers used a co-worker’s access to steal all 29,000,000 screen names of AOL’s subscriber base. The reason? Mr. Smathers was offered $28,000 by a spammer looking to tout an offshore gambling site.
AOL fired Smathers. The United States Attorney’s office prosecuted.
Fast forward to December of last [...]
MickC @ August 17, 2005 # 2 Comments
While the website for Shifman Consulting is still up, it appears that Shifman Consulting, Inc. is dissolved.
According to the information provided by the Illinois Secretary of State’s office, Shifman Consulting, Inc., ceased to exist as of 1/3/05 when it was involuntarily dissolved. This usually means that corporate taxes weren’t paid.
In the grand scheme of [...]
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