ich bin ein auslander

Or at least the most appropriate for me… thanks to Ross for the Disney haunted mansion wallpaper tile…

Now to find the music and speech snippets for system sounds… heh

Tired, tired, tired of my XP desktop. If anyone has good desktop schemes, backgrounds, whatever, share the love. I’ve been using a custom blue-ish tinged thing for over a year now, and am sick to death of it, the font, the whole shebang. Currently using one of those spoof Mac ads with Dr Evil but it doesn’t seem appropriate running on the PC.

By the way, why the hell can’t Wind0ze sort out multiple monitors / different backgrounds? Should this be some damn difficult?

Finally, apparently it’s Dave’s birthday. Boo to him for not informing us ahead of time.

function mylife() {
on (Blog.Entry) {
_root.actionscript.monkey = “dead_tired”;
}
elsewhere
{
_root.pixel.monkey = “still_working”;
} so {
_root.actionscript.monkey = “blogging”;
}
}

At any rate - did I miss something? Why is the entire country panicking? Why are morons in some fuckhole east of Shitsville, Missouri saran wrapping the double-wides? What the fuck is going on with you idiots?

Yes, there might very well be a terror attack. No, it probably won’t be in Kansas. And no, duct tape ain’t going to do shit. So just keep on doing what you always do, calm the fuck down, and if it’s your turn to go, well, it’s your turn to go.

I mean, I’ve been reading the news daily, listening to NPR.. I’m pretty goddamn informed on everything that’s going on. There’s no reason to be in an uproar - at least, no more reason than a few days ago. Goddamn news sensationalists showing 2 year olds trying on gas masks. Bastards. And that was CNN! I can’t wait to see what our local news is doing.

Finally finished the MT nightmare, and have Wendy’s comment cookies working. Yippee. At any rate, much thanks to Jason for his help, including, but not limited to, “read the damn manual”. Never thought of that. Amazing how helpful those things can be…

At any rate, finished reading “Pigs at the Trough” by Ariana Huffington last night. Not exactly a page turner, but beyond highly recommended reading. A better overview, insight, and backroom glimpse as to what’s really going on in corporate america (ie, enron, worldcom, and the other 200 disasters waiting to happen) can’t be found.

Dogeared a few pages last night because I was too tired to jot bits down, so I’ll just spew them out here and next time I’m ready to pick up some stocks with my retirement account, I can just reference this.

First one just was a minor point about how much time/money we spend enforcing victimless crimes, ie the drug war, versus corporate crime… in 2000 alone, 646,042 people were arrested for possession of marijuana, and the DEA had a budget of 1.8 billion… the SEC (agency responsible for investigating corporate crimes) gets less than 1/3 of that, and Bush wants to lower that still further. However - corporate crimes are hardly victimless; tens of thousands of laid off workers, $630 billion lost from corporate pension plans, more than $9 trillion shareholder assets wiped out…

A role model for responsible corporate behavior - Bill Gross, founder and managing director of Pacific Investment Management Co (PIMCO)… manages over $250 billion in bond funds. He actually has taken out a bunch of bonds in companies that are doing “very bad things” and monitors the companies they invest in very closely. So check them out and put some money in there…

Another good guy, Ray Anderson, founder/chairman of Interface, Inc, the world’s largest carpet company. Not interesting, but apparently a very stand up guy with a great company that treats the financial bottom line, their workers and the environment on equal ground. Good shit, that. He’s attempting to “pioneer the company of the next industrial revolution.”

More later… fingers tired.

OK, I’ve upgraded to the new moveable type version and have transferred all database processes to mysql. Checking to make sure it worked, and then off to do the same for Wendy’s blog. When all of that’s done, I get to go back in, integrate new features and fix the original problems that prompted all of this anyway… fun fun fun!