a blab by idle

When I used to volunteer for the Naperville EMA, those of us who worked command would get a lesson in how to do all sorts of really important but vaguely scary things, one of which was sounding the sirens in event of a tornado. There's a second button, next to the "constant siren wail" button, that was just labeled "warble". I asked when, if ever, the warble tone was used. I was given a simple answer: "That's only used in event of an air strike. God help us all if we ever have to hit that button." Then he paused and added, "Try not to hit that one by mistake."

Looks like someone in Connecticut pushed the wrong button.

Thanks to yukino for that little gem.

Got a surprise at work today: a copy of iWork for my Mac! It looks gorgeous, though Pages feels a little… spartan? Perhaps I've just gotten used to the mass overage of Word.

Oddly enough, I almost wanted to stay and write doc late into the night ;)

The next treat? With some R&D money we've scraped together, my boss and I are each getting a Mac mini. The P.O. has in theory gone out, so now it's just a matter of getting in the queue of people wanting the little beaut.

I'm definitely trying out some Xgrid action with all the Macs I can sneak the client onto on devnet….

I was just going to try to go along, minding my own business, ignoring the Monday blip this year until quite unexpectedly, I received perhaps the most witty, charming valentine I've ever seen in my life.

Check out Aster's keen find of Anti-Valentines.

You know, I should start a bar graph on the sidebar tracking percentages of content from various sources. Of course, my fear is that the only two visible bars will be Aster and Yukino.