Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Section U Error (n.)
A computer network error with an unstated cause that shows a peculiar consistency to its occurrence, thereby arousing suspicions in the user community that the error is part of a deliberate design. As an example, to bring the traffic across over-worked and under-capitalized resources in line with a lower demand that can be more effectively serviced, by systematically denying requests at some point closer to the user.
Of course, an error that occurs all the time is most convincingly diagnosed as something out of commission, so the best pattern to indicate a Section U Error would be a generic problem that happens half the time. Once the user is acclimated to attempting a certain request twice, having settled on the expectation that the first attempt will fail and the second one will succeed, this would be strong evidence of a Section U Error.
Now, proving such a thing is going to be nearly impossible. Nevertheless, explaining some network behavior by other means, remains highly difficult…so much so that eventually, Occam’s Razor nods toward Section U.
Named after the fictitious corporate memorandum in John Grisham’s novel The Rainmaker, directing that medical claims submitted to the Great Benefit insurance company be initially denied as a matter of ritual, regardless of validity.
Inspired because the error message from Hotmail that is captured in the graphic…which, I swear, I didn’t see after nearly a decade of using Hotmail before Sunday night or Monday morning, is popping up with a regularity I find…well…let’s just say I’m not believing everything I read.
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