23 Oct 2003, 18:34 p.m.

Two Stories of Customer Service

"Hi, this is Sumana with Salon Premium. What can I do for you?" I looked up his information. As I waited for it to appear, he asked, "Are you in India now?" I slowly replied …

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23 Oct 2003, 12:53 p.m.

Still Not Defecting From Wednesday Night

Enterprise was a rerun last night, and I yelled at the screen for most of West Wing. I feel like John Wells is a new stepparent. "Aaron Sorkin never did it like that. Sorkin had …

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23 Oct 2003, 11:52 a.m.

I watched someone notarize a document today. I wish…

I watched someone notarize a document today. I wish notarization involved robes or chanting.

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21 Oct 2003, 20:30 p.m.

And the Portions Are So Small

Aiee! I found, via my referrer logs, that I have a LiveJournal. Who did this?! Cyrus, are you using LiveJournal as your RSS aggregator? I don't know what to bemoan louder, that I now have …

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21 Oct 2003, 18:37 p.m.

Interview with Penn Jillette. 10 Questions with Penn Jillette.…

Interview with Penn Jillette. 10 Questions with Penn Jillette. Interview with Stephen Colbert -- this one's for you, Zed, what with the improv and whatnot.

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21 Oct 2003, 15:32 p.m.

Cred

Andrew Leonard saw me reading Beyond Fear while eating lunch and proclaimed that I am such a geek.

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21 Oct 2003, 15:27 p.m.

Corporations that put up faceless weblogs are on the cargo…

Corporations that put up faceless weblogs are on the cargo cult cluetrain.

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21 Oct 2003, 14:28 p.m.

"Why do they loan to punks?"

Tales From the Code enjoyably jaunts through commercial finance law. Unfinished.

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21 Oct 2003, 11:22 a.m.

Down the Analog Hole

I was trying to remember the name of Cruelty to Analog and fumbled around with "Down the Analog Hole" and "Revert to Analog," both of which are cute.

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21 Oct 2003, 9:37 a.m.

J. Bradford DeLong's "Semi-Daily Journal" runs on a brittle installation…

J. Bradford DeLong's "Semi-Daily Journal" runs on a brittle installation of Movable Type on a slow server in the economics department at UC Berkeley. I generally start loading up the page and then go make …

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