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Turtles do look a bit like igloos.



I think things will be financially back on track, finally. Quite a relief. Overextended myself a bit... fortunately, I have a little snap. I look forward to the removal of tension there.



"A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle."



Three great torrent sites to snag tv shows without registration

BTEfnet.com
TorrentSpy.com
TVTorrents.tv

Towerseek - beta torrent search

I can't seem to nail "Growing up Gotti", but all my other TV curiosities have been fed there.



Lately, I have the urge to play a stand up bass, and use the pointed tip to kill vampires that try and break up any jam session I might be playing in.



Best metasearch engine - www.info.com (searches Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, Altavista, Overture, Inktomi, LookSmart, Overture, Open Directory all at the same time.), although the name makes me think of old text adventures.



A load of people fired for blogging



1 year ago - drama flakes, bad taste, Dentsu, Tintin, Sandalwood and walkabout

2 years ago - LotR, Nipple scarves, vax-d, UBER-PEA!, Newt piccies,

3 years ago - Colostomy bag thief, D&D stats, monkey god baby

4 years ago - looking to the future, all the words

Date: 2005-01-11 01:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] rejectomorph
Well, if they call what they do blogging, maybe they deserve to be fired- for using a grotty neologism.

This is a better word.

I think it would be funny if we could get LJ added to the list of "blogophobic" companies, though.

Date: 2005-01-11 01:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
blague! what a wonderful little bit of vernacular!

Date: 2005-01-11 01:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eryx-uk.livejournal.com
I'm really quite shocked that any company could have a problem with a member of staff having a LJ or online diary of any sort.

As long as said employee is not giving away company secrets on there and they are not sitting at work writing it when they should be working, it has absolutely nothing to do with the employer what they do with it.

That has got me quite irritated.

Date: 2005-01-11 01:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
Some companies are needlessly hypersensitive when it comes to being connected to some employee activity.

I wonder how many blog-types have been fired for "I called in sick for work, when I was really just wanting to go to the zoo today" sort of thing?

Date: 2005-01-11 02:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eryx-uk.livejournal.com
If someone is daft enough to do that, they deserve to be caught out really.

Date: 2005-01-11 02:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
I agree.. I put my slacker-type messages in a filter, so only non-tattletales will see.

Date: 2005-01-11 02:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] juliabee.livejournal.com
"Lately, I have the urge to play a stand up bass, and use the pointed tip to kill vampires that try and break up any jam session I might be playing in."

:::snicker::: :0)

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If you start using the word "blog"..you are gonna make me cry. :D

I wonder if all of the people fired from those places mentioned actual company names in their journal before their complaints were found/read, or only mentioned the name after being fired...

I refrained from mentioning exactly what I did at my last job, because anyone with a Google clue could have then figured out the exact place I worked. Though, with even more clue...my daytime IP could have given someone the answer. You never know.

Date: 2005-01-11 02:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
Hee! You're welcome to play in the band.. we could use a cute drummer-girl! :)

Far be it for me to make you cry... I like the word journal or diary a lot more than blog, too.

That's true... IPs can be pretty telling, unless you bounce through a proxy in some way.

Good Morning!

Date: 2005-01-11 02:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] juliabee.livejournal.com
Morning!

If I could remember how to play my old violin, I would hand over my bow so that you could have more weapons. ;)

I recognized a manager at a cafe I frequented, as someone from LJ. Not on my list, but I recognized her from seeing her icon here (mere 2 x's...weird), and her first name. I would pop in at her journal after that, and at some point she mentioned the cafe name and complained a lot. No biggie to me..though it occurred to me that she should be careful.

Later mentioned they had standing orders to throw out unfinished wine bottles each night. She was mad at them, and reasoned that it should be okay to take one home since it would be trashed anyway. Remember her saying "I'm passive aggressive that way", which to me, meant she knew she shouldn't.

Checked in weeks later, & someone had contacted the cafe within 24 hours of the wine bottle thing, pointed out her LJ, and they fired her. She complained much after the firing, and they contacted her again and told her to knock it off. She did.

But..went into my fav mexican restaurant, and suddenly found her working there. I had to check the scoop in her journal, and saw that she had named them, and complained about them, too. She didn't learn much. :P

Date: 2005-01-11 04:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
oooh... I wish I had a local with a journal that I could sort of snoop like that... only vaguely naughty. :) Not very, because... well, it's posted to thw world and all!

I'm surprised the server-person complained again... I guess she figures the odds are slim that someone else will see it again. Me, I put my work grousing behind a friend's only filter, to minimize issues. :)

Violin! I don't think that I knew that about you, Ms. Multifaceted! All the better to stab vampires with!


Date: 2005-01-11 02:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i.livejournal.com
i'm trying the bittorrent thing again. it is v...e...r...y slow, so far.

Date: 2005-01-11 02:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
once you build up to about 20-30 seeders, it should speed up considerably.

I've found that a 43 minute HDTV show (about 300meg) will roll down the pipe in about 2-3 hours. I do most of my torrenting when I'm not at home or in front of the pc, and then do a little happy-dance when I next take a look.

Date: 2005-01-11 04:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i.livejournal.com
woohoo! it got a whole lot faster! thanks!

Date: 2005-01-11 04:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
great! it takes a bit to snowball, but it gets there! :D

Date: 2005-01-11 05:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i.livejournal.com
i may not have tv, but i'm going to watch battlestar galactica anyway. shhh!

Date: 2005-01-11 05:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
okie!!

Tell me if it's better than the pilot!

Date: 2005-01-11 06:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i.livejournal.com
i haven't seen that yet. i downloaded ep 11, and i'm working on ep 10 now.

Date: 2005-01-11 06:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
keen beans. Sexy Cylons, baby!

Date: 2005-01-11 08:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i.livejournal.com
tvtorrent is down. i did get two episodes, but i can't play them. codec problems. grrr. the other two sites won't let me connect to the trackers.

Date: 2005-01-11 08:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
hmm... did you see my updated link? I added a new tracker.

www.towerseek.org

Date: 2005-01-11 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i.livejournal.com
what's with the codec thing?

Date: 2005-01-11 09:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
codec is a type of media viewer.... some hdtv and other formats use a more recend type of "decoder"

media player classic should have all the needed codecs to view whatever you like -

download it here.. it's free, and contains no spyware.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=84358&release_id=227046

there are two versions, one for 98/ME
, and one for xp/2000

Date: 2005-01-11 09:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i.livejournal.com
thanks, i solved the problem after much panicing. i upgraded my windows player which did no good at all. it can't accept the codec for some reason, so i upgraded my divx player and voila!

Date: 2005-01-11 09:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scottobear.livejournal.com
presto!

I'm glad it works for you now!

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