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Recent Transmissions
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et alia, What is it? When should you use it?
Rather it should be et aliæ , or et alii depending on whether the subjects are female or male respectively. Roughly means “the rest.” Apparently you can use et alli or the abbreviation: et al. for groups with both men and women making the whole gender issue a moot one. I’ve seen this used before,…
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What’s a euphemism?
A euphemism is a way of saying something with words that are nicer. It replaces a more coarse term or name, and it usually makes it sound good or not as bad as the original. Most politically correct terms are euphemisms. For example, instead of calling somebody fat, you’d call them big boned or curvy.…
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iPhone 3.0 is here, so is 3GS… still no single inbox view.
This is freaking ridiculous. Apple, why must you make us click out of our inbox just to go check another account? We have to click back a number of times just to go check another account? WTF is wrong with you guys. Blackberry has been doing this for years, every other smart phone out there…
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Subconjunctival hemorrhage aka Zombie Eyes
Today is day #11 after my eyes suffered what is technically known as Subconjunctival hemorrhage. In layman’s terms, the tiny blood vessels in my eyes burst, creating a pretty freaky zombie type of effect. On Saturday morning, eleven days ago I had really violent vomiting, and after 3 or four times of painful dry heaving,…
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Jira installation notes
These are my notes to get Jira installed and working with a Crowd backend for authentication and single sign on. I’ve already shown you the notes to get Crowd and Confluence installed. Check out the previous articles in the series. As always, these are notes for reference and they may not work perfectly for you,…