The Daily Thing

Hey! The local newspaper is seeking a features writer.

Poewar.com: “Are you a fun-loving features writer with an adventurous streak? Willing to take risks and do offbeat stories? The Modesto Bee, a McClatchy newspaper, is seeking a writer to produce local features copy as assigned. The primary areas of coverage will be active lifestyles, popular culture and family issues. Reporter will also handle, as assigned, the routine chores of the department including standing features. Responsibilities include reporting and writing local stories, coming up with ideas, making photo/art assignments and following through, dealing with callers and walk-in-traffic.”

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Times Online: “Apple, the computer company, has toppled Google, the search engine, to be voted “the brand with the most global impact” in a poll run by Interbrand, the branding consultancy giant.

Apple aficionados are likely to regard the verdict, reached by readers of Interbrand’s brandchannel.com website, as overdue. The company, recently described by one fan as having the “attitude of an artist and the eye of an anthropologist”, has consistently won plaudits for its sleek, lovingly engineered products and now enjoys commercial success.”

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TechSpot.com: “19-year-old Minnesota teen Jeffrey Lee Parson has been convicted of distributing the blaster worm, and has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. His time will be served in a minimum security prison, and he will have to participate in 10 months of community service, pay restitution and be placed under supervision for three years following the sentence.

The variant of the worm infected approximately 48,000 computers that had not use a security patch. The author of the original version of the MSBlast worm has yet to be caught.”

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MSNBC: “Johnny Carson, the ‘Tonight Show’ TV host who served America a smooth nightcap of celebrity banter, droll comedy and heartland charm for 30 years, has died. He was 79.”

It’s a sad day in America. One of the worlds funniest people has left us. I don’t think I’ll ever forget watching Floyd. R. Turbo talking about “those Irish coming over here and taking showers in our waterfalls”. Goodbye to a great man. Goodnight Johnny.

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“OMG! They’ve found a meteorite made of iron on Mars!”

Like…duh! We kinda expected to. Why? Because we find iron meteorites here.

That’s right, we’ve known for years there’s iron meteorites. Didn’t you guys watch Armageaddon?

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Can I ask a question?

Think about all the companies you deal with on a daily basis. Then answer these 3 questions:

1. How many of those employ bloggers?
2. How many of those bloggers are paid by the company to blog?
3. Are you more likely to do business with a company with bloggers on staff?

I’m interested in your answers so if you wanna put them in the comments, trackback this entry, or even send me an email it would be appreciated. Thanks!

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This is way too funny to keep to myself. For the non-geeky readers of my blog (you know who you are), that’s Bill Gates.

Nice stuff, Joey.

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Jeremy Zawodny appears to be screwed.

Jeremy Zawodny: “What a fun day this has been.

We went to find the water meter while he made a phone call or two. It turns out that his guy was available later today but FAHBP wanted to get a second opinion.

Grr.

Meanwhile, we found the water meter (buried out behind the garage in a little box) and confirmed that it ran like mad when I re-enabled the hot water. But more interestingly, it also ran (more slowly, of course) when the hot water was off. That means there’s a cold water leak somewhere as well.

‘Fantastic,’ I thought in a sarcastic tone. Two leaks.

Anyway, he left and I called FAHBP to find out who would be giving me my second opinion. I spoke with Joanna (sp?) who had some wrong information. (Uh oh. That’s never a good sign.) She thought that two companies had already seen the problem and that it had been referred to a third (Sub-Dynamic something or other) to come out and find the leak.”

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This is great stuff from the flickr blog.

Flickr will be down for a (few) moment(s)

We’re doing some database maintenance. It will be back online within 30 minutes.

Unless it takes longer, in which case it won’t be back online within 30 minutes, but rather will be back online after a longer period of time (greater number of minutes).

Excuse us.

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Scoble:

“I love all the folks who feel they are entitled to Google PageRank. Really? When did that become an entitlement?”

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