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Today, in light of what’s happened in New Orleans, the powers that be in Huntington Beach left an envelope at my doorstep—at everyone’s doorstep—with the words “Official EMERGENCY information from the City of Huntington Beach” written on it. In the envelope is a letter outlining what we all can do to be prepared in the event of any disaster—the highest risk being earthquake, then flood or storm, fire or explosion, chemical spill, violence, and what have you. There is also…

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Did I mention that H.E. bought me a keyboard? After ten years of me missing my piano, he got me a Yamaha DGX-505. No occasion. We’d just been wandering around Fry’s Electronics Friday, looking for something else, when we sort of stumbled on it. It had the requisite 88 keys and a bunch of other things, so I noted the model number and he looked it up at home. The next day, he bought it and helped me set it…

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Since Lelia went through the trouble of suggesting better ways to fight spam, I decided to try upgrading … again. Upgrading had always been at the back of my mind, but I never got around to actually accomplishing it because for some stupid reason I couldn’t log into my phpadmin to back up my sql database—God, I sounded like a geek just now. Anyway, I gave it one more try and wrote my web host to ask why I couldn’t…

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For some time now, I’ve been considering closing this web log. I don’t post as regularly as I used to, and 99% of my comments are spam, which is a hassle to delete even as easy as WordPress makes it. I spent this morning deleting such spam, after spending last night and the night before doing the same thing, and in my fervor of also going into some of those old posts and disabling comments and pings, I got a…

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Katrina made me unproductive today. Since late last night, when I first heard there was a break in the levee and the reporter got a second source to confirm it, I’ve been wandering over to the television to see new video on the aftermath. I knew the worst would happen, even before the hurricane hit. The signs were all there, and I wondered why they didn’t make evacuation mandatory. H.E. said they should have had all the school busses out,…

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