When Banks Competes

“When Banks Compete…You Win!”

Isn’t that how capitalism is supposed to work? Have things changed so much that we’re suppsed to celebrate when competition happens?

Updated Rooftop

I’ve updated the Rooftop Brew page. I rebranded and updated an old school project for dreamweaver that was once called Homebrew U. Looks like someone else is using the name, so I’ll concede. Anyway, the link at the top “homebrew” and the Rooftop Brew link on the side will both work. Let me know if something is sorely missing. I plan on working on it more eventually.

Oh, and the links section has been updated some. Turns out BB Edit Lite will let me save files with Unix line breaks, so when I’m using Vi, I don’t get those damn ^M things everywhere.

Verizon phonebook dumping

Verizon recently vommited a copy of their yellow-paged phone directory on everyone’s door step in my neighborhood. I asked Michelle why it wasn’t considered dumping. I don’t remember the answer, but it didn’t satisfy me. I was going to rattle off some unfounded and uneducated bit about phone books, but found someone else had beat me to it. Looks like Denver is having the same problem. The author wrote from the same frame of mind as well. Shalom!

Thanksgiving, Out; Christmas, In.

Michelle, Barley and I ventured back to Yakima for Thanksgiving. We were able to visit family and friends while home, and were reminded how thankful we are for all of them. We had to come home today, but the drive was very pretty. Jack Frost has been out and about for the last couple days, so every limb of every tree was laced white with ice crystals. The desert is beautiful in the winter too.

Tonight we bought a small grand fir tree and decorated it. We have very few ornaments, but it excites me to see the tree that way because I know how many we’ll find over the years together. We did pick up a dog ornament and painted it to look like Barley. Our hope is that he doesn’t destroy the tree. He’s got a certain fondness for wood.

Now we’re waiting for Scott & Sarah to come over for dinner. I was able to bring back some Grant’s Ales in 1/2 gallon bottles. Tonights menu includes Bert’s Perfect Porter & cask conditioned Scottish Ale. Bert’s Scottish Ale is like the shot heard round the world.

Doesn’t Like Google

An instructor stopped by because he wasn’t happy with his Google results. The way his name came up in Google paired his name with someone else’s quote, which made him look inept. Sure that’s annoying, but what am I supposed to do about it? I’m still trying for name supremacy myself.

Instead of saying no, I submitted the page for re-indexing and put a no-snippet meta tag on the offending page.

Bad Karma Votes

According to my server logs, a search bot has been giving me negative karma votes. According to grep, its given me 40 negative votes since September. No wonder I get bad karma votes for seemingly benign posts. Guess I’ll have to set up a robots.txt file.

209.249.67.113 – – [20/Nov/2002:17:40:01 -0800] “vote=negative&entry=00000110 HTTP/1.1” 200 3609 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 compatible ZyBorg/1.0 (wn.zyborg@looksmart.net; http://www.WISEnutbot.com)