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Old Data

I got a letter from my auto insurance company about the renewal of my policy. I was a bit worried because it did not reflect the policy changes I’ve been making (trying to make) in the last few months. When I called them, they explained that the letter may have been printed before the policy changes were made. How far in advanced do they print those things? Don’t they want to send you accurate and up-to-date data?

So, I wasn’t too worried since the whole reason they sent the letter was to confirm all of this, but then they asked if my employer was The Corporation, which worried me a bit since I left The Corporation five years ago. They did have the correct work phone number though. They then asked about the home address I had about seven years ago, when I first started the policy, even though they sent the letter to my last address, not my most current.

I’m going to try my best to avoid any sort of auto mishap, because I get the feeling if anything happens, my auto insurance company will somehow not be able to verify I even exist.

Lesson for the day: Data maintenace is hard.

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Happy Podiversary

Hmmm, I had considered going with the title “A few days late and 8 million short…”

Sorry, what I meant to say is, congrats to Adam for the one year anniversary of The Daily Source Code

The “few days late” is reference to Audio Experiment #1, which was the first RasterWeb! Audio from 2004-08-18. Less than two weeks after that, renko was released

As for the “8 million” that’s um, a reference to how many podcasts there are now, just one year later.

(You’re welcome.)

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PSPmail

What’s the old saying, "Every program expands until it can read mail"?

I guess the same thing goes for hardware too nowadays: PSP going to get an email client (among other things)?

(My Nokia phone also does email, but really, to do email right, I obviously need to get a PSP!)

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MediaWiki Wins!

What’s the old saying “Let the Wiki win…”? (Or something like that…)

As mentioned in Weblog versus Wiki I was contemplating using MediaWiki for a project and good gosh was the install easy! It was almost too easy… You know, one of those “that’s it?” type installs you read about on weblogs…

Configuring took just a little bit of time… I wanted clean urls and to restrict editing to registered users. It took more time to find that info than it did to edit LocalSettings.php to do the right thing…

I still like UseModWiki for what it does, but so far MediaWiki is pretty damn nice…

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MD to WI

Welcom back D-Money… Welcome back…