I checked my credit card account on line yesterday and found that some
kind soul had paid €249.44 into it on the 28th May so it was handsomely in
credit. My daughter is also on that card but hasn't used it for months
and she says she had nothing to do with it.

I rang the CC company and they couldn't explain it but will look into it
after the weekend.

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/05/cellphone-in-microwave.html

Video of what happens when someone puts a cellphone in a microwave.

Can anyone explain what the heck is going on? Is this some weird chemical
reaction of the lithium in the battery with the plastic?

Radio reports said that Clinton picked up some delegates. Did the meeting
decide to allow the delegates? What do the Clinton and Obama camps think?
Is it settled?

When I first decided on a career in journalism in my sophomore year of
college, I had three goals in mind:

1) be the first reporter with a byline from a celestial body (e.g., the
moon, Mars),

2) win a Pulitzer Prize, and

3) become metro editor of a big-city daily.

Having just turned 51, I'm beginning to realize that I may never achieve
any of them.

#1 is obviously not going to happen. NASA isn't planning on returning to
the moon until 2018. I'm never going to pass the physical.

#2 depends as much on luck as it does skill. You can't plan to win a
Pulitzer any more than a baseball pitcher can plan to throw a no-hitter.

So it's down to #3.

To those of you who either are working or have worked in the field, do I
have any reason to believe that a newspaper or wire service will hire a
52-year-old with five years of experience, none of it more recent than
1999, to be a reporter? It seems to me that with the retrenching in the
field, I'll be competing with younger people who have more experience
than I.

... may have been greatly exaggerated.

When last I posted on this, I told you that I lost 27 lbs. in the week
ending 20 May. The next weigh-in was this past Tuesday, and showed a
22-lb. weight _gain_ in the previous week.

As noted previously, my therapist wants me to display more emotion when
the weigh-in shows a loss. (She's the one who wants me to do something
silly.) I resisted at first, but the 27-lb. loss was melting the
resistance.

Until the next week.

The staff was telling me not to get discouraged, that it was still a net
loss for the two weeks, and that the first result must have been a
mistake. In this situation, telling me not to get discouraged is like
telling Simon Cowell not to be snide.

Also, the nutritionist told me that she and a nurse didn't believe the
big loss, and so they tested the scale by getting in the bed (not
together) and checking their own weights. She said the numbers for them
were correct. So how could the first number have been wrong?

John: does your ISP by any chance use Orange's/Wanadoo's/Freeserve's DNS
servers (195.92.195.94/5)?

The reason I ask is that I too have started to suffer 'server not
found'/'unable to find address of server $servername' errors.

For no obvious reason one (and so far only one) of my free news servers,
namely news.albasani.net, keeps popping into and out of existence. Http
links - sometimes within sites, e.g. google images - are likewise randomly
producing such errors before suddenly deciding to work again.

(Note that our machines have nothing in common: I'm using a modem and
Win98SE.)

Estron's got his one-trick pony thread going (and we'll remember him
for that forever). But that got me thinking about the much rarer breed,
the TWO-trick pony.

What entities (performers, bands, whatever) can you think of that will
be remember for not one, but two different things, and only those two?

Off the top of my head, I think:

Greg Khin Band
The Breakup Song
Jeopardy

Hary Chapin
Cat's in the Cradle
Taxi

http://www.aga-ranges.com/_store/Scripts/prodview.asp?idproduct=73

This "Four Oven Cooker" from Aga is made from cast iron, covered in
"three coats of vitreous enamel" in fourteen different colors, weights
1,290 pounds, and must be installed by a certified fitter. With 4
radiant-heat ovens, two hotplates and a warming plate this Aga has
unmatched flexibility and cooking capabilities. It's $15,500, and
features a specialized roasting oven behind door number five.

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