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I just got a PO for a database server for one of our offices. It's going to have dual quad-core Xeon chips. must be nice.

On another work related note, does anyone else notice how frequently it occurs that you write an email to someone and take great pains to explain the concept you are trying to convey in two or three different ways to make sure they get it and then they still entirely miss your point? 'Cause I do.

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theferrett posted a link to a web page that the Hillary Clinton campaign has put up wherein interner surfers everywhere can vote on the song to be used as her campaign music.

Along with that, he suggested that, since there seems to be no limit on the number of times a given person (or IP address) can vote, that we might want to, shall we say, practice some Chicago style democracy. His song of choice? Will Smith's The Fresh Prince of Bel-air.

In a response, someone suggested copying and pasting the song title in question into the write-in box and refreshing the browser instead of continually going back and forward to the page.

I did one better. On my laptop here at work, I've set up an automatically repeating mouse macro (I'm using GhostMouse; a nifty little freeware program that I recommend playing with) that pastes the text in to the write-in field, votes, and refreshes the page ad infinitum. The macro is about fifteen seconds long, give or take. That should translate into four votes a minute, or two hundred and forty votes per hour. Not huge in the grand scheme of things, but hey; maybe if enough other people jump on the bandwagon...

I might just set this up to run on three or four systems at home too. If nothing else, at least maybe we'll give the campaign workers a few laughs. If you decide to join in, check on theferrett's entry and copy and past his song title and artist exactly (or grab it here between the quotes: "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air Theme by Will Smith"). That way all the votes will be sure to tabulate together even if it's done by a computer.

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The lens I rented shows that it was delivered today. Unfortunately, it was signed for by someone named 'R. Pratt' and is not at my house. This is despite my definitely having put the correct address on the order and it being shipped with signature confirmation. Either someone came to my house at seven-thirty in the morning and signed for my package, or the mailman (yes, it is a mailman) picked the wrong house. In either case, it would appear that they either didn't bother to check the signatory against the name on the package, or they just don't care who signs for it.

Either way, it looks like I'm calling the post office again tomorrow.

I'm getting really annoyed with the United States Postal Service. The shipment is insured against loss; hopefully that will still cover it if the postal records show delivery. It's a Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM that costs half as much to replace as I paid for my camera. *sighs* At least it wasn't a multi-thousand dollar super-telephoto or something.