I have to say, not overly impressed by their new look covers - surely romantic novels are all about serify, flowery writing and swirls, not rather cold "modern" sans-serif font over a strip that feels rather intrusive on the picture.

That was a review of Mills and Boon, I hope you enjoyed it.

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http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2009/07/15.html

bestow: to give or confer.

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Title: Bicker
By: LiteraryBeauty
Pairing: Hermione/Draco
Word count: 100
House: Ravenclaw
Rated: PG
Challenge: Flat

 

“Ugh!” Hermione cried. “You’d claim the Earth was flat if it somehow benefitted you.”

            Draco looked thoughtful for a moment. “How could that benefit me?”

            She shrugged, forgetting the argument in light of intellectual pursuit, however asinine. “Maybe you could get more land out of it. Or you could invent a new prejudice against those on the underside of the Earth.”

            “So you presumptuously assume we’re on the top? For all we know, we’re the underside!”

            Hermione opened her mouth to argue, but then snapped it shut. “What are you talking about?” she cried.

            Draco shrugged. “I never know anymore.”

While I was writing that previous journal entry, I discovered that it's been two years and ten days since Zoe died.

All evening long I've been holding her favorite toy squirrel.

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Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Norah Jones ~ Turn Me On

Herein lies a tale of woe that may amuse the system administrators in the audience. ;)

The Town of Celebration is run by the seven-person Board of Directors of the Residential Owners Association. Every month they hold a public board meeting, but one afternoon in March an "emergency meeting" was suddenly announced for the following morning:

The purpose of the meeting is to discuss and approve the rental agreement of unused Class B IP Address space owned by CROA to Innersat Networks. This agreement will give Innersat the use of a range of IP addresses that CROA does not currently use.

In short: The town used to maintain a modem bank for residents without broadband to dial in for Internet access, but this service was removed back in 2001. The modems used the IP addresses 168.205.0.0 through 168.205.255.255 (also referred to as 168.205.0.0/16, a "Class B" range) which had been given to the town by Disney (when Disney ran Celebration) back in the mid-1990s. This was a block of more than 65,000 internet addresses which Celebration still held and everyone had forgotten about.

Then somebody remembered, and figured the town could make money off it.

This announcement immediately got attention among townspeople wanting to make more money off it. Said one resident: The world is running out of IP addresses. This means that our unused Class B IP block might become a valuable commodity. I hope someone can convince me that we are not about to give away a potentially valuable asset. Said someone else: If we can get some cash now and still have the addresses to sell in the future that seems worthwhile for the Board of Directors to consider.

Don, a member of the Board, stepped in to provide more information. CROA has been sitting on this unused, valuable asset for MANY years. For all of these years these addresses have made us exactly $0. He explained that a company had been found which was very eager to use these addresses for its clients — so interested in closing the deal right away, in fact, that they had signed a contract to pay Celebration $10,000 every month for an entire year, and they had agreed to a contract which was entirely in Celebration's favor! If we found someone to pay us even more money for the addresses, we could terminate the contract immediately! If we discovered that Innersat was using the addresses to spam anybody, we could terminate the contract immediately! The CROA board does not have the time or expertise to shop the country for a better deal, Don added. This is not an area of expertise for any of us. But we could certainly use an extra $120,000!

Wow, this deal looked too good to be true!

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http://groovymother.com/2009/week/28/#treasure-island-music-festival

Flaming Lips, Bob Mould, MGMT, The Streets, Girl Talk... Should be a great weekend.

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Current Mood: frustrated

You sometimes hear of eminent mathematicians who write pages and pages of proof that 1 + 1 = 2. Sir Isaac Newton made a career out of explaining how people who sit under apple trees are likely to get hit on the head by apples.

The latest entry into the pantheon of "Overdetailed proof of the totally bleedin' obvious" comes from someone called zecafonso2000 in Portugal, and concerns the 2008 Festival da Canção. And it's got the word plágio in it, so you already know it's going to be good...

Government sites seem to be the best for finding out what types of jobs are around and what they entail. The non-gov sites either are just regurgitating the gov information or want you to spend an obscene amount of money to see their database. (So, for all you know, they are also regurgitating the data compiled by the Department of Labor and the Department of Education.)

Right now searching http://www.bls.gov/oco/ - unlike http://www.careervoyages.com , I can save direct links to the information, instead of copying and pasting it.

( But I reserve the right to c&p specific paragraphs for quick reference... )

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Current Location: United Kingdom, England, Greater London

I had treats last night: The Right Stuff at the BFI, and a scoop of Eton Mess-flavoured ice cream on the South Bank beforehand.

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Spoilers: The Russians get a man in space before the Americans do; the first American in space is a chimpanzee; the X-20 programme gets canned.

Current Mood: impressed
Current Music: Pink Floyd - Yet Another Movie | Powered by Last.fm

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http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2009/07/14.html

louche: of questionable taste or morality.

I'm going to check another site tomorrow. I want to see what's possible before focusing on one particular thing to aim for.

To be honest, I am planning to go back to school in a year or so. It seems to be unanimous that I am PhD material.

Projected growth: 18-26%
Median wage: $29/hr

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Projective growth: 9-17%
Median wage: $39/hr

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Projected growth: 9-17%
Median wage: $20/hr depending on the industry

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For the curious, I'm getting this data from http://www.careervoyages.gov/

Projected growth: 18-26%
Wage: $26/hr median depending on the actual industry

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Projected growth: 9-17%
Wages: $17.72/hr

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Projected growth: 18-26%
Wage: $27 to $44 per hour

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Projected growth: 9-17%
Wages: around $18.39/hr

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Projected growth: 18-26%
Wage: $24-$40 per hour

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Projective growth: 18-26%
Possible salary: $17-$32 per hour

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A friend just sent me one of each of the following Lithuanian coins:

10 centų


20 centų


1 litas


2 litai



Thanks, Viv!!!