“…The notes are weird and the scansion odd

The chords, bizarre beyond mortal ken,

Can never thereafter be picked out again…”

Vixyish nailed this pretty well. I haven’t yet performed in it, but maybe some day… :-)

I dropped by the local Cingular store the other day, and found that the palmOne Treo they had on display was actually activated.

Never thought I’d be reading my blog from a cell phone… and that it would look as good as it did. CSS r00lz!

MSN Direct just gave us SPOT owners access to some new watch faces. The one I chose to use along with my trusty “Quarter” face is “Bling Monogram”, which allows you to put your initials on the face — but forgets to tell you how. :-)

Thanks to SPOTstop, I was able to get the answer: holding down the middle button put me into the mode where I could scroll through the letters.

Tom Smith points at a comparison of a healthy brain and Terri Schiavo’s.

Another commenter on his LJ points out that it wasn’t Michael who made the decision to discontinue life-prolonging measures for Terri.

Rather than make the decision himself, Michael followed a procedure permitted by Florida courts by which a surrogate such as Michael can petition a court, asking the court to act as the ward’s surrogate and determine what the ward would decide to do. Michael did this, and based on statements Terri made to him and others, he took the position that Terri would not wish to continue life-prolonging measures. The Schindlers took the position that Terri would continue life-prolonging measures. Under this procedure, the trial court becomes the surrogate decision-maker, and that is what happened in this case.

The trial court in this case held a trial on the dispute. Both sides were given opportunities to present their views and the evidence supporting those views. Afterwards, the trial court determined that, even applying the “clear and convincing evidence” standard — the highest burden of proof used in civil cases — the evidence showed that Terri would not wish to continue life-prolonging measures.

I’ve been quiet the past couple of weeks, because I didn’t have internet access at home. Unemployment will do that to your bank account. :-) I’ll try to get a bit more talkative, though.

At the beginning of the month, I started a new position at Mailhandlers in Seattle. It’s very similar to the position I blogged about a year ago, to the point of being only about a 5-minute walk away. I’m not sure I can compare and contrast without breaking NDAs at one or the other, so I’ll just leave it at that. :-)