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I just returned from my second trip to Dallas in a month. I was given approximately 2 hours advance notice — barely enough to get back to my desk, send an email, drive home, eat lunch, pack my bags and head to the airport.

This job is fun, but it does get quite stressful. I guess I understand why people abuse their expense accounts and eat at the finest restaurants when they travel on a work assignment. It’ll take some time for me to get used to it — I feel something tug at me everytime I’ve just finished eating and the waiter hands me a check for $20. Especially when that’s the fifth meal in the row that I didn’t eat at home.

OK, I’ve just about had it with these Brits. I’m talking about that liberal whacko newspaper from the UK called the Guardian. How can any large media organization be this irresponsible?

I scoffed when they launched their “Operation Clark County” project asking their readers to spam Ohio natives with letters telling them to vote for Kerry. Ohio residents were not amused, and collectively told the meddling Brits to sod off, even going as far as to remind them that the issue of British influence over American political affairs was settled well over 200 years ago during the American Revolution.

Now the Guardian is invoking the names of Lee Harvey Oswald and John Wilkes Booth, calling for Bush’s assassination in an expletive-filled, unbelievably low and repulsive tirade against the American president. How does the British society manage to tolerate this kind of garbage from their media?

Yeah, I know the common wisdom out there is that E17 will be released shortly before Duke Nukem Forever, and a few hours after the apocalypse begins.

Well friends, our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. Everything you see in this preview video is from real, existing code that works now. But don’t ask me if you can download it or where you can get it. If you know where to get it, good for you. But it’s not in CVS, and it won’t be until certain important things are in place. And no, there’s no ETA either. It will be ready when it is ready.

For all you undecided voters out there, the choice is clear:

$0.01?
$0.10?
$1.00?
$10? $100? $1000?

$1,230.

I’ll be sure to employ extra-special scrutiny next time I open a bag of Fritos.

So I just spent the past hour trying to figure out why in the world Gmail suddenly stopped working after I installed Firefox 1.0PR on Windows. For some reason I was unable to click messages to open them at all.

Eventually, it turned out that after upgrading the All-in-one Gestures extension, the trigger button for mouse gestures was somehow reset to the left button. As a result, the extension was preventing me from opening messages in Gmail.

Silly little critters.

Hmm…that “Global Test” Senator John Forbes Kerry was talking about during the presidential debate — someone found it! You can take it here. Apparently I’m no good at passing it either — my score of -3400 wasn’t sufficiently high to justify my “imperialistic foreign adventure”.

Meanwhile, Bill at INDC has the scoop on what appears to be Kerry cheating during the debate. Now I’m pretty skeptical myself, but I’m really trying to figure out what convincing explanation the senator could have for that footage. Bill wonders if it was a hankie, but why would he pull out his hankie, unfold it and put it on his podium in front of him? Well whatever happens of it, the Dems will say this is a front by the Republicans to cover up Bush’s loss, and Al-Reuters and the AP will happily oblige to keep the story buried as much as they can. Can’t say the same about CBS News. They’ve got problems of their own to deal with…oh speaking of which, Brokaw and Jennings are now supporting Rather. What is it about major national news anchors and their unbelievably suicidal tendencies?

Update: It seems Kerry hasn’t gotten the point: he needs to stop trying to play football. This is getting embarassing. We’ve already seen compelling footage from Football Fans for Truth, but now this!

Update: I just saw the most hilarious caption at Beldarblog: “I’m John Kerry, and I’m reporting for doodie!”

Update:Looks like John Kerry was guilty of holding a pen. Skepticism was well founded.

My, these Cox & Forkum guys are good.