tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:61128 Cori Lannam Cori Lannam 2011-08-11T19:08:26Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-14:61128:274808 2011-08-11T19:08:26Z 2011-08-11T19:08:26Z public 28 Someone just came into my office to deliver a FedEx and caught me trawling Facebook -- for purely work-related purposes! But there was no conversational opening in which to mention that, so now she probably thinks I'm a total slacker.<br /><br />Oh well. Guess that means I might as well slack off!<br /><br />Things I've been meaning to post all week:<br /><br />* Interesting perspectives on the UK rioting/looting:<br /> -- <a href="http://pennyred.blogspot.com/2011/08/panic-on-streets-of-london.html">Penny Red - Panic on the streets of London</a><br /> -- <a href="http://motowns.blogspot.com/2011/08/im-no-writer.html">Eyewitness account of neighborhood looting</a><br /><br />Stay safe, UK flist. <br /><br />* On this side of the pond, the state of society is less flammable, but no less depressing -- <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/08/09/america_crime_poverty/index.html">How America turned poverty into a crime</a> by Barbara Ehrenreich, an afterward to her book <i>Nickeled and Dimed</i> in its 10th anniversary.<br /><br />* In the potentially world-changing (in a good way) news department -- <a href="http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-drug-viral-infection.html">New drug could cure nearly any viral infection</a><br /><br />* For my greenies, some cool Android apps to help with environmentally safe and non-toxic shopping -- <a href="http://www.emagazine.com/magazine/app-happy">http://www.emagazine.com/magazine/app-happy</a><br /><br />I'm not linking to the one about the effects of cell phone radiation. *g*<br /><br />And back to the shallow waters of fandom--<br /><br />* I think I am not going to finish my <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=reel_merlin'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?user=reel_merlin'><b>reel_merlin</b></a></span> story by the deadline. This kind of breaks my heart, but there's just still too much to do and I refuse to shortchange this story except by the limitations of my own abilities. I will keep working on it and post when I'm done (assuming that's before the next round!)<br /><br />* I have submitted my final votes and PTHON IS DONE. I have at least survived with my perfect participation record intact, if not my dignity.<br /><br />* Update on my computer woes -- My desktop, which had previously succumbed to a really vicious Windows 7 security update, is up and running again, seemingly no worse for the wear! I had to reinstall Windows, but thanks to Dell's DataSafe emergency backup (which I didn't even know I had), I did not lose anything. EVEN MY CHROME TABS WERE SAVED, which of course, is the most important thing because that's where all the stories I haven't read yet live. And there are a lot of them.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=corilannam&ditemid=274808" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments