well we have just been a talkative bunch here on LLU the last couple of months, haven’t we? we have lots to talk about; it’s just a matter of finding the time to do it. case in point: i have several links i’d like to shares, including a couple of web-based multimedia repositories, one gadget [...]

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According to a report on ESPN.com this morning, the LPGA will require players to be “effective in English starting in 2009.”
I don’t follow golf, so I’m not sure what exactly the LPGA is thinking on this one (are English speakers losing too often to their international counterparts?) but it seems ridiculous. Other sports leagues which [...]

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Over the past ten days, I’ve spent a half-dozen hours on the phone with my ISP’s customer service line, trying to figure out why my intarwebs aren’t working. I politely described my issue to several different reps, answered the same Level 1 troubleshooting questions multiple times over (yes, in fact, I -have- checked to make [...]

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courtesy http://xkcd.com
For much of the last three weeks, this comic has been my life: mooching free wireless (thank you, jrodie, whoever you are) from a neighbor while living out of boxes in my new apartment here in San Francisco. Earlier this summer I accepted a position at UC San Francisco, working in the Center for [...]

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LLU now has a built-in email subscription service … if you like being automatically notified when we update the site, but don’t want to deal with RSS, you can now have updates sent directly to the email address of your choice! Visit the site, put your email address in the box, and click submit. It’s [...]

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