An idea has formed - what this will be for

• October 5, 2005
• James Skemp

After a good deal of thought, most of it sub-conscious, I have decided what it is that I'll be doing with this WordPress, or 'blog'.

It took a while, as one will notice by looking at the old posts - it took a great while. Yet, I believe the wait will have given this a great purpose.

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Fictional band names

• September 19, 2005
• James Skemp

The following is a listing of fictional band names, which I have thought up. While I believe there was a story regarding the first two, I can't seem to find it (I'm posting these on September 2, 2007, so quite some time has gone by since thinking these up) ... Delicious Nutritious Déjà vu Child Peace Pipe The third seems too much like an album by Sir Paul, to be of much good these days .

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Corporate Clarity #005-09-08-001

• September 8, 2005
• James Skemp

To: All Staff From: Institutional Technology and Services (ITS) It has come to our attention that a number of staff members are using so-called ‘insecure’ passwords. A ‘secure’ password is typically defined as a password with a combination of numbers, letters, and special characters, like spaces ( ), periods (.), and punctuation marks (like ‘!’ and ‘?’). An ‘insecure’ password, on the other hand, is typically defined as an easily guessed word, like ‘password’, ‘me’, ‘help’, various other four letter words, and the ever popular ‘god’.

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Are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Really Ninjas?

• September 4, 2005
• James Skemp

Description: Are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles really ninjas, or are they something else?

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On Natalie Portman

• July 24, 2005
• James Skemp

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Recent dealings (old LiveJournal post)

• July 18, 2005
• James Skemp

No update in a while, so ... 1) If you say that Clinton's My Life has 1000 pages (pretty close to that), then I'm 28.6% of the way through right now.  I'm about to shut off the computer and read for the rest of the night, which means that I may even be over 30% of the way (35%?) done by the night's end. What this means is that I'll finally give Gavin a real idea of what I think about the book.

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Why Should We Care About Strangers? Or Should We?

• July 6, 2005
• James Skemp

Back when I was in college, I can recall talking to one Ms. Tessa Gruszynski regarding how, basically, I was going to stop caring about, or being kind to, strangers. I believe the particular item was holding open doors for people who would make no gesture of thanks.

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Corporate Clarity #005-06-20-001

• June 20, 2005
• James Skemp

***CONFIDENTIAL*** ***FOR TEAM LEADERSHIP ONLY*** ***PLEASE SHRED IF FOUND*** It’s come to my attention that a number of team players have been taking full sixty minute lunch breaks in the past couple of weeks. As I’m sure you all recall from our last outing in late April, most of our team players had been taking anywhere between thirty and fifty minute lunch breaks.  It’s quite surprising, with these figures in mind, that our team players are now taking sixty minute breaks.

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Unreal Tournament and the HP Pavilion a620n

• June 12, 2005
• James Skemp

I was sceptical whether my machine, a HP Pavilion a620n, with standard specifications, could play Unreal Tournament 2004. Since I had a couple of hours to kill, late one night, I decided I would try downloading the demo, to see if it would run on my machine. I had previously downloaded the Unreal Tournament 2003 demo as well, to also see if I could get that to run, and had bought the Unreal Tournament, Game of the Year Edition, for an older computer. To make a long opening short, this guide is going to go over Unreal Tournament and the HP Pavilion a620n, with standard specifications (id est, no altercations). If you're using this computer, and would like to use one of these programs, I'm going to tell you if you can.

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Why I Don't Have 'Friends'

• June 10, 2005
• James Skemp

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