November 2008
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Just Where IS Uncle Fester?
I don’t pay much attention to Boy George anymore, which would explain my delight when I viewed a photograph of him today. For some reason, I felt an urge to watch an Addams Family DVD. I wonder why? Could be that Boy George may have a new future in film!
Jackie Coogan as Uncle Fester (left) [...]
Back up OpenOffice.org Documents on Amazon S3
When it comes to cheap and secure off-site backup and storage, few services can beat Amazon S3. And if you want to easily back up your OpenOffice.org documents on Amazon S3, you can do so using a simple OpenOffice.org Basic macro and the s3cmd utility (http://s3tools.logix.cz/s3cmd). First of all, you have to install the s3cmd [...]
The KKK Now
I once owned a KKK outfit owned by my grandmother (KKK = Ku Klux Klan – warning – this will take you to the actual KKK Website, so you may not want to contribute to their online numbers) . What happened to that canvas-like outfit? I don’t know…I left it at her house, and I believe a cousin took it (and you know which cousin you are…as do all the other cousins). That loss – which is tantamount to a Chicago museum loss – doesn’t matter so much as how and why my grandparents joined the KKK in the early 1940s in the south in the first place.
