Looks like we made it through another week. Well, once we get through today, anyway. It’s bright and sunny here – but kinda cold. Good thing I don’t really need to go out (except maybe to the store – I need to go count the beer in the fridge). I looked at my time accruals yesterday, and lo-and-behold I got a vacation bonus day for surviving another year of work. This means I’m back up to the theoretical max of 40 vacation days (as long as I get my balance back down to 40 by December 31, I won’t lose any time, though). I also have three holiday comp days in the bank – and I earn another one on the 12th. Clearly, I need to take some time off. Too bad I always seem to have yet another project (or two) due, because what I really feel like doing is hibernating for the next couple of months. Wake me up when the leaves start popping out.

I don’t know if anybody out there has Comcast, but I thought this story was pretty interesting.

Comcast customer Ronaldo Boschulte didn’t know exactly what he was getting when the company swapped his malfunctioning modem for a new one. The cable modem doubles as a Wi-Fi router—that much he was expecting. But he didn’t realize the router would, by default, broadcast a public Wi-Fi network that anyone with a Comcast account could connect to.
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Customers can turn the second signal off if they choose, but it’s definitely an opt-out program rather than opt-in.

…Comcast doesn’t provide instructions for turning it off manually. You have to call Comcast for that.

“You will always have the ability to disable the XFINITY Wi-Fi feature on your Wireless Gateway by calling 1-800-XFINITY,” the company says. Presumably, a customer service representative will try to talk you out of disabling it.

“We encourage all subscribers to keep this feature enabled as it allows more people to enjoy the benefits of XFINITY Wi-Fi around the neighborhood,” the company says.

Yet another reason to not get the Cable Modem/WiFi Router bundled together from your ISP.

Here’s another reason to move to England – people there apparently don’t know shit about the fairy stories in the bible.

Widespread ignorance exists among children and parents about the contents of the Bible, research has suggested. Surveys for the Bible Society found almost three in 10 young people were unaware the story of the birth of Jesus came from the Bible. A similar number of children had never read or heard about tales of the Crucifixion or Adam and Eve.

The report was based on a poll of 800 children aged eight to 15 and about 1,100 parents.

I guess once they unloaded all their religious fanatics on the poor unsuspecting natives in North America, they were able to get back to living normal lives. Probably explains why they have such un-Christian institutions like Universal Healthcare.

Oh well, time to get back to work. Only another 6-7 hours to kill.