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Biella once asked something like “Yeah, but are you REALLY a geek?” To which my momentary hesitation to answer should have been enough to tell her that, “No, I am no Ubergeek.” And it’s primarily because I’m too much of a people person to ever wed myself to the world of geekiness.

I’m a geek though, so I do geeky things. For instance, the impetus for writing this entry was just to mention that a few minutes ago I opened my newly installed Kdevelop 3.0.2 application on my wonderful KDE 3.2.0 (K Desktop Environment 3.2.0) and screamed like a little girl when I clicked on the documentation tab and found programmer references for everything from Perl to STL. So exciting!

It might be high time that I laid off the acronyms and technospeak. Every techgeek has the problem of recognizing acronyms everywhere in their day to day life. This past weekend I attended a Java conference that was well worth the money I didn’t pay for it (work did). Not only did it get me thinking in alot of new directions, but it tussled my intellectual ass alittle more out of stagnation. More on that later.

But, on the downside, it had the side effect of renewing my ubiquitous problem of taking any nonword I see around town and trying to place it into a techno acronym/abbreviation. The most annoying part is that its simply unneccesary, but you can’t stop it. It feels like terets, a waste of brain “cycles.” AcronymFinder has a mention of one of my favorite abbrevs.
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If it were only so simple. At work about a week ago, I was playing around with the UML diagram features of an undisclosed application and decided to encapsulate my entire life in a use case diagram. I think it covers like 80 to 90 percent of my life activities, and I didn’t take into account extended use cases. oh why me!?

After I started using Spam Assassin, the amount of spam I get in my account went d
own about 98%. In fact, I looked at my SPAM mailbox and I got over 1400 spams in the past month. But occasionally I get one
or two, and those sneaky ones that get past the Assassin are always the best. Take for instance the person that has the new
breast:
“Hi Adam! Do you remember me?
You have visited my web site with my horny photos.
I did some changes to my buddy and I can say my gallery is brand new right now.
Look at my new breast.”