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There’s those moments that make a dreary day spent fighting stubborn computers brighter.  Like Jordan speaking of the upcoming influx of new student computers with Vista coming in for repair:

“We fixed your computer by installing a patch.  It’s called XP.”

26 hours after my first round of poking, Facebook finally lifted my poking ban. While finishing up the last hundred or so on my friends list, I encountered the message “You are approaching the limit for poking. Slow down or you’ll hit a temporary block!”

And as of the time of writing, I’ve had another 83 poke-backs. Hmm…doing a bit of frightening math: I poked 340 people and received 134 pokes back, therefore, 39.4% poked me back within two days of being poked. I will scientifically deduce that 39.4% of my friends have no life outside of Facebook. And apparently one of my friends is two-fifths of a person.

Not too shabby. We’ll see how the remaining responses trickle in over the next week or so.

Tired of playing secular games like Roller Coaster Tycoon and the Sims 2, but not quite getting the thrill you hoped in Left Behind: Eternal Forces?  There’s a revolutionary new game out there just for you, sure to please even the most religious of gamers.  No matter what those religious inclinations may be.

From tonight’s Property Ladder episode on TLC:  “I personally think that having two sinks is crucial to a happy marriage.”

Sigh.  Americans frustrate me sometimes.

I went on a Facebook poking frenzy yesterday, curious how many people would poke me back. After 225 pokes (as best I can calculate), I received the message “You are temporarily blocked from poking. Misuse of Facebook’s features may result in your account being disabled. ” According to their Help page, “You have been temporarily blocked from using one of these features because you exceeded a Facebook limit that is based on the speed and quantity of use. Your privileges will be restored within a few hours. These blocks prevent spammers from abusing the message and poke features.”

A day later, I’m still blocked. Apparently they’re following the philosophy of “a day is like a thousand years”. Sigh.

I still have another 150 or so friends to poke before my scientific experiment is over. I hope those “few hours” are somewhat shorter than a thousand years. And that they don’t disable my account if I finish the last hundred-fifty pokes the moment they renable my poking.

As of now, I’ve received back fifty pokes. That’s actually not too shabby, and speaks volumes of how addicted everyone is. Silly everyone. Silly me.

…thirty seconds later…make that fifty-one pokes returned.

See my Project Facebook-Poke Results for the conclusion to this exciting saga.

I make lists of things I should do in order to avoid doing them.

And then I write blog posts about making lists of things I should do in order to further avoid doing them.

Quote of the day, compliments of Rick: “We should start campaigning for Richard Stallman to be the first martyr of the Free Software Foundation.”

This is a brilliantly-written account of our new lives with Vista.  Thanks for the link, DrBacchus.