We are not afraid

Here's an interesting art response to terrorism: check out the werenotafraid.com website, which was started in response to the London bombings. The pictures are being sent in from all over the world. Here is the link to the WNA Team's favorite images of the thousands which have been sent in.

ICE your phone

This was a useful tip passed on by my office manager, who got it from the cell phone company which handles our law firm's account:

Paramedics will turn to a victim's cell phone for clues to that person's identity. You can make their job much easier with a simple idea that they are trying to get everyone to adopt: ICE. ICE stands for In Case of Emergency. If you add an entry in the contacts list in your cell phone under ICE, with the name and phone no. of the person that the emergency services should call on your behalf, you can save them a lot of time and have your loved ones contacted quickly. If you have more than one entry, use ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3, etc. It only takes a few moments of your time to do. Paramedics know what ICE means and they look for it immediately.

Computer problems

We have suddenly had problems develop with the new computer. Rob has taken it in to the store to have the techs look at it. It keeps inexplicably shutting itself off. Keep your fingers crossed for us. Not sure if I'll be able to be online much this weekend; it depends on what the techs discover is causing the difficulty. There's the laptop, except that Rob is supposed to be using that to (finally, please God) finish the fricking taxes.

Damn it. That's a brand new (and very expensive) computer.