It is Friday the Thirteenth
I've never been much on superstition, but today, I walk into work, and he email is down. This company runs on email. My tasks and phone numbers for meetings are all in there. Email has been acting funky for a week or two. They replaced a network card on our Exchange Server a couple of weeks ago. I wonder what is wrong with it this time.
I can still get to my web mail. If they would only let me check my mail from the internet, I could probably still get some work done. This trouble is Houston specific. Odds are the web system and local system would not both fail at the same time.

Saint

Pope Benedict XVI said today he had opened the process for the sainthood of Pope John Paul II. The move overrides the usual five-year waiting period following the death of a possible candidate. The pope made the announcement in Latin during a meeting at the Basilica of St John Lateran with the Roman clergy. news.Scotsman.com

There is a natural affinity to really love the pope that just died. He was a pretty good pope as popes go. People liked him for the most part. Was he, however, saint worthy? There is a reason it takes several years before you can nominate someone for sainthood. It is to give people time to "get over it" and make a clear headed decision. They are short sheeting the process. I personally think it is a mistake to rush.

Irony
It is easier to say "world wide web" than it is to say "www". There are fewer syllables when you say it out.

Mouse
So, I have this IBM mouse at work. It has this little nob between the two main buttons. This nob takes the place of a scroll wheel. I hate it. It is never right. It is not really adjustable. You have to put 75 lbs of pressure on it to go up and just blow on it to go down. That is no big deal. I can deal with that. The thing that pissed me off is IT GLOWS BRIGHT BLUE. I finally got mad enough to pull the one little screw out of the mouse, take it apart and crush the LED with a pare of pliers.  Did you ever have one of those toys that has one pin through the middle with like ten pieces that only went together in one way. You pull the pin and it is a 3D puzzle and a juggling act to get the frigging pin back in place. I had one that was an airplane. It had about eight or ten pieces and you had to put them all together before you could get the pin through the middle. That is what this mouse was like. One little screw in the bottom, and the whole mouse comes apart. There is this little plastic lens thing in the bottom that just sits there. There are top and bottom plastic bits. There are separate button bits. It has the little motherboard. It has two LEDs floating around inside. I busted the blue one with the pliers. Then I had to flux around with the wire that runs from the mouse buttons to the motherboard. It was all quite comical. I do, however, have a fully functional and non-glowing mouse.