William M. Hartnett

Just in case you’re not friends with him on Facebook, or even if you are and missed his request, Ed Barber needs your current contact information so you can receive information about the Alligator Alumni Association. Send it to cebarber AT alligator DOT org.

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… to coincide with the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. I’d make brackets and everything. Gambling encouraged. But it seems like it might turn out to be a lot of work, which is sort of exactly what I’d be trying to help everyone avoid. And the real trick is how to convince people they would look [...]

And made by me, of course. It shows how to get from The Post’s newsroom to its web department for chips-and-salsa Friday. (If your feed reader of choice doesn’t load embedded maps, definitely click on over to check it out.) See, the person on the horse is the newsroom, and, um, the golfer is us. [...]

Some headlines currently on PalmBeachPost.com. Notice the fourth item, and click on the image below to check it out:

Is Florida a great state, or what? Now if you’ll excuse us, we Palm Beach County residents have another presidential election to attend to.

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Excellent news if you’re me, meaningless news otherwise: Searching for “hartnett” with Google returns my site as the 10th result, which finally puts me on the first page. This is no mean feat, mind you, given the inexplicable fame of … that other Hartnett. Yahoo brings me in at 27th, Live Search at 22nd and [...]

Recent comment spam from my new best friend, a delightful fella named “Garden Centers in Kentucky,” not caught by Akismet:
Why didn’t anyone tell me about this blog earlier? Lol. Seriously, awesome work on this post (along with your other posts…) Keep it up!…
I almost approved it just because it was so cheerful and encouraging. Hey, [...]

> Murdoch’s ‘WSJ’ Greets New Year - With Front-Pager on Kucinich’s UFO (E&P)
The Wall Street Journal writes about Dennis Kucinich’s UFO sighting 25 years ago at Shirley MacLaine’s house. Editor & Publisher asks: “Was there really any pressing need to cover Dennis Kucinich’s old, and much laughed over, UFO encounter, especially with him about [...]

I’m obsessed with tracking my mileage. I’ve even been known to record my mileage in rental cars. Here then, for no very good reason, is the year-end mileage report for my 2001 1.8T manual transmission Volkswagen Jetta, with comparisons over 2006:
Miles driven: 7,263.1 (+15.5 percent)
Gallons burned: 248.424 (+4.1 percent)
Miles per gallon: 29.237 (+11.0 percent)
Average price [...]

Kids these days. Is there no end to their wimpy need for constant coddling? From the story Straight A’s, With a Burger as a Prize in today’s NYT:
Students in kindergarten through fifth grade can now receive a Happy Meal from a local McDonald’s restaurant as a “food prize,” as it is described, for achievements like [...]

What is the logic of the “time remaining” bar in software installation windows? I’ve been staring at “Time remaining: 3 minutes” for exactly 11 minutes while waiting for a software update to install. It is literally impossible to overestimate how immensely annoying I find this. Now it’s counting down individual seconds from 45, except each [...]