http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Sponsor-Appreciation,-Paper-eBook,-Confused-Occupancy,--More.aspx

Please show your support for The Daily WTF by checking out the companies that have been kind enough to sponsor us. And, in doing so, I’m sure you’ll find some pretty cool products and services built by like-minded developers and IT professionals.

The Daily WTF Sponsors
		Microsoft WebsiteSpark - a great program for web shops and freelance web developers and designers where you get some great software (Visual Studio Pro, SQL Server, Server 2008, etc), at no upfront cost for three years; it also provides support and resources to help grow business
		Rackspace Cloud - massively scalable hosting for .NET (2,3,3.5) PHP, Ruby, etc., with unlimited sites & mailboxes, simple online provisioning, and an enterprise clustered platform that's supported by real people.
		Peer 1 - provides award-winning Managed Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, Co-location, and Network services offered through 15 data center across North America. With over 10,000 businesses hosted on their legendary SuperNetwork™backbone, PEER 1 delivers one of the highest server performance and network outputs in the industry.
		MindFusion - a great source for flow-charting and diagramming components for a variety of platforms including .NET, WPF, ActiveX and Swing
		Software Verification - software engineering tools for memory leak detection, code coverage, performance profiling, thread lock contention analysis and thread deadlock detection, flow tracing and application replay on the Windows Vista, 2003, XP, 2000 and NT platforms.
		Atlassian - the folks behind JIRA (which, in turn inspired Manual JIRA) wanted to let you know that they're not a "follow the rules" software company who realizes that there is no single recipe for practicing agile development. They were once hungry for practical tips, so they thought they should share their agile story.
		SoftLayer - serious hosting provider with datacenters in three cities (Dallas, Seattle, DC) that has plans designed to scale from a single, dedicated server to your own virtual data center (complete with racks and all)
		SlickEdit - makers of that very-impressive code editor and some pretty neat Eclipse and VisualStudio.NET tools and add-ins, some of which (Gadgets) are free. Check out this short video highlighting just one of SlickEdit's Visual Studio integration features.

And now, back to our regularly, completely off-topic scheduled program.

"There is something so fundamentally wrong with this," David Daniel notes, "I bought an 'eBook' from the Arizona State University bookstore. At checkout, I wondered why they wanted me to choose a 'shipping address' and a 'carrier'... and now I know. They FedEx'ed me the eBook."

Carlos Santander spotted this at one of the rooms in the New Yorker Hotel in New York City.

Sam Ashmore writes, "I came home one day after they 'upgraded' the cable, and I found this."

"I found this graffiti on a wall," Marco writes, "I guess some people really couldn't deal with the move to NTFS?"

"I found this 'jack battery' at a friend's flat," writes Martin Haimberger, "the cable which comes out of the wall supplies them all! What a great engineer."

"I don't really know where to put a red frame to mark the spot," Norbert writes, "maybe around the whole picture?"

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"We told you our Optional ROM Placement setting was risky," Hae Yu writes, "but did you believe us? Noooo!"

Chris writes, "I think they forgot something."

"Waitaminute," writes Ryan Blace, "so how am I supposed to get in?"

"It might have been helpful to have an instruction to 'read page 61 first' on the front of the manual," writes Paul Webb

"I was a bit confused when I saw the price difference on the two Leo bars," Wouter Verhelst commented, "needless to say, I went for number 51."

"When the soap runs out," Hans Holmberg wonders, "where are you supposed to download more?"

http://www.cartoonlabs.com/comics/index.php?date=2009-12-04&show=sinfest

Sinfest
Tatsuya Ishida

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DilbertDailyStrip/~3/e8Sx_tQxN24/

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-12-04/

http://www.explosm.net/comics/1877/

http://xkcd.com/671/

http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=56486

http://www.chabad.org/56486

LiveJournal: The First Decade

Just in time for holiday shopping, we're thrilled to announce the release of our ten-year anniversary anthology. Published by Blurb.com, the book showcases a decade of extraordinary talent drawn from LiveJournal users around the world. This must-read compilation features stories, memes, photos, comics, editorials, graphic content, and more, including:

1. Excerpts from Oh No They Didn't (a/k/a ohnotheydidnt), the largest community on LiveJournal, covering celebrity gossip, entertainment news, and pop culture
2. A look at post-Katrina New Orleans from the journal of Poppy Z. Brite
3. Gripping narratives, including a poignant reverie on a blind date
4. Photography that spans the globe, ranging from old-fashioned Polaroids to underwater photography
5. Mouthwatering dishes from food_porn

What began as a late-night inspiration back in Brad Fitzpatrick's college dorm in 1999 has grown to encompass nearly 25 million users worldwide, with journals and communities covering every conceivable hobby, passion, and topic. To get your copy, please visit the Blurb Bookstore. For updates and entries from book contributors, please join lj_turns10.

Tweaks and enhancements

• You can now ban a user from all of your communities and journals at once. To access this feature, hover over the person's userpic and choose Ban user everywhere from the drop-down menu.
• Follow LiveJournal on Twitter!

Give a little to help a lot!

In honor of National AIDS Awareness month, we've added a new charitable vgift. For each red ribbon you purchase for $2.99, we'll donate 100 percent of gross proceeds to IAVI.org (the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative) to support the development and global distribution of an affordable HIV vaccine (we'll cover credit card fees). You can read more about IAVI at lj_cares. While we're on the subject, we raised $740 from our November fundraiser for Love Without Boundaries, which supports emergency healthcare and adoption of Chinese orphans. We thank you for helping us help others.

Photos of the week

We're back with more incredible pictures from our super-talented LiveJournal photographers. Congratulations to ilya_gorokhov, who is the winner of our very first lj_photophile poll.

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Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay safe and snug out there!

http://randomreality.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2009/12/3/4396294.html

A mentally ill, suicidal teenager was ferried around for hours by an ambulance crew because no NHS unit would accept her, the BBC has learnt .

The girl eventually had to be taken to a police cell, documents revealed under the Freedom of Information Act show.

This is just shameful.

Sadly I have often said that of all the psychiatric referrals I have made over the years first as an A&E nurse, and then for the ambulance service - only a handful have gone without incident.

I've had units refuse patients that they should be taking, and one unit had a mental health nurse accuse me, and the police, of lying in order to get them to see a patient. This goes without mentioning the sometimes awful 'care' that they get for existing medical problems. Or the inability of trained staff to do CPR should one have a cardiac arrest.

Sadly it seems that mental health is still the unwanted child of the NHS.

Today I attended a man with obvious (though undiagnosed) mental health issues. He'd had a fall and had been unable to get up for two days. When we arrived he was laying in his own urine in an unlit bedroom.

The flat in which he lived had no electricity and no heating. It was freezing. There was no food in the fridge.

Needless to say we have referred him to our 'vulnerable adult' team and with luck and a fair wind he'll get a proper psychiatric assessment and then social care input.

For those ambulance people who want to learn a new tool - thank the EMS Garage in an upcoming podcast for highlighting the PEAT scale. (I would have scored this patient as a 21 - referral for assistance).