Elliott C. Back: Internet & Technology

I just got the following error from Chase Bank:

We were unable to process your change. General MQ error (2007)

On the one hand, the errors are scary. On the other hand, I’m thrilled that JP Morgan Chase Bank One and Co. are using IBM’s Websphere MQ for reliable transmission of my account information!

Science versus Faith, reformatted for vertical layout:

I wanted to feed my addiction to pistacios so I looked around for a good distributer of large amounts of them, and found Nuts Online. I was quite pleased with their service–for about $100 I ordered 25lbs of Pistachios, which arrived within two days. They arrived in a shapely box:

I quickly opened my nuts in the box:

Yes, it sure is full of luscious nuts:

This makes me want to compose a song like:

Hey girl I got somethin’ real important to give you
So just sit down and listen

[...]

Somethin’ special girl
It’s nuts in a box, those nuts in a box babe