Posts for June, 2007
I phone him up at home and make him do my tech support
So one of our developers got a patch applied to his Office install that has completely taken out Office including Outlook. So he's been unable to keep up with the email flow. LAN Support has been working on it all day and have decided the only way to fix it is to wipe his machine and start over (which sadly, I believe).Being the helpful sort, I emailed him the link to Outlook Web Access.
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Posted on June 19, 2007 | 0 comments so far.
Tonight we watched the burning cars shining bright
Bizarre quote placement aside, this is possibly the most insulting headline I've seen in some time:Nine 'courageous firefighters' die in warehouse blaze
As opposed to what other kind of firefighter? That's not exactly a career for cowards.read more
Posted on June 19, 2007 | 14 comments so far.
Healthy bodies in empty minds only exist in advert time
I just sent this to Wired.com:There's a new Flash ad for AT&T and Samsung. It's such an incredible ad you can't NOT look at it. Or maybe it's because it sticks around on the page covering up half the content AND other ads (which I'm sure those other advertisers are thrilled about). It doesn't ever close. I've had this 'contact us' page open for almost 10 minutes, ad is still there. No 'close this' option. In fact, if you click the ad it STILL doesn't go away. I can't even select the 'site fix' topic for this feedback because the ad blocks it. Of course, it strikes me that if the ads prevent you from ever reading the article because you can't even see it then readership will plummet. I certainly won't bother trying to read anything else on the Wired.com site as long as that ad is there.
Advertising is now part of the internet. But if advertising makes content viewing impossible, not just inconvenient, that will be the death of ad supported content online.read more
Posted on June 12, 2007 | 3 comments so far.
I'm dying here
There was a will signing party yesterday. That's how we roll.
I put together a nice themed playlist:
I Believe I Can Fly - Me First and the Gimme Gimme's
Dead Man's Curve - Jan & Dean
Funeral In the Rain - Chris Isaak
Dead On It - Prince
Deadbeat Club - B-52's
Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo
The Old Songs - Joe Jackson
Dead Yankee Drawl - Manic Street Preachers
Funeral Pyre - The Jam
Happy Birthday - Concrete Blonde
Flying Dutchman - Tori Amos
Pennyroyal Tea - Kristin Hersh
Hold On - Tom Waits
Now I Can Die - Nina Gordon
Pit Stop - Nathanial Merriweather
Old Paul - Mc Paul Barman
Bedstuy Parade and Funderal March - Mos Def
You'll Have Time - William Shatner
How to be Dead - Snow Patrol
Little Death - +44
Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above - Cansei De Ser Sexy
I Want You So Hard - Eagles of Death Metal
Dead Flowers - Rhinocerose read more
Posted on June 11, 2007 | 0 comments so far.
One dot, that's on or off, defines what is and what is not
Just got updated info on our daughter. She is 0.296 Shaquille O'Neals tall, and weighs 16.92 cans of soda.read more
Posted on June 7, 2007 | 1 comment so far.
