Seriously, who the fuck at Microsoft thought the backspace key should have the dual purposes of erasing the character immediately preceding the cursor and taking you back a page. If you arrive on a page that requires substantial form input and happens to be dynamically generated like, say, nearly every Web page with forms [...]
The current economic climate in the U.S. is causing downsizing of customer options in leiu of price increases. Recently, Subway nuked the small drink size option. Panera no longer allows a half sandwich order. It’s a defacto price increase. Store hours are among the casualties, too.
I wander into my local RadioShack for a simple RCA to S-Video adapter (or SVHS). After looking around, I ask the lady and she finds one for me. It looks unimpressive enough. I ponder a cable to plugin to it, since the original one being replaced was male to female and this [...]
What a perfect marriage. I never liked CrapUSA. It seems TigerDirect has bought them out, and now I am getting weekly spam about the CrapUSA store re-openings. I honestly don’t care. I unsubscribed — supposedly — after receiving the second email about them, but today I have yet another. Supposedly [...]
I was flipping through craigslist today and came cross a job posting for Web Freaks worthy of a ticket to planet clue. Let’s take a trip down the rabbit hole.
We are seeking a highly motivated Level 3 (Highest Level) Linux System Administrator to
maintain and administer approximately 500 LINUX servers in a Kissimmee, FL based [...]
Today I received my third email from someone claiming to be a Daniel Suarte, writing about filing open IT positions. However, I’ve never heard of this person before and I have no company or positions to fill. Clearly, this lamer is a spammer. He’s posting from a gmail account Daniel.Suarte@gmail.com. The [...]
Damn. I’ve never quite had such a worthless experience with a company before. I shall attempt to explain. I signed up for a Citi Preferred Rewards card last year. When I called to activate the card, some dude from India harasssed me continuously about their credit production plan. But, I [...]
Okay. Enough. I’ve been using Firefox since before the 1.0 release came out. I enjoyed version 0.8, even if it crashed a little. It was light weight and fast. Browsing was fun and fully featured again. KHTML wasn’t bad, but still didn’t support enough of the Web as I [...]
I recently upgraded to Firefox 2.0.3. Previously I had been using a 1.5.x version. After discovering Firefox frequently using 100% of the CPU after using it only for a short while, I investigated further. It apparently is makes tons of gettimeofday syscalls. I stumbled upon a known issue in bugzilla. Mozilla [...]
Which isn’t to say I find Experts Exchange dot Com not to be completely worthless, rife with mostly worthless “experts” and an obscene amount of ads. Thankfully, they’ve taken the first step towards pulling the plug on their worthless site by forcing you to register to view any threads that appear in Google. [...]
I had been looking forward to the latest release in the Silent Hunter series, Wolves of the Pacific. UBISoft’s track record in the past has been very poor, but I was still somehwat hopeful SH4 would be least mildly release quality when it finally hit the stores. Sadly, such is not the case. [...]
I had no idea my blog was so popular. 100,000 page views in ten days. That’s 10,000 views a day! What kind of crack am I selling? A quick check of the logs indicates it is merely referrer spam. I’ve never seen it so bad, though. Serious brute force [...]
It seems recently AT&T changed the terms of their phone card. It now costs additional minutes to make in state long distance calls. For example, 40 minutes now costs $0.2135 a minute within the state of Florida when the refill transaction cost is included. What a scam. A friend suggested Tel3Advantage.
Update, [...]
I find myself unable to enjoy what would otherwise be a pleasant evening at Panera thanks to some tool from Envia. He’s spent the past two hours attempting to dup three teens into joining the pryamid scheme that is Vibe sales. It’s fairly disgusting. It seems to have been initiated in part [...]
Sigh. As is seemingly usual, on a clear night I lost power. DSL is apparently still up. My old APC Back UPS Pro 1100 is still running my two servers and firewall without incident after 20 minutes. My smaller UPS lost my desktop after less than ten minutes, though I had [...]