Grumbles

Not dead yet Comments Off

But updates might get a little sparse for the next week or two while I adjust to the new job. For those of you who are local, I will be at the faire booth this weekend. (And may, in fact, be *running* the booth for a day or so… but that’s another story)

I could deal Netscape and IE getting the heave ho… Comments Off

But this? M$ is dumping support for Outlook Express. Crap, man. I actually use that. Not ’cause it rocks so much more than anything else, but cause it’s such a honking pain to import my outlook tainted mail into anything else that I’ve given up trying. And the big, bloated piece of crap that is [...]

I still think it's bullshit Comments Off

Scott Andrew has some thoughts on privacy and blogging: When most of us think of privacy and weblogs, we think of obvious things like pseudonyms and slapping password protection on a directory. I have to admit that when Joyce approached me with the idea, the first thing I though was, “oh, that’s like LiveJournal” and [...]

They couldn't hire some decent template designers? Comments Off

If this is what the soon to be horde of aol provided weblogs is going to look like, there had better be some *damm* fine content, or I’m avoiding them just on general principal. Of course, this has nothing whatsoever to do with my impending flashback of what happened when aol let it’s members loose [...]

My new T-shirt will read… Comments Off

I don’t mind that one of my duties at work is to answer the phone. It’s not exactly tough, brain intensive, or physically demanding. However – I suck at voices. As in, matching a phone voice to a name for someone I have never actually met is not a workable deal for me. So everyone [...]