If the moral of Spiderman is, “with great power comes great responsibility”, would the moral of the X-Men be, “with great power comes great Issues and emotional baggage, the likes of which you will need a dump truck just to haul around”?

Just one of those random thoughts that pop into my head.

Scriptable imagemaps. Or, how to get multiple rollover effects with only three imagemapped graphics. I have been wanting to find a way to do this for *ages.*

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 gets a polite “may I ask who’s calling?” before I pass the call on. For most callers, this is not a problem.

But then there are the jokers. The ones who want to play a game of twenty questions. Because it is fairly unfathomable to them that I don’t know who I’m speaking with. Guys, I’ve had to bluff my way though phone conversations with friends I’ve known for ten years when the connection is spotty or the voice just isn’t popping out in my memory. Do you seriously think that your generically male middle aged voice is going to act as a serious identifier when I’ve been at this place for only two weeks? Sheesh.

But on the up side, they are charming (if grump inducing) and I think they all really do mean well. But I’m still tempted to ask them why they feel I’m getting paid to play guessing games. Maybe it’s some off kind of hazing. Or… maybe I’ll start memorizing the voices. Odder things have happened.

Today I learned that although it is possible to add memory to an iMac without an Apple tech on site, Apple in no way wants you to muck about with the innards of it’s machines and makes the process as obscure as possibe without actually welding the case shut. Took me over an hour just to get the damm thing *open*.

On the plus side, I did manage to install the memory upgrade my boss wanted. On the minus side, it turns out that the chip MacWarehouse sent us was for 128MB, half the size of the chip we actually ordered. The packing slip and order confirmation all concurred that we had been sent the size chip that had been paid for, but as far as the machine was concerned, it was a 128MB chip.

So tomorrow, I get to crack the case and go through the whole process again. Yerg. But hey - learning new stuff.

Pssst… erm, Mr. Bush? Maybe you should have tried looking here for those pesky little reasons for going to war.

Finally, an RSS aggregator that works the way I’d like it to. (Well, mostly. But it’s a beta release, after all.) Suprisingly, I don’t think I’ll be giving using a web browser anytime soon. Don’t get me wrong - newsfeeds are just about the niftyist things I’ve come across in a while, and I’m certanly having fun rolling out the feed for this site, but after a full day of getting allmost all my info via newsfeeds, I was getting overwhelmed. There was suddenly *so much* info all around me that I found it taking up all my time and then some. Maybe I miss out on posts and entries for sites that I don’t check every day in my web browser, but I can live with that.