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It seems that hard drive quality has gone downhill significantly.  I just had a 250 meg WD2500 hard drive fail.  The drive wasn’t even used that much. It was used periodically to create Ghost images, and today, when trying to Ghost my workstation, the drive wouldn’t spin up. I remember that I’d had problems with […]

As many of you have noticed, many web pages have "in line" ads that try to look kind of like links, and are actually advertisements.  Every now and then I notice a particularly stupid in line ad, which I thought was chuckle worthy.  See the attached photo.  I don’t believe it’s actually an eBay ad, […]

Recently, Chevy has started an advertising campaign that features the fact that they have reduced the sticker prices on all of their cars.  For more information, they say, go to Edmunds.com and click on Head 2 Head.   Well, sure, why not.  I like the Edmunds site, so let’s see what’s there.  I go there […]

So, I listen to podcasts on the way to and from work, and let me tell you, nothing is more irritating that hearing some random Microsoft employee or intern start every sentence with "so".   So, if I ask an MS employee if the sky is blue, the answer will probably come back as "So…. […]

A tip sheet on overcoming procrastination…    http://www.onlineorganizing.com/ExpertAdviceToolboxTips.asp?tipsheet=20   I’ll probaby read it tomorrow…

http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jeffs/archive/2005/12/14/8546.aspx   If you work with SQL and use Group By (who doesn’t?), check out the posting.

Once again I’ve fallen into the trap of not blogging.  I find that I have 8,000 things to say, but none of them rise to the top to justify getting blogged.  That’s pretty funny to write given that I’ll put darn near anything up here!  That’s the beauty of real blogs – no editor to […]

In this office, not only do we provide free hand soap, but I personally refill the dispenser when necessary.  Truly, I am a great man…   Regardless of my greatness, today I discovered that soap appears to have a finite lifespan.  While refilling the hand pump with SoftSoap, I noticed that the jug that contained […]

Another class action lawsuit, another settlement that pretty much benefits no one but the lawyers.   Here is the salient fact: It’s alleged that NetFlix deceived people with its unlimited DVD rental claims.   As part of the settlement: The person who filed the lawsuit (class representivie) will receive: $2000. Those of us who were […]

Sunday the 16th was Bosses Day.  Who even knew there was such a thing?  Well, at least one of the guys on my team did, and they surprised me by storming my office singing some sort of Star Wars March of the Emperor thing while I was one a phone call with a vendor.   […]