http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm You have got to be kidding me. They are trying to collect records of every phone call made in the United States, just in the hope of maybe data mining it into finding a terrorist? I’m not sure that innocent until proven guilty is applicable anymore. This is almost as scary as the…
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A long time ago, shortly after they first came out, Deb and I purchased a 20" iMac. We use it around the house, sometimes on my desk, sometimes on hers, and it’s always fun checking out how the other 3% lives. However, we need to box up the machine for a little while in order…
I have an HP Photosmart 7760 printer on my desk for the occasional color printout, or the even more occasional photo printout. Recently, it began printing very slowly. It was taking 15 minutes or more just to print out a test page. I spent quite a lot of time trying to troubleshoot this. I uninstalled…
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…