Joe Healy last night apparently decided that my new nickname is crotchety bastard. Well, all I have to say to that is: "am not!" (even though my IM greeting is now "crotchety bastard".) Besides, how cute is this – our puppy cuddling with her bunny, and stuck amongst the wheels of a chair so that…
I have a problem with keyboards. I love trying new ones. Over the past year I have actually been using a Logitech one pretty consistently, but I keep trying new ones to see if I can do better. My most recent adventure is with a Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 3000. Unfortunately, I love the feel of…
Over the past few days I’ve had the pleasure of having Vista Business Professional begin acting very strangely on my system. This morning for example, it was incredibly slow. So slow that just bringing up a Save dialog box in Notepad took over 15 seconds. But when checking Task Manager, the system was pretty much…
Tech Ed this year is split into two week long sessions. If you’re down for the conference, you might be looking for something to do over the intervening weekend. Joe Healy and his gang of merry pranksters is putting together the Florida Tweener weekend, which is kind of a mix between a Code Camp and…
I just stumbled across this job posting at Coding Horror. Go read it then come back. His post very closely follows my philosophy of hiring. I didn’t know I had one until about a year ago when a former employee asked me how I hired people. After giving it some thought my answer was that…
Count to yourself: One MississippiTwo MississippiThree MississippiFour MississippiFive Mississippi That’s how long it takes for Vista to open a command prompt (cmd.exe) when linked to a shortcut key (ctrl-alt-C). Trying it with other keystrokes doesn’t change the time it takes. This is on a Thinkpad T60 with 3 gig of RAM and a dual core…
Heh. Just copying a file to a usb thumb drive…
This happened last week and I thought after all the negative blogs and podcasts Apple wouldn’t do it again. Sure enough, I found this update notice on my Vista machine: I don’t want Safari, most people on Windows don’t want Safari, and trying to trick people into installing it does not help your brand. It’s…
I’m just sitting here doing some bookkeeping and billing a customer. In order to get paid by this customer, we *must* include their full PO number on the invoice. The PO number is, get this, TWENTY SIX digits long! Even better, there are eleven zero’s in a row between what might be considered a vendor…