Archive for December 13th, 2004

Got my car back!

Monday, December 13th, 2004

After a week without it, I got my car back. This is a continuation of previous problems with oil leakage - this time they replace the engine block and the head. Major stuff. Thank God it appeared at 58K miles and not at 61K miles.

Mail filters written by idiots.

Monday, December 13th, 2004

I got an email from my Dad, and since it’s a Microsoft Turd document I tried to bounce it to my work account so that I could read it there. But it bounced:

<tomblin@foo.bar.com>: host mailgate5.foo.bar.com[192.232.121.235] said: 550
    Message refused - Banned text appeared in header or body: ’shit’ (in reply
    to end of DATA command)

I piped the message through strings to see where the banned text occurred. It was somebody’s name - “Phil Matushita”. Words fail me.

With a mark-down like this, how can you NOT afford it?

Monday, December 13th, 2004

Screen grab from a Garmin GPS dealer.

The price has been marked down from $799.99 to $799.00. Well, I couldn’t afford it before, but now…

(Note: This is not a hint. This is the not the GPS I want anybody buying me for Christmas. If I were in the market for a new GPS, it would be the Garmin 296. Thank you.)