Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
I applied for long term disability insurance. Not because I anticipate problems, but because I don’t want Vicki and I to end up broke and homeless if I can’t work.
After review of your application, we regret to inform you that we are unable to issue a policy to you because of your longstanding history of multiple joint problems.
Because if there is one thing that would prevent me from typing all day, it’s chronic knee pain.
One of my teeth exploded this morning. I went to the dentist and they poked around, took a ton of x-rays, and scheduled me for about a bazillion appointments. They haven’t put anything on the hole, but it isn’t hurting much.
In other news, somebody from my pimp agency came by to see me, because the INS was asking for proof that I have a legal right to work in the US, so I had to show him my green card. Not sure why it didn’t take the last time I showed it to them. I was asking him about the current job market. Not that I expect anything – my contract has been extended to the end of the year, but it never hurts to keep your eyes and ears open. He said that right now, the hot technology is J2EE. I’m not entirely sure how J2EE differs from all the Java Swing and RDBMS stuff I’ve been doing is, but I suppose I should do some research and become buzzword compliant.
Which is too bad, because in aid of my desire to get some more experience with AJAX I was planning to teach myself more Javascript and maybe Ruby on Rails. There just isn’t enough time, nor enough room in my head.
I’ve been waiting for months for good weather so I can go out and get re-acquainted with the sky. It had gotten to the point where I was resolved to blow off work on the first sunny day. But wouldn’t you know, today was a sunny day, but I had an important meeting at 10:00am, another one at 1:00pm, and a doctor’s appointment at 3:30pm. Didn’t leave much of a gap for getting out to fly, especially considering the time it takes to get a plane ready before and put it away afterwards. Even after the doctor’s appointment, there isn’t much time before the sun goes down, so I went to Best Buy to get my XM radio and iPod adaptor installed.
Tomorrow is supposed to be sunny as well, but there is supposed to be a strong windshear at 2,000 feet. (I think that’s what Canadian weather briefers refer to that as a low level jet.) That can mean difficult landings and lots of turbulence. Not ideal conditions for a fun flight. But we’ll see.
Last night I wanted to install Acrobat Reader 7 on my laptop. Normally installing a program in Mac OS X is just a matter of downloading a .dmg (Disk Image) file, opening it, and dragging the application out of there to the Applications folder. Sometimes the .dmg has a package installer in it. So I wasn’t too surprised when I found that the .dmg file I’d downloaded from Adobe had a package installer in it. But when I ran the package installer, it didn’t just copy some files from within itself to places on the destination drive. Oh no, that would be too normal. Instead, the package installer fired up a Adobe download tool that downloaded another freaking .dmg file! And that .dmg file had a package installer that actually installed the Acrobat Reader.
Can somebody please explain why they wouldn’t just let you download the Acrobat Reader installer package, instead of making you download an installer installer?
Rone, you want to comment?
The problem described in Rants and Revelations : Oh, buggeration! has been fixed. It was a simple matter of some bad DOM programming – the way I was turning on and off the divs to show various parts of the refresh screen, specifically to show the “You’re done” part, was incorrect. It’s unfortunate that the way I was doing it before worked on Firefox and Safari, otherwise I wouldn’t have assumed it was correct.
In case anybody cares, I had
div.setAttribute(“style”, “display:none”);
where I should have had
div.style.display = “none”;
which of course makes a lot more sense and is a lot cleaner if I ever put a style sheet on these things.