Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
Since I cut off comments on old entries (as I discussed in Rants and Revelations: In other news…), the number of comment spams has gone down from one or two a day to only one comment spam in 12 days.
I think I’m going to shove that command into a daily cron job.
Take that, you spamming bastards!
Are the basic concepts of boolean logic that foreign to people? And I’m not just talking about normal people – I’m talking about computer programmers, managers of computer programmers (former programmers themselves), and quality assurance testers.
Continue reading “I’m losing it”
Today I had to make yet another concession to advanced age – I’m getting reading glasses. Actually, the optometrist came up with the same prescription that he came up with last time, but last time he basically said “You can take them or leave them”, and this time he gave a harder sell. Of course, having just spent half an hour playing Toucan on my Palm Tungsten in his waiting room, my eyes were a little stressed, so it wasn’t that hard to sell me.
Continue reading “Bait and Switch”
As if I didn’t have enough reasons already. One of the best things about having a TiVo is that I can record the live Tour de France stages and watch them when I get home, instead of the half-hour summaries that I sometimes got to see back in the years BT (Before TiVo).
Continue reading “Yet another reason to HATE Time Warner”
As seen in simonb: From the latest personality quiz:
You are an SEDF–Sober Emotional Destructive Follower. This makes you an evil genius. You are extremely focused and difficult to distract from your tasks. With luck, you have learned to channel your energies into improving your intellect, rather than destroying the weak and unsuspecting.
Your friends may find you remote and a hard nut to crack. Few of your peers know you very well–even those you have known a long time–because you have expert control of the face you put forth to the world. You prefer to observe, calculate, discern and decide. Your decisions are final, and your desire to be right is impenetrable.
You are not to be messed with. You may explode.
Except for the bit about exploding, I don’t see it myself.