Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
Unable to assess risk part 2 – plastic pen tops
In perfect timing with my unable to assess risk series a family wants to have plastic pen tops banned because their teenage son died choking on one. Banned. Really? You want to ban something because out of the millions of plastic pen tops your child was the one unlucky one that choked on one? Insane. [...]
Unable to assess risk part 1 – Cellphones
During my life I have seen the level of fear in our society rise almost out of control. We have really lost the ability to assess risk. I’m going to attempt to realign the fears in our society back on a logical course. One of the many things that I think we should be afraid [...]
Google WiFi a failed experiment in Mountain View.
When I first moved to down town Mountain View the person at the leasing office spent about 15 minutes trying to convince me that DSL/Cable availability wasn’t an issue because Google was going to provide free internet to all of Mountain View. I tried to explain that WiFi wasn’t good enough because I routinely ssh [...]
apparently I can’t be cool without a….
….caps lock key. today is international caps lock day. i’m not going to link anywhere because i don’t want this disease to continue to spread. continuing the recent negative-nancy theme of my blog i’m voting to put a stop to this shit too. as part of my protest this blog entry will be in lower [...]
No more X Month.
Declaring a month is when a group of people/company whatever says that it’s national something month. Some are non profit ‘poetry month’, ‘violence awareness month’, and ‘breast cancer awareness month’. Others are purely profit driven. Domino’s national pizza month is a great example of this. Way to try to ride the coat tails of black [...]
Show @&!# status again!
I’m not the first person to run into this and I certainly won’t be the last. This is also already covered in: Bug #19093 I just want to say again how annoying it is that the default for show status is session instead of global. It bit me again yesterday. I ran show status and [...]
Arg@wordpress
I tried to write a post comparing different operating systems on desktop vs laptop. I also really hate starting blog posts and sentances with the word ‘I’ but I’m not backspacing this one because the keyboard delay is killing me. I’m not going to upgrade wordpress in hopes that they fixed the ‘fing delay! If [...]
AT&T Does it again..
I woke up last friday and sat down at my computer much like I do every day. Only this day was different. My DSL was dead! After a bit of diagnostic work I found that my phone line was also dead. “Diagnostic work” means pulling a phone out of the closet to see if it [...]
WordPress text area.
It always takes me a few tries to get a good flow going on a blog entry. I also _hate_ touching my mouse. In my world every time I have to move my hand over and use my mouse it’s a delay in my work. I would really like to get one of those mice [...]
Calm down Treo.
As I’m writing this my treo is mixing quite a beat. It’s not coming from it though, it’s coming through my stereo. Normally this happens only when I’m about to get a message. Tonight though it has gone on for more than a minute. The same beat over and over again. This now on top [...]