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Tuesday, November 27, 2001MicroSoft Dictionary Bugs@ 11 am | PermaLinkI really wish that Microsoft's dictionary that is is included with their products would stop spelling Photoshop with a capitalized 'S'. It's just so wrong. Even MicroSoft dropped their intercap a long time ago. Can't they update this? Anyone know where to write?
Monday, November 26, 2001More Predictions@ 03 pm | PermaLinkI Predict: Someone will invent a handheld, wireless device that will swipe a credit card and debit amounts in 10 cent increments. It will be a boon for pan handlers, once everyone stops carrying cash.
Saturday, November 24, 2001GP and Back Again@ 11 am | PermaLinkThis Thanksgiving saw me driving to Grants Pass on Wednesday night and back to Portland on Friday afternoon. A nice quick trip. I got to spend some great time with my parents and with Bo and Bob and Jan, and with TJ. My family had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner with 4 other families, a hosted dinner/potluck that goes back 20 years now. It's not as big now as it was as the Hostess put it, "Some years it's just us old geezers." In the meantime, I've got some work to do: It's Amy's Birthday! Yay! Happy Birthday, Love!
Tuesday, November 20, 2001Things someone should make@ 02 pm | PermaLinkSomeone should make a regular USB desktop keyboard that has an integrated PDA cradle. Put the PDA in, flip a switch and now you're typing on your PDA. Flip the switch again and you're typing on your machine. Someone should make a CD player that will automatically "rip and remember" every CD that is put in it. That way all the music ever played in that CD will be available. Prediction: Every CD player *will* be able to read discs full of MP3s. Two years, max, until this happens. I want a flowchart program that helps me sketch and lets me make mistakes. I shouldn't have to think things out *and then* put them into the system. The system should help me and not make it more difficult. I want my parking garage to use a debit card like those pre-paid phone cards. Drive up, slide the slip that I got when I came in, slide the pre-paid parking card, and I'm off. Olson's 1st law of technology: every player shrinks until it reaches one of two limits: The size of the medium it plays, or the size that is easy for a human to keep track of. Examples: No cell phone will shrink below the size of a keypad that is typable until voice activation is reliable. No CD Player will ever be smaller than a CD. No Cassette Player will be smaller than a cassette. No Minidisc player will be smaller than a minidisc. No MP3 player will be smaller than it's medium. Compact Flash? Multimedia Card? SD card? I would love to see a Minidisc player that simply clips onto a Minidisc. Could you do the same with a CD? I did see an MP3 player that was simply a pair of headphones. Almost small enough. Ramble, ramble...
Monday, November 19, 2001Mode Interview@ 10 am | PermaLinkNot a common place for me to read from, but there's a pre-Exciter tour interview with Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode at something called askmen.com. A number of interesting questions being asked. It's always pretty cool when you find those interviews that clear up a number of little details. I'm sure it makes for a strange interview, jumping back and forth on topics, but it clears up a lot of things like, "Why have some of the songs from the Brickhouse recording never been released?" and "What was up with the Gap commercial?".
Sunday, November 18, 2001Star Lights, Star Brights@ 01 pm | PermaLinkA lot of stars were out last night. Wonderfully beautiful. It was the Leonid show last night and since it was the night of a New Moon and it was a Saturday night, everything was aligned to go watch them, which we did, out at Rooster Rock. Heh, heh. Rooster Rock... Yeah. Ask me about that place sometime. Anyway, Amy and I watched the stars from the hood of the Honda which was warm from the drive and kept me toasty. This was all after I went to the 5th Year Party for http://www.bornmagazine.org and saw Gabe (who leads the thing), Molly, David and his friend James. The one person I really expected to see what Nick Finck, but he was there earlier than I was and had left by the time I arrived. Any why had I arrived so late? Because I'm so hopelessly devoted to Depeche Mode that I sat through 2 and a half mind-numbing hours of the MTV Europe Video Music Awards to see their performance of Never Let Me Down Again, and got it recorded to VHS. That didn't happen until 11:30pm. I walked over to the party which lasted till about 1:00am. It was pretty cool, being held in the basement of It's a Beautiful Pizza. It's was strange for me. When I first heard that BornMag was going to have a party I figured it would be in NY or DC or SF. Then it turns out to be 12 blocks from my house. Very cool. :)
Wednesday, November 14, 2001Quotes of Interest@ 06 pm | PermaLinkBryan Boyer has collected a list of Quotes from Donald Norman's The Design of Everyday Things. I have copied the list and added it to this entry. Previously, that same day...Unix Horrors@ 12 am | PermaLinkCam at Camworld posted a link to http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/8009/unix.admin.horror..html which collects a bunch of horrid stories, the sort of things that when they happen to you (And they will!) they give make a huge pit open up in your stomach and cause your throat to plummet well into the nether regions of the earth. It reminds me of the time when I was cleaning out a particular directory on one of the Sun boxes at Exact Interactive. Every time a Mac that was connected to the network deleted a file that actually resided on the Sun server, a temp file was created. These temp files never got cleaned up so I went in every few weeks and deleted them. Well what's done by hand on a regular basis is sure to fail at some point. It just so happened that one day my fingers slipped and I didn't actually get the 'ch' change directory command to take, and I was still at the root when I ended up typing "rm -r *" Oh yes. Oh no. I just typed in a command that would progressively delete every singe file and sub directory on the server. Not good. My one saving grace was the Steve had *just* inserted a CD-ROM into the machine and it ended up mounting it's un-writable self on the machine just after my command had finished wiping out the /bin directory. Suddenly my runaway command tried to delete each file on /cdrom and ended up stopping dead in its tracks. The day was saved by shear luck as Steve was able to transfer the /bin from Server-B to Server-A and no one was the wiser. Steve even kept it quiet to this day.
Tuesday, November 13, 2001Religion and Sexuality@ 01 pm | PermaLinkBo posted a message on his blog (Opens new window) which off-handedly mentioned that perhaps religion shouldn't deal with sexuality. I personally think that Religions *must* deal with sexuality because propogation of the religion nearly demands it. It's far easier for a religion to maintain it's population if the ideas and rites are passed down to as many offspring as possible. Of course there's a number of different ways to achieve this goal, but for the most part, religions require an atomic family that is stable enough to raise a child to the point where it can be indoctrinated with the religion of the family. If the family is not stable enough to start, maintain and ultimately saturate the child's mental processes, then the religion itself fights an uphill battle to maintain it's base population, to speak nothing of growing it. Any western religion that will survive must use sexuality, procreation and indoctrinization in orer to survive. And woe be the person who attempts to get in the way of this. All of the above is, of course, IMHO. Previously, that same day...Ralph Nader on Corporate Patriotism@ 12 am | PermaLinkAmy forwarded an essay by Ralph Nader regarding corporate raiding that I was afraid that was going on. I can't confirm his facts and figures, but it's consistant with other sources I've seen. Amy also said that the Common Dreams site has lots of interesting stuff, but I haven't checked it out yet myself. This is the first time I've used the Extended Entry option in GreyMatter, so let's see what happens. Looks like I needed to enable a View the whole thing link.
Monday, November 12, 2001Updates Needed@ 11 am | PermaLinkBo, and Bob and all the old BBS'ers in the Grants Pass area: This list is so very wrong when it comes to Rogue Valley area BBS's. Let's get it updated. http://bbslist.textfiles.com/503/
Friday, November 9, 2001Friday Office Humour@ 06 pm | PermaLinkDefinitions that were left out of the Dictionary: 1. Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon.
Thursday, November 8, 2001To the Rescue@ 01 pm | PermaLinkSo Amy and I had our first anniversary on Halloween. We went out to a nice dinner and had a realy nice night. Our individual days hadn't gone quite as well as one might hope, but it was as nice as it could have been considering the stress of the world at large. One of the gifts that we got was a package from my parents. Quite large, but strangely light. It contained the proper gift for the first year: Paper. Napkins and Paper Towels to be exact. (More to come later.)
Tuesday, November 6, 2001Sorry Bo@ 11 pm | PermaLinkSorry Bo, I really hate discussion forums that require a logon. Hell I just about gagged when Apple started requiring a logon for the Knowledge base. Anyway, *if* I were to post to the discussion board attached to your journal, I would say something like...
But I wouldn't post that, so forget it.
Monday, November 5, 2001Weblogs by friends@ 11 pm | PermaLinkTo Paraphrase: "I just found out today that my [friend] has been [writting a weblog] since Sept 12. -anoyed-" Come on Bo! You gotta let me know when you do these things. :) An just where is my credit for the photoshopped portrait? I believe I made that... Then again, another friend, Paul, started a weblog as well. (All links will open in a new window.) Previously, that same day...It's nice / home.net@ 09 pm | PermaLinkIt's always nice to see posts to other people's weblogs like this: http://nu-produkt.net/. Be sure to check out the alt tag as well. --- After last weekend's adventure getting my B&W G3 upgraded to MacOS 9.1, I upgraded the 6400 to it as well. Now we've got all three 'live' machines running it and pretty smoothly as well. Now that it's all in place, I've got the HP DeskJet shared off of the 6400 to both of our machines. It went pretty well. I just had to enable the USB Printer Sharing control panel on the 6400, then connect to it from each of the others. In fact I just now printed out a web receipt from the my Mac. Nice and easy. Now if I can just find that SCSI -> FireWire adapter that we bought for the scanner...
Sunday, November 4, 2001Humourous Security Alert@ 10 am | PermaLinkSubject: Security Alert We've just been notified by Security that there have been 6 suspected terrorists working out of this building. Five of the six have been apprehended: Bin Sleepin, Bin Loafin, Bin Goofin, Bin Playin, and Bin Drinkin have been taken into custody. Security has advised us that they could find no one fitting the description of the sixth cell member, Bin Workin, in our office. Security is confident that anyone who looks like he's Bin Workin will be very easy to spot. There is currently no one fitting that description. Thank you.
Saturday, November 3, 2001More Afghan Humor@ 11 am | PermaLinkHELLO MULLAH, HELLO FATAH (CAMP OSAMA) Hello Mullah, I went bombing All the Sunnis Camp looks nothing Take me home, Take me home, I hear airplanes, Sixty maidens, ( Written By Charlie Henrickson, Copyright 2001 )
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