I love how microsoft supplies a “Set Program Access and Defaults” to comply with their DOJ monopoly sentence (to allow you to set something other than IE as your default web browser simply and easily), but if you install their office suite, the browser is mysteriously reset back to IE! Even when you uninstall Office […]
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So I decided yesterday that to make everyone happy, and relieve myself of a payment each month, I’d give myself a big paycheck from the company account and pay off my car. I looked up the branch of Scotiabank that I was pretty sure I dealt with and called. I got a “we’re not open
Vertical Hold has a nice response to the reasons not to buy an iPod that I mentioned. Many of the responses are good and sane, which is nice. I’d still like the sub $100 iPod that Steve promised. A great quote: The idea that
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Just to be fair, in addition to me fawning over the iPod, here is a story on why not to buy one linked off of /. Some of their points are good (moving parts for something to jog with for example), and price, but they don’t seem to have a single alternative. Having a 128
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Hmm…. with SilverStr’s iTunes problems and finding this post from a self-described “.Net Guy” disliking it for it’s lack of WMA support, I’m sensing a bad iTunes vibe today. Works For Me&tm; though. I just wish it supported playing .ogg out of the box and ripping to .ogg out of the box. Course, as I’ve
I have been “reading” (listening on audiobook) Michael Crichton‘s excellent book Timeline. Read a bit more to see why I say go and read it now.
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Well, this morning’s cat dosing went better. The Kitten (who we are calling “Patches” unless we can find something better) takes hers grudgingly. Rex is not all bad anymore, it went better this morning than last morning I think. His ear drops aren’t bad, his anti-inflamatory pills can be crushed and hidden in food (chompchomp*chomp*),
If I install a new component to my OS, say, I donno, Windows Media Player, I really, honestly expect to get the latest and greatest. Instead, I get the latest release, and when I go to windows update (as that’s what you do for the 6 hours or so following any fresh Windows install), I
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Bad idea: Promising brand new powerbooks to the developers in your company for Monday and then not delivering. Worse idea: Having a employee satisfaction survey the day after. I was nice, don’t worry. I could have bitched in the “do you have adequate computer equipment to do my job” because I guess I do have
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In theory, on the truck from the Bellingham office this afternoon, arriving at 2pm. I still say I’ll believe it when I see it. Fingers crossed though. Update: Not today. Apparently they installed everything clean and one of the powerbooks has some white spots on the screen or something, and the other is crashing and
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