Rants

There is a joke about computer programmers that goes something like this. I was thinking about why computer people, and programmers in specific, have this reputation. I would say it’s because of the simple idea of consistancy. When I was doing tech support and dealing with a QA team I spent a lot of time […]

Sometime around 1996 or 1997, after I had moved out of home I had the opportunity to get high speed internet access through telus (the bctel). After the original install speedbumps (ie: them not actually installing the hardware to get internet access), there was maybe one problem every two years, even after I moved to

Sent this off to info@jobwavebc.com after finding a nice job on their site, that I would fit quite nicely in thankyouvermuch. Hi there. I have noticed a couple of problems with the jobwave.com website. The first of all is the info@jobwave.com link at http://www.jobwavebc.com/contact.asp is broken, you’ve forgotten the mailto: part of the link.Second is

I just send this off to the wankers at Columbia House [archive.org link]: Hi there.First of all, please look in your records and change the prefix of “Alan Bailward” from “Miss” to “Mr”.Then secondly, please remove all evidence of the name alan bailward, and the address [address] from your current, past and future mailings. I

So I flick through the channels tonight and come across “Boot Camp.”. Oh. My. God. So survivor was pretty bad. It was lame, it promoted a “one winner, all others are losers” mentality, but at least it was a tiny bit, just a minute bit, original. This POS show takes the worst of survivor and

Price of gas lastwednesday: 60.9 Price of gas saturday: 56.9 (I filled up) Price of gas monday: 56.9 Price of gas tuesday morning: 56.9 (I topped up) Price of gas tuesday evening: 68.9 Does anyone else see something wrong with the above? Yes, I’ve bitched about it before, and I’ll bitch about it again. Raising

Before anything starts, today is yet another birthday. Happy Birthday Ramoth! Now, my day started almost exactly 12 hours ago, when my box booted up and there were hard drive errors. Now, it was about midnight and I was wanting to head to bed, and rebooted for some reason or other (probably a win32 game

Just a quicky before I go back to doing things here. Salespeople are idiots. I say to the dude at future shop (yea, I know, I shouldn’t have gone in the first place) “do you have any celeron coolers?” and he said yes, he did, but the ones he showed me wouldn’t work on my

A couple of rants today. First of all…. Malda comment your bloody CODE! In playing around with the slash source for getting Iambe’s comments threaded, I came along such uncommented gems as this: The threading is a whole other story. I hope I can do it without being completely insanely sql and processer intensive. Far

Result of my run today: Bugs injested: 1 But now, a minor rant: I saw a bumper sticker on the way back from my run I had to comment on. It said: The Big Bang Theory God said Bang and it happened. Now I look at it this way… from a religous point of view,