Rants

Dear Asshole I realize how fun it is to have new toys, and how much you must enjoy having the knowledge that your collection of illegal pornography or Calgary Flames bobbleheads is now safe from the roving street gangs that frequent this part of Abbotsford. I too have had new toys, both electronic and not, […]

Ok, so it’s the second intermission and the ‘nucks are whoopin’ Calgary by 4-2…. it’s all good. Firefly finds a new show on (go figure) fox called The Swan. The premise, as far as I can tell, is to take two (or there might be more, but this show has only shown two so far)

Another night working on the dreaded ASP project, another bitch about some Microsoft UI user-abusivness. Dear access designers, in order to further piss Alan off with the next release of MS Access, please ensure the following stupid bugs and bad UI remain: Not putting somewhere to save password when connecting to an SQL server via

On the very day that Dana suggested it, February 18th 2004, I went ahead and ordered the Microsoft Windows Update CD. It allowed 2-4 weeks delivery which I thought wasn’t the best as far as getting updates out to the people, but was better than the 6-8 weeks that most places will give you. And

For whatever reason I was going to download Windows Services for UNIX 3.5 to see if the ability to mount remote NFS shares sucked less than the last time I tried. Why does it want me to register? More to the point, why does it make me login to passport, then register? I know they

If I write the following code in the vbscript language (and I use that term lightly): <%=FirstName%> <%=LastName%> It should do what? Well, I have the command to print the variable “Firstname”, then a space, and then the command to print the variable “LastName”, so logically, you would think that it would…. print the variable

Saw that Scoble had put up a link to his brother’s experience with Microsoft support. I had an experience a while back that I never wrote about, and I figure now is as good a time as any. This happened around the time that Microsoft was changing over their Instant Messaging protocol to cut out

A few days ago a computer showed up in the front hall. Firefly had brought it home from her brothers ex (who lives in her parents basement… long story), who had begged her to bring it to me to clean off a virus. I of course, let it sit there. Last night I decided I

When in Microsoft Word I select some text and then select a style format, I’d really appreciate it if it actually applied the style. It seems to think that changing the font information to “strong+Arial”, which does indeed match the style I’m trying to apply), but doesn’t actually put the style name in the style

Raymond asked Why 16-bit DOS and Windows are still with us, and Mike answered. This is something I’ve thought about a bit lately, in a way anyway. Both dana and I agree that the time to break backwards compatibility is now (I still claim that I was the first to say it 🙂