Rants

My latest MS piss off is this. I’m using Frontpage from the latest version of Microsoft Office for my work on the VB/ASP project. It’s actually quite nice in some ways. The biggest one is that when you save a file, the page doesn’t jump around randomly leaving the page positioned with the line your […]

Why can’t Windows kill an application when I tell it too? I have a bug right now that makes the Palm Desktop start allocating memory like nuts until I kill it. The above screenshot is after the app (or dumprep.exe, which could be at fault as well) finally was killed. Thing is, I killed it

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

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

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

Well, yesterday was the last day that Microsoft’s “free” Instant Messanger program MSN Messanger was supposed to work with non-“approved” third party apps. IE: pay us money or spew our ads or we keep you out of our network and if you try to reverse-engineer it we’ll gang-bang you with a bunch of lawyers touting

I don’t fucking believe this shit. I wake up in the morning to find that now my blog and ufies.org are targets for comment spammers. “Spoiling it for everyone” is about what it is. This is what I got in my email, as I get a notification each time a comment is posted. So now

Since I got to the gym today and got to watch 45 minutes of the news while on the treadmill, I figured that now would be as good a time as ever to bitch about a few things. Maybe it’s just because I’m in the middle of reading Stupid White Men, but I’m feeling particularily

Still trying to get the root DNS servers to update to the new IP for ufies.org and in a fit of insanity I emailed NSI about the problem. After five email exchanges with them, I have come to the conclusion that the support staff is in fact staffed with retarted monkeys who randomly hit keys

At the gym the other day I was forced (yes, at gunpoint) to watch Josie and the Pussycats. It was like a train wreck that you can’t tear your eyes away from. Not one of those wimpy derailment train wrecks, but 18 separate high speed trains all converging on the same intersection in the middle