Rants

Well, it looks like the start of the purging of the evil non-microsoft clients from the MSN Messanger network has begun. Didn’t microsoft rally a while back for instant messanger standards? Guess they figured they had enough market share that it was time to lock out everyone else. Not that I’m one for a good […]

I thought that I could be safe in my little Linux world, and not be affected by the stuff that comes out of Redmond. Sadly no, it seems that some WIndows 2000 boxes inside the work network (WTF? I thought it was all Macs and Linux?) have been infected by the latest and greatest of

I went to this page to find out who was linking directly to an image I have. After throwing a “please don’t link to my images directly” message (I had this happen before) I hit the guestbook they had to leave a message there as well. Ahhhh! My eyes! Scrolling text, backwards, forwards, sideways, changing

A quick little rant about the shit we have to put up with these days. I just want to know why it is that we/I/the consumer is always on the defense. We have to install spam filters so that we don’t get a flood of porn spam and virii every day. We have to keep

Of maybe “why does MS Word suck so much” would be better. I’m creating a bunch of stuff at work and am working off a script given to me to put in articles and activities. In one activity (for middle school age kids) it’s a mnemonics page that explains what they are and then gives

Every once and a while I check out my webstats or watch my apache logs. Just for fun…. there’s kind of a cool feeling to see when other peole are viewing your stuff (all 12 of you). I noticed (not for the first time) a couple of sites that seemed to be doing far more

Saw on slashdot that a new music store service had opened up on buymusic.com, $0.79 downloads, using Windows Media Player 9. Hey sounds good says I, so I try to go to the site and get this: Thank you for visiting BuyMusic.com. In order to take full advantage of BuyMusic.com’s offerings you must be on

When they design bathroom stalls, do they figure out the dimensions by seeing what the absolute smallest space needed by a 70lb romanian midget? I’m just wondering is all.

So I have to work with Frontpage to help pay the bills. I’m naughty, but what can you do. I’m trying to find a file within a frontpage “web” (collection of files to make up a website). This is a big site, something like 2500 files, and of course there not being access to the

UPDATE Jan 29th 2004: To all the people out there to don’t get that this is a random rant and bitch session, this is not an attack on John Walsh, a call to kill anyone, or anything like that. Take this for what you paid for it, and read it with your brain engaged, and