I bought a cheap pair of glasses when my last pair broke because I needed new glasses ASAP, but I wanted to look for a pair that really suited me. See, when you’re buying eyeglasses because you actually need them and not for fashion reasons, you walk into one of several eyeglass stores and you’re [...]
Filed under: business, rants on August 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Determining whether or not I have “grown up” using a random blog post from some site I’ve never heard of which apparently caters to women sounds like a reasonable enough course of action, right? Especially when it amounts to an e-mail friendly list of 25 items in the “you might be a redneck if” format.
Out [...]
Filed under: humor, rants on June 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
My first inclination upon seeing a process whose description is ##Id_String2.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B879762## in my list of currently running processes is to think it’s some kind of virus, spyware, or some other malevolent piece of garbage. My first inclination would be wrong.
A quick Google search found that it’s part of Apple’s Bonjour service, which gets arbitrarily installed [...]
Filed under: rants, technology on June 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was just reading about the latest demo of Google’s Android mobile operating system. The Android Community site got an exclusive live preview of the latest version, and posted plenty of pictures and video, most importantly, this:
In a nut-shell, this system is already looking like it can do whatever the snazzy iPhone can dish out, [...]
Filed under: business, rants, technology on May 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
Here is a dialog box I’m often greeted with in Adobe Dreamweaver while working with XHTML/CSS files that have linked graphics:
[name of file] has changed on the remote server since your last get or put operation. Putting the file may overwrite changes to the file. Do you wish to put the file anyway?
In the case [...]
Filed under: rants on May 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
I have a confession: I’ve never beaten a Wii game. Despite lining up at midnight and purchasing the Wii on launch night, I have never played through to the end of a single of my Wii games. I blame Nintendo for ignoring the rules of crafting a solid entertainment experience; namely, you need to retain [...]
Filed under: rants, reviews, technology on April 11th, 2008 | No Comments »
Seriously, people are still on about this “buy no gas” nonsense? Do so many people have such a fundamental lack of understanding in economics that they actually believe that boycotting the two largest gasoline brands will force a price war that cuts the price of gas in half?
I’ve been seeing the Facebook group How to [...]
Filed under: business, rants on April 7th, 2008 | No Comments »
I think the 3D desktop concept is beginning to go too far. I was looking at this video today of the “BumpTop” 3D tablet PC type interface which mimics the way documents are “organized” in a real-world desktop. As pretty as the interface might be, it suffers from a fatal flaw: The cluttered real-life desktop [...]
Filed under: rants, technology on June 21st, 2006 | 1 Comment »
A few moments ago, I was filling out yet another pathetic chain-mail survey, but one question got to me. The question goes as follows:
30. Who is getting on your nerves right now?
Filed under: humor, rants on June 8th, 2006 | No Comments »
I wasn't around in the Sixties and Seventies, but I'm pretty sure that mainstream recording artists and their fans weren't too terribly preoccupied with reliving (and rehashing) music from the Fourties or Fifties. They were too busy creating a generation of groundbreaking music to worry about that. So, why, since about the time "grunge" came [...]
Filed under: music, rants on March 16th, 2006 | 1 Comment »