Archive for July, 2003
I have been watching all of the Last Comic Standing episodes (on NBC) and have to say that the showdown at the end of the series was a big letdown from the rest. Only Ralphie May seemed to come to win. Most of the rest I would have turned off just a couple minutes into [...]
Quite often I hear that motorcyclists don’t get respect on America’s highways. Perhaps it is because many of their bretheren don’t deserve respect on the highway. I was on my way to work today and stuck in a 6 mile backup (for an accident up the road), but the only two cyclists I saw concerned. [...]
A few weeks ago I talked about the move of the custodial staff to second shift (and the prediction that it wouldn’t take long to return to first shift with their vacuums blazing). Well, the vacuum cleaners are back. (Not all of them, but the large vaccuum cleaners are once again roaming the halls. I [...]
I have added my concept of a ring banner in the navigation bar on the main blog page. I think it looks pretty good. Please let me know what you think.
Last week we got a notice from the Facilities Organization where I work that as part of “their effort to continually increase customer satisfaction” the custodial staff would be moving to second shift (the area that is being cleaned works first shift). The reason expressed was that “many employees expressed frustration with the closure of [...]
There are sometimes when you wake up and you know it is going be a bad and it would have been better to have just stayed in bed. After starting on my way to work this morning I realized that I had worn the jeans that had a big hole in the knee. I managed [...]
Since I have been doing a good deal of editing the template files outside of iBlog (in my favorite HTML editor skEdit), I find it necessary to Reset the Preview State and Preview quite often. I shortened the cycle time on this by using iKey to set up a shortcut that chooses each menu item [...]
I got an email that the Quicken beta test will be ending at the end of the month after 2 cycles. Unfortunately this seems to be a pattern of lack of testing of that software.
It should be noted that a software restore (with the provided disks) cannot be attempted unless the hard drive is already formatted for OS9. (And I could find no way to format the hard drive after booting the restore cd. The only option was to boot the OS9 Install CD, then format the hard drive [...]
I really like my macally iKey keyboard, except that with it there is no good way to eject a cd on a newly installed operating system. Once I got booted into OSX (10.0.4) I couldn’t even find a program that would allow me to eject the CD that was in the drive. This is a [...]