Monthly ArchiveOctober 2006
On the Web 27 Oct 2006 07:04 am
Data Mining Gone Awry
When Amazon posts their recommendations for what you wight want to buy, usually they are spot on. This time, I don’t get the connection:
My Life & Uncategorized 15 Oct 2006 11:02 pm
I Miss Instant Messaging
I miss the corporate instant messaging that we had access to at my previous job. Like this little gem with my manager:
(16:13:38) Cindy: still trying to figure out [your project's] org charts here!
(16:20:54) Randy: yeah, me too. let me know if they start making sense
(16:21:07) Randy: cause right after that, the dead relatives start beckoning
(16:21:09) Cindy: I may not live that long
(16:21:25) Cindy: I see we are thinking along the same lines here!
Well Said 11 Oct 2006 11:15 pm
Bad Answers to a Horrible Question
What do a fat lady and a brick have in common?
- They tend to hurt people if dropped from tall heights. (Jeremy)
- They both have holes, but not everyone wants to stick it to them. (John)
- It’s just a matter of time before a mexican lays one… (Brian)
- They’re both measured in tons! (Josh)
- If you lay them right, they never move afterwards…
- Some people say if you see brick on a house the inside may look real nice. They also say if you see a fat girl at a party her friends may look real nice too. (David)
Rants 11 Oct 2006 11:14 pm
Out of the Office
Advice for my former dentist: If your whole office take a lunch break every day, and will not be answering the phones, put it on your answering machine message!
My Life 07 Oct 2006 04:46 am
The Meaning of Off
My boss sent out an email letting us know hat he will be on vacation (Paid Time Off) this next week:
I’m going to be on PTO from Tuesday 10 October 2006 through Friday 13 October 2006, inclusive. However, I’ll be in town and I will be making occasional cameo appearances into the office. Feel free to call me on my cellphone, and as needed I can come in for meetings or participate in teleconferences. I’ll have my computer with me for e-mail as well.
I think that he has a slightly different version of what vacation means than I do.
Well Said 01 Oct 2006 10:30 pm
You Know You’re From Louisville…
I got this list of how you know you’re from Louisville way back in December of 2004. Might as well publish it now, since most of it is true:
- Your international airport has only one passenger flight that actually leaves the 48 contiguous states
- The in-state sports rivalry is paid more attention to than the national championship
- You live in an area that occasionally gets considerable snowfalls, floods, and tornadoes… but have no capacity to deal with any of the above
- You pronounce the name of your city different than anyone else you’ve heard
- You think the rest of the people in Kentucky sound like hicks
- When you think “Kentucky” you don’t automatically think horse racing or fried chicken
- You ask your doctor for an allergy cure and he tells you to move
- You’ve shoveled 10+ inches of snow and worn shorts in the same week
- When people ask what school you went to, they don’t mean Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, or Harvard; they mean St. X, Trinity, Male, Sacred Heart or Assumption
- You know what the “Bambi Walk” is
- You’ll always call Fourth Street Live the Galleria
- Your last ten vacations were to Destin with at least five other families from Louisville who you already see on a weekly basis
- You make an emergency run to Kroger for bread and milk at the first sighting of a snowflake
- You’ve lived here for years, yet somehow you get hopelessly lost each time you attempt a shortcut through Cherokee Park
- You’re convinced turn signals are useless options on a vehicle
- You hold up traffic to let a motorist you don’t know into your lane
- You give directions based on landmarks that no longer exist or street names that have changed, but your directions never confuse any of the other Louisvillians;
- You have never been to the Derby, but wouldn’t miss the Oaks
- You call in sick to attend the Oaks and spot your boss&em;who also called in sick&em;at the next betting window;
- You introduced your friends to mint juleps in college only until you found yourself the only one not passed out at the party
- You think all the “REAL HICKS” live in New Albany
- You think the only thing southern Indiana is good for is buying pumpkins
- When introduced to another life long Louisvillian, you spend the first part of the conversation finding out how you are connected. it’s never as many as six degrees of separation-usually three will do
- You think a pervert is someone who would rather have sex than watch basketball;
- You’ve built a shrine to Rick Pitino in your basement
- You can read about Rick Pitino in at least three different sections of your newspaper
- You think the rest of the world knows what “Benedictine Spread” is
- You think the rest of the world knows what a “Hot Brown” is
- You have never eaten fish that wasn’t fried
- You think the whole world puts spaghetti in chili
- You want another bridge built over the Ohio River, just so long as it doesn’t cut through your neighborhood
- You’ve experienced a salt storm after a two inch snowfall
Uncategorized 01 Oct 2006 07:07 pm
From MovableType to WordPress
Through a few hours of work this weekend, I transferred the site to WordPress from MovableType. It’s not perfect (not that it was before I started the transformation), but hopefully it will be better.
Good Points:
- Integration with TextMate blogging bundle (since I could not make the
- Initial install (and upgrades) are supported in a one click process by DreamHost
- The management UI is laid out much better (possibly because only one weblog is supported)
- Plugins for almost everything
Bad Points:
- Multiple Installations–one for each blog that I am running
- The management UI is not as refined
- Uploads of pictures are much harder (and I will probably end up writing a tool on my end to make them happen).
- A good preview mode is lacking.
I’ll probably have more to say as I get into it a bit more. Let me know what you think.