Archive for December, 2007

Yikes. Its Plaid Cow Pants.

Saturday, December 29th, 2007 at 07:55 | 0 comments
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When the rationale for one of your system requirements ends with “(Idea dreamed up at a workshop.)”, you know that it’s got to be a good one.

Friday, December 28th, 2007 at 07:15 | 0 comments
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If you need to call AT&T Wireless Customer Service (i.e., who you would get calling 611 from your wireless phone), you can also reach them by calling 800-331-0500. This works from any other wireless phone or landline. This is available on their website, but I couldn’t find it without resorting to Google.

Friday, December 28th, 2007 at 07:09 | 0 comments
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If 10 songs into the play list you’re still questioning why it seems all of the songs are out of the eighties–perhaps you are listening to the playlist of “Eighties Music”. (Instead of the playlist “Everything”, you thought you were listening to.)

Thursday, December 27th, 2007 at 09:49 | 0 comments
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Next year, I am totally setting Christmas lights to music. And an article from the Orlando Sentinel had an awesome quote about one of the guys that is working on these. “[He] estimates he has spent about $2,000 on his display, but he is avoiding adding the costs up for fear of angering his girlfriend.”

Awesome. [...]

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 at 22:38 | 0 comments
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Occasionally I will start a post because I have an awesome title–and then never get around to finishing it. (Like the series I started on m upgrade to Mac OSX 10.4, Tiger. Would have been useful a while back, but not as much anymore as I just upgraded to Max OSX 10.5, Leopard, and never [...]

Monday, December 24th, 2007 at 07:50 | 0 comments
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Error reporting can be one of the most difficult things bout programming software. You’re trying to tell the user that something went wonky, but not send them into an all out panic. This excellent example (of how not to do error reporting) comes from Microsoft Outlook:

The first issue with this error is that I shouldn’t [...]

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 at 07:52 | 0 comments
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From the upcoming movie Doggie Daycare comes this photo montage of How to Hug a Baby.

May you learn a valuable lesson from it. (And if you do, post a comment to let me know what it is.)

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 at 08:13 | 0 comments
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Please, after reading the following image make the silly assumption that the CD’s in your cart can be bought for $3.99, for it is incorrect.

In fact, many CD’s in your cart will be the exact same price as they were before you saw this sale bill, because that is what nice people we are.

Friday, December 21st, 2007 at 06:36 | 0 comments
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After ordering our new cell phones from Lets Talk, they sent an email which said:

If you have ordered an activated phone, please check to make sure the cell phone number assigned is local to your service area. If not, call us immediately and we’ll help you get another number.

By help they mean they [...]

Thursday, December 20th, 2007 at 07:16 | 2 comments
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