Moo! The Musings of a Plaid Cow

I thought it would never happen, but my puppy finally turned on on me:

At least he looks cute doing it.

It is the little things in design that seem to make the biggest difference to the end user. Today changed the permissions on a WordPress plugin so that I can not longer edit it. (The plugin is mysteriously getting deleted for some reason.) Then I notice (for the first time) that in the list of plugin no longer includes the ‘Edit’ or ‘Delete’ link for that plugin, since I can’t write to it. Small things, but good things.

I saw this headline on the news channel in the cafeteria when I went to get lunch: “Child Remains Found By Utility Worker in Plastic Bag”. This breaking news story involved a chopper looking down at a police car and people talking in the street. That is all.

Maybe they are trying to break the story of why the utility worker was in a plastic bag?

I got a notice the other day from iLounge saying there was a new reply to a post I was watching. And I though it was weird since I haven’t been reading that site since they changed the name from iPodLounge.

I turns out I would have been scared if I had remembered watching that thread–it was over five years since I had made what was the last post. (At least the new poster came back and apologized for not realizing the post was that old…)

I thought that in 2008 we were past this crap:

Some web browsers are unable to display all site information correctly. This is most common on our site for MAC users that are using Internet Explorer as their browser. Our site is designed to work best on a Windows operating system, with Internet Explorer (version 5.0 or higher). If you are using something else, all of your account information may not be displayed correctly.

Just how hard is it to design a simple web page that works on more than a single browser?

Even with some deadlines coming up at work, I am glad to have a project lead that doesn’t expect too much:

коли под наем BTW, big mistake to work on your anniversary, especially a Sunday, unless of course you would like this to be your last anniversary.

You can follow me wherever I post comments. At least here and on NSLog();. Maybe they will add more later. or maybe I will start commenting in more places.

If you have a Series 1 TiVo (like my Sony SVR-2000) that was manufactured before October 2001, you can use it without paying for service. (The “official” thread on tivocommunity.com has a good deal of information, but can be difficult to find. It took me about six months. I’m just reiterating these this information here in hopes that it can be easier for people to find in the future.)

To actually use this free service, you have to make sure that your TiVo is enabled for it. There are two method to make this happen:

• Call TiVo Customer service (877-367-8486) and indicate that you need help through internal service code 14-29-02.
• Log-on to tivocommunity.com and send a PM to TivoJerry with your TSN.

Good luck.

Recently, I have been sending quite a few posts to My City Daily. (The one from last Friday was even published today.) I like sending in comments there–it fits my style. Short, sweet and to the point. I’ve always planned on doing longer articles on this site, but they never seem to make it. After thinking through all of the things I want to write, I’ve lost the drive.

So, short it is. And if you do a Goolgle search for mycitydaily, I’m on the front page. Cool.

Now I’m just waiting on those free lunch coupons.

Response to the Consumerist post on AIG Has Already Used Up 3/4 Of $123 Billion Bailiout.

Can someone explain why this is an issue? What exactly were you expecting AIG to do with the loan? Save it for a rainy day. Its pouring buckets and if they had enough money, they wouldn’t have needed the loan to begin with.

Last week the news was reporting concern that the banks that were bailed out would just sit on the bailout money. we can’t have it both ways.