Moo! The Musings of a Plaid Cow

Funniest email exchange all week:

> > Good thinking. We just need the money to buy their flower.
> > We will get their flower.
> > 
> Just don't be an indian giver. Girls usually don't like to be
> deflowered.
>
whats an "indian giver"? and why would you deflower a girl?
what use does a guy have of a white carnation ?

At our team meeting at work last week, the team lead indicated that we have be spending money quickly:

Drunken sailor comes to mind.

So this coming week, we will only be doing the “important tasks”. So why have we been doing all of this stuff in the past that isn’t important?

Regarding the Wordpress login cookies, I agree with Mike. If I don’t log in for a while, then feel free to sign me out. Just don’t make me log in what seems like every other day.

To fix it in version 2.6.1, search wp-includes\pluggable.php for

$expiration = $expire = time() + 1209600;

and adjust the number of seconds the cookie should live for.

For the most part, Merlin Mann hits it right on the head with his list of what makes a good blog. Put I think he left out one of the most important points:

0. Good blogs allow for comments. All of us are smarter than any of us. I find that much of the value I get out of web logs comes from the comments that the user base makes regarding the article. (Not the comments agreeing or refuting the main point, but the ones that add to the discussion with their own ideas of the post.)

This is not to say that all blogs get it right–some have very useful comments (Lifehacker, Slashdot) while others could turn off the comments and not lose value (TUAW). Some are correct in leaving it to the author (Daring Fireball) while I really want to know the user comments on others (43 Folders).

My boss mentioned that “We could do it tomorrow, but I won’t be there.”

I wonder which “we” he was talking about.

As a part of our new internet filter at work, all .edu sites are being blocked because “the university environment, by its open nature, is a haven for hackers and malicious code abuse.”

Yep, that is some awesome logic.

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.

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 looked at any of my notes.)

So, here are the best titles that will never see the light of day (because I’m going though and canning the original entries):

• ¡Ay, ay, ay, mi telefono es de el diablo! — On why my Samsung phone sucks. [I upgraded to a RAZR2 V9 this weekend.]
• It Started With a Night of Drinking — How I started buying CDs again after visiting music sharing sites. [Started April 22, 2004]
• The Song Remembers When — How songs I hear on the radio can still take me back many years. [Started March 21 , 2005]
• “Trash IN” — A Fast Food Loyalty Program whereby you save (some) money by bringing in the trash from the last time that you were are at that restaurant. [Presumably to help stop littering.]

“There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokeable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.” — Mark Twain

Opinions are like @ssholes, everyone’s stinks but mine.

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