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Chrome's EULA

Published Thu, Sep 4 2008 11:32 | William

Yah, I'm probably like the 10 trillionth person to post about it, but until now I hadn't really had a chance to look at it. This morning Gizmodo had a piece on it which definitely makes you shake your head thinking WTF. However like most things...

Filed under: Life in General, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Chrome

"I don't know" is an answer we should hear more often

Published Fri, Dec 21 2007 2:25 | William

We've all heard the adage "It's better to remain silent and be thought of as dumb than to speak and remove all doubt." While this is certainly good advice, I don't think it's entirely correct. Let me digress for a moment... Tonight...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Business Travel Sucks

Published Thu, Dec 13 2007 1:09 | William

I don't remember the details exactly, but at some point in my very early childhood, me and the folks were flying to Pittsburgh for the holidays. I remember pop being really adamant about "flying 1st class so we don't have to put up with all...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling, Not Safe for Work

Calling People "Resources" doesn't make you cool

Published Wed, Dec 5 2007 14:09 | William

I know I huff and puff about this a lot, but it drives me insane. Recently, in the ADO.NET NG, a recruiter posted the following. As annoying as it is to have recruiters post in public newsgroups, do they have to talk like such tools? Moreover, I understand...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Fighting the Bull

Published Fri, Sep 7 2007 10:15 | William

A few years ago, I read a truly excellent book called Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guide . I really liked it b/c I was working at a place with a whole lot of people who were really into talking in business speak and thought...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling, Cool Stuff

Impostors and phonies getting as bad as spammers

Published Tue, Sep 4 2007 3:44 | William

The community server panel , like all mainstream blog engines, has a feature that allows you to approve comments. You can create word lists to automatically filter comments in an effort to eliminate spam. You can search your comments marked spam and delete...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

JesOS (TM) The First True Christian (TM) Operating System

Published Tue, Sep 4 2007 3:09 | William

I'm probably going to hell for even reading this, let alone posting a link to it. Atheists/Agnostics and Christians that can laugh at some of the less desirable aspects of their faith will get a good chuckle out of it. If you are of the persuasion...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Mindless Babbling

Man bites dog

Published Mon, Sep 3 2007 18:16 | William

A few of these clips are definitely NSFW b/c of the language. In fact, more than a few are. But if you look at some of Jimmy Justice's video , you'll probably laugh your butt off. Basically, he's a citizen vigilante who goes around and photographs...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Mindless Babbling, Not Safe for Work

Passenger's bill of duties

Published Thu, Aug 9 2007 10:39 | William

Athough it's been relatively slow in the past few months, I typically have to engage in a good bit of air travel and it seems that many developers/consultants I know are in the same boat.. TSA and similar concerns have made air travel more frustrating...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Pimpology vs Harry Potter

Published Sat, Jul 21 2007 4:44 | William

On Fridays, Kim and I typically go to P.F. Changs for dinner and then go to Barnes and Noble to and go book shopping. Tonight everything was going well, and after dinner we walked across the street to B & N. At some point, I started having flashbacks...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Books, Mindless Babbling

The coolest campaign ad ever

Published Tue, Mar 6 2007 2:11 | William

Ok, so it's probably not real and it's been done before. But it's still really *** cool

Filed under: News, Life in General, Mindless Babbling

Programmers do actually make suckier interfaces than other people

Published Mon, Feb 5 2007 1:56 | William

Aaron's post asserts that programmers aren't to blame for crappy UIs and I'm not sure he's right about that point. As a programmer and software user, I have to say that most of the truly terrible user interfaces I've seen in my life were not the result...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Mindless Babbling

I guess they send the spam for a reason

Published Mon, Feb 5 2007 1:34 | William

I guess I've been on the internet so long it's hard to remember when I got my first spam email. In fact, I honestly don't have an inkling about the details of the first spam message I got. But I do know that I haven't once seriously considered responding...

Filed under: Life in General, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

Lunch with Wally

Published Fri, Feb 2 2007 19:38 | William

I had the pleasure of eating lunch today with Pat Piccollo, Zach Moore , John Croft and none other than Wally I need more Cowbell McClure. I actually Co-Authored Professional ADO.NET 2.0 with Wally and John but never got to meet John until today. Wally...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

The AngryPharmacist and the Drug Monkey

Published Sun, Jan 28 2007 22:07 | William

Every day we go about out lives and we interact with people who we probably don't even think twice about. Many of us interact with pharmacists and never think twice about it, or what they think of us. I know mr 375lb bench press aka 'the lower cased one...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

The utter lameness of UPS

Published Tue, Jan 16 2007 0:50 | William

As most of you probably know, I'm a little strange by most standards. I only leave my house b/c I'm forced to make a living which requires me to. Other than that, I'd probably never leave other than to go to the bookstore. So I shop online for everything...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Random Thoughts

Published Wed, Jan 3 2007 23:52 | William

If you're miserable, making other people miserable won't bring you happiness. The dude who said, "You can have it good, fast or cheap, pick two" knew his stuff. If you use the phrase "I'm confused" more than once a day, and/or you use it as a question...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Is this a joke?

Published Sun, Nov 5 2006 20:19 | William

I got the following phishing/spam yesterday and didn't think much about it. Dear Greater Atlantic Bank Cardholder, As part of our security measures, we regularly screen activity in the Greater Atlantic Bank system. We recently contacted you after...

Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling

Wanna bet this is a PUBLIC School?

Published Sun, Jun 18 2006 0:13 | William

I know grade competition is mean and lots of kids get their precious self esteem hurt, but this this is ridiculous . One of the posters mentions how this same crap is going on with Soccer - where every kid gets to play. Back when I was born, I don't remember...

Filed under: Life in General, Mindless Babbling

In Atlanta for the Weekend

Published Sat, Jun 10 2006 22:34 | William

Decided to take a littlle break from the fast paced life in Augusta, GA and head over to Atlanta. Made it here in record time, no wrecks along the way, no traffic, nothing - just a pleasant drive on a beautiful day. I have enough Starwood points accumulated...

Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling