Quote of the Day
No hot beverages will be served due to a temporary reverse osmosis problem. — Yahoo email explaning the tragic unavailability of coffee during later hours. Reverse osmosis problem? Sounds scary!
Archive of entries posted by Jeff Boulter
Being a Red Sox fan is like being in ‘an abusive relationship’
Anecdotal evidence suggests that after more than a week of nail-biting, marathon playoff action between two of the most bitter rivals in all of professional sports, millions of Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees fans may be weary and unable to focus on their jobs, relationships — or even their families. This article says …
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Quote of the Day
“Personally, I’m playing the worst baseball of my life.” — Johnny Damon of the Boston Red Sox regarding his poor post-season performance, batting .083
MSNBC Rips Off Yahoo! News
MSNBC added RSS feeds today, following the long lead of Yahoo! News. Far from innovating, they actually copied much of the text from Yahoo’s RSS page. Here’s one example from each page, but look at each page yourself to see ALL the similarities: Yahoo MSNBC What are the terms of use? The feeds are provided …
Honey, it’s for you… it’s Arnold
The Governerator gave me a ringy-dingy today, just as he’s in a habit to do every one in a while. It’s nice to hear from him – really. I know he’s busy, but really appreciate it when he takes the time to stay in touch with me. Unfortunately I wasn’t home, so we didn’t get …
It’s going to be a long week
It’s only Tuesday night and I’m already feeling nauseous, edgy, emotionally drained, and fighting a sleep deficit. They were one run away. The anxiety begins again tomorrow at 5:05 PT. It’s definitely going to be a long week.
Switched to WordPress
Well, this page looks a bit different now and that’s a good thing. I switched from Movable Type to WordPress. I switched mostly because I was losing the war on comment spam and WordPress looked cool. I liked the ability to hack on PHP to make it do what I want. I’ve been impressed with …
World’s Stupidest Changelog
From the Garmin MapSource Software Update page: Changes made from version 6.1 to 6.3: * Changed software version number from 6.1 to 6.3. * Fixed issue with searching in multi-product families where a map from the wrong product could be shown behind the search result. * Fixed some alignment issues in the Japanese and Korean …
I’m #10
As of this weekend, I broke into the top 10 Geocachers in the Bay Area based on number of cache finds. I don’t think it’s really about how many caches you’ve found, but I like the concept of ‘collecting’ things. I doubt I’ll ever get higher than #10 as the people above me are all …
An Exciting Weekend for Baseball
The Yankees clinched their 7th consecutive division title today. Ho hum. The real excitement is coming in the other divisons. Oakland and Anaheim are TIED for the American League West title. Guess who they’re playing this weekend? Each other. Anne is going with a friend to Friday night’s game. It’s a three game series, so …