Following up on my post about “The best worst day ever“, a few people were curious what the meeting was about that changed the course of the day. I can now say that the meeting was with my current boss (as of a few months ago), my previous boss, and their boss. It turns out …
My parents, sister and her husband got me a cool gadget for my birthday – a Slingbox. The slingbox is basically a cable TV to streaming internet video converter. You hook it up to your cable TV connection and your home network. Then from any other computer in your network or even from the internet …
I was reading something from a blogger just now about them starting a big new job. Some slightly clipped excerpts: It starts off with “Hi, everyone! Okay, I’ve been waiting to exhale for some time now…and I finally have!!! Last night was my one week anniversary…and the good news is, I’m still employed! (I think)” …
Today was a horrible day. It was also the greatest day I’ve had in a long time. The first thing I did when I got into work is start writing a post-mortem report for a outage yesterday – always a great way to start a day. While I was writing it, a different outage occurred. …
1. Popup ads. I’m paying $15 a month. Why should I be subjected to pop-up ads? They seem to be specifically designed to work around popup blockers. 2. The same Tom Petty ad over and over again during commercial breaks. It’s driving me crazy to hear the same clip 20 times per game. 3. Video …
For 4 years I’ve been getting these stupid advertisements from PennySaver and ShopWise every week. I’ve never looked at them. They simply create work for me, fishing them out of the mail, sorting through them, and finally recycling them. Today I finally decided to get rid of them. To kill PennySaver: call 1 (800) 422-4116 …
Most cameras sold today have some sort of movie mode. They take decent movies with sound, but what about if you had the camera turned on its side while you took the movie? None of the programs I’ve see that handle photos will rotate movies like they rotate photos. I was trying to show my …
Last weekend we were lazy, settling back in after vacation. Our goal was to do something more active this weekend. After getting up a little late, we looked for a place to hike that we haven’t been to before. Our answer: Mt. Diablo. When you drive around the Bay Area on a clear day you …
Last week I was on vacation this week at my parents’ lake house in New Hampshire. Since I was a kid, a favorite evening pastime has been to catch turtles. Around dinner time, scores of cute little painted turtles (about 6″ long) would pass by, poking their heads up out of the water ever so …
“If you are what you eat, my cat is made entirely of cat food.” “Even in a big pile of crap, you can often find some corn.” “2GB is the modern equivalent of a 1.44MB floppy disk.” “What’s another word for 4 product managers?” “An engineer.” (I kid, really 🙂 )