drunkenbatman

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December 19, 2005

Slashdot has its Moments

Every now and then, someone on Slashdot actually does say something useful:

I personally look forward to the day when the GOP has something to do with, you know, conservatism again. “Spend responsibly” rolls off the tounge better than “constant wanton abuse of power”. Still, at least it was just violation of the basic agreement that forms the basis of our government and not, you know, a blowjob. Otherwise the nation might have to sit through another impeachment.

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December 17, 2005

The One Where I Get Shiny, New Hardware

I received my new laptop at long-last today. On average, Program Managers in my group can expect to get new laptops every 24 months. Last month I celebrated my two-year anniversary with Microsoft by ordering a shiny, new Sony Vaio S580. Well, truth be told, I ordered the laptop three weeks ahead of time, on October 23rd. The theory was that I would have the laptop by the time I flew off for my grand old time in Hawaii.

Of course, things being what they are, I finally received the laptop today. After weeks and weeks of back order status, FedEx not being capable of delivering the laptop to our receiving building, and our mail room promptly misplacing it I finally got to remove it from its packaging, slide the battery in, and turn it on.

initial reactions:
1. The standard battery sucks. A lot. I ordered an extended battery, but it has yet to arrive. I’m going to have to figure out these power management settings thingies.

2. Office 12 Beta 1 is phenomenally cool, but i have no idea whatsoever about how to use it. Powerpoint 12 is proving to be the bane of my existence, with its truly inscrutable text layout options. Eventually I’ll learn the Ribbon, but for the time being it’s been learning me good, instead.

3. XBrite screens are just gorgeous. G. O. R. G. E. O. U. S.

4. Windows Live Messenger Beta is nifty. Friends of mine, email me if you want an invitation to use it. On an amusing sidenote, I was sitting at Victrola earlier tonight trying to figure out why Outlook 12’s RPC over HTTP feature hated me so much (turns out I need a Hotfix) when I met another Microsoft PM whose weblog I had just started reading days earlier.

5. Having a laptop capable of running Civilization 4 is both exciting and terrifying. I will never, ever work again.

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December 15, 2005

Web 1.0!!!

There are some pictures from the recent Web 1.0 Summit in San Francisco over on Flickr.

The comments are the best part, by far. My favorite thus far: Is there still room in the “Photoshop: Page Curl Explorations” seminar?

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December 13, 2005

Alarm Clocks

There are quite a few different alarm clock software packages out there for the Mac and Windows. There are some interesting patterns that immediately present themselves. One of the most obvious is that the Windows alarm clocks out there appear to cost twice the price of most of the Mac clients.

Macintosh:
Alarm Clock Pro $15.95
PowerController $9.95
iTaf Free
iRooster (of course ;-) ) $9.95
Mac Alarm Clock $7.49
Alarm Clock SE $7.00
Awaken $8.95

Windows:
Alarm Clock Pro $15.95
Say the Time 2005 $24.95
AlarmWiz $24.95
Alarm Clock $19.95
Aquarius Soft PC Alarm Clock $19.80
Round Clock 2005 $25.00

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December 12, 2005

James Kirk

Which Fantasy/SciFi Character Are You?

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December 12, 2005

Movable Type 3.2 Can Bite Me

Without a doubt, my absolute favorite keyboard shortcut in IE 6 is Alt+D, which moves focus to the address bar. Movable Type 3.2, which I just installed, thoughtfully overrides this keyboard shortcut with its access key for Delete. Sigh. C’mon guys, you could’ve used Alt+L just as easily (and although it’s less obvious) at least it wouldn’t have conflicted with this shortcut. This is really irritating.

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December 1, 2005

test

testing testing

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December 1, 2005