Tag Archives: Personal

Gosh, Windows…! ...

So Win­dows Vista will come out (when it does) with 7 dif­fer­ent ver­sions. My first thought: “[Groan] Oh, that’ll be just great for sup­port, try­ing to fig­ure out which peo­ple are using and why ‘fea­ture X works on my other com­puter but not on this one…’.” How can Microsoft tout usabil­ity and sim­plic­ity? [...]

Forgiveness ...

The Heart of the Mat­ter “I’ve been tryin’ to get down To the heart of the mat­ter But my will gets weak And my thoughts seem to scat­ter But I think it’s about for­give­ness Even if you don’t love me anymore” Why do we under­stand these truths or feel empa­thy from the world at large when rock singers belt it out? [...]

Reflections after a week of phone support ...

I’ve heard this quote before, but it has been in my mind this last week or so since I’ve been on the phones sup­port­ing cus­tomers: “Com­puter pro­gram­ming today is a race between soft­ware engi­neers, striv­ing to build big­ger and bet­ter ‘idiot-proof’ pro­grams, and the Uni­verse, try­ing to pro­duce big­ger and bet­ter idiots. So far, the [...]

Scattered and Sundered ...

So I’ve been very busy lately, and mostly because of work. That’s a veryhref=“http://www.google.com/ig”>personalized home­page, I keep a few inter­est­ing sites’ feeds there. Makes for a nice break from the dirty innards of Microsoft Office. So I have man­aged to stay abreast of a few projects that have kept my inter­est. As usual, [...]

Do I have a non-coding life? Apparently, because I haven’t updated in a while.… ...

So I’ve been repeat­edly impressed with Google lately. I mean, many peo­ple know that “to google” has been a verb for a while, since it’s kind of the de facto way to search the Inter­net. But also, I’ve been using their email ser­vice, which is really awe­some in all respects. Turns out [...]

A week late and plenty short ...

Les­son of the week: A blog is only as good as the posts you put therein. Of course, since a blog is more than the sum of its posts, …I don’t know what that means for me, but it’s good. So Pygmy’s com­ing along. I just released the third ver­sion last week­end and am pleased [...]

The world must be ending ...

So I’ve started a weblog. Some­thing I never thought I’d do. I used to use Live­Jour­ney back before the word ‘blog’ was coined and I used Xanga to doc­u­ment my trip to Europe, but I always thought that they ended up being a bit osten­ta­tious. How­ever, lately I’ve been read­ing more than [...]
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