I’ve always been confused by this, but this handy flowchart clears up how men and women think during arguments.
Month: August 2009
How Much Does My Data Weigh?
Contrary to popular belief, your hard drive doesn’t get heavier when you fill it up.
TIme Killer For The Weekend
I was never into those card games like Magic: The Gathering, mostly because they cost money that I didn’t have and I didn’t want to sit there and document everything and keep score. Elements is free, and the computer keeps the score for you. I still suck at it (just like I did the couple times I tried those card games in my younger years) but least I can suck without getting laughed at — at least in person.
Time Killers For The Evening
Unique ideas: This Is The Only Level (which you have to pass a zillion times in different ways) and You Only Live Once, where there are no continues.
Animated GIF Extravaganza
Animated GIFs are all the rage lately, mostly because they can get through pretty much any corporate filter. I’ve collected quite a few of them lately on my hard drive, which I’ll upload to a directory here someday, many of which I’ve found via GIFExplode’s upload directory (warning — many of them are not remotely safe for work). You can kill quite a bit of time looking at the oddball stuff in that directory.
If you haven’t heard the story about GIFExplode, it’s an interesting one.
“Full House” Would’ve Been Much More Entertaining
If there were more earthquakes…
How Do You Spend Your Day?
Is it anything like everybody else?
Fake Your Boss Into Thinking They’re Doing You Good
What started as a Dilbert cartoon has turned into a piece of code that gives you boss the illusion of managing you.
Outsourced Tech Support People Are Idiots
A co-worker was having trouble with our Toshiba laptop. She was having trouble getting her laptop on her WiFi at home, after it had worked before. Since Qwest said it wasn’t their problem, she would need to call Toshiba. It was a bit over a year old, so technically out of warranty, but she figured she’d call Toshiba anyway. She went back and forth, trying a bunch of things, following his broken-english instructions, with Toshiba even suggesting a full restore on the system which would’ve killed all here data and programs.
She brought it in to me, and sure enough, I couldn’t connect to any WiFi networks, either. It wasn’t detecting any networks, so the thing was getting disabled or something. And sure enough, the tiny little WiFi power switch next to the USB ports on this particular laptop was turned to “Off.” Flip the switch to “On”, and look at that, it magically works.
Now I didn’t expect my co-worker to see that switch (it is quite small), nor to know what it does (she does now), but why on earth didn’t the Toshiba tech suggest to look at that switch?
The Web Tries To Kill MSIE6, But Some Of Us Are Stuck With It
There’s a pretty good movement about of people that want to kill Internet Explorer 6, which I have absolutely no problem with for the most part. My problem? I run an old Citrix Metaframe 1.8 client/server network running Windows 2000 (I inherited it, I didn’t design it). Some of the Web apps my company uses or potentially might use only work in MSIE (I’m looking at you Escapia and Navis). While I can install Firefox, it doesn’t work well on our under-powered twinky terminal clients. And Microsoft has no intention of releasing IE7 or higher for Windows 2000. So my co-workers are stuck with a crappy browser.
And in this economy, as much as I’d like to, we’re not going to be able to upgrade our clients into full blown useful desktops anytime soon. So while this campaign to kill IE6 is fine and all, it sucks for me as I get folks at work who keep asking me why they’re seeing this message. And I get to tell them that there’s nothing I can do about it.
(Granted, most of the site’s that are posting that IE6 No More code are sites that my co-workers shouldn’t be visiting during office hours, but that’s another problem for another time.)