Since I was unable to play in the band because of my back problems, I’ve been killing my time with this. Still not as good as the real thing, but a fun substitute while I’m stuck here on the couch.
130-pound woman gives birth to 14-pound baby
Good lord that’s a big kid. I remember Hannah weighed nearly 8 pounds, but had a head as big as a 12 pounder that was born 15 minutes earlier.
Random Fact for the Day
One out of three women over the age of 45 pee when they sneeze. Just in case you needed to know.
How to pay your power bill
Throw a fit, go to power company, strip naked, wash, rinse, repeat.
Why do I keep linking to Ask Yahoo questions?
I have no idea. I’m cleaning out my links folder, leave me alone.
Visit Jack tomorrow and raise money for charity
Jack is planning on giving a $1 to charity tomorrow for every hit he gets on his site. His goal is to raise $1,000 for charities that fight hunger in Oregon. He calls it his Buck-a-Hit day.
Your Word documents show everything
This Woody’s Office Watch column talks about a feature that’s slowly going to bite Microsoft in the butt if they keep using it: Word’s habit of keeping around revision and properties data in its documents. And it’s especially a problem if you post that document online, and we can find out a lot about Microsoft employees this way:
For example, there’s a document on Windows 2003 Server Virtualization at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/docs/virtualization.doc . It was written and edited by “Judith Bloch (Independent Contractor)”.
She sent it out for review in an email message with the subject line “VM release anticipated to today at noon — press release link needed for Microsoft.com product page”.
The template Judith used was located at P\\online\omvss\Shadow\Windows\
WNETServer\templates\WindowsServer2003Template.dot. (Remember six months ago when we had such a brouhaha about how difficult it would be to discover the names and precise locations of templates and documents?)
Ah, that’s not all. There was a fellow named Alfredo Pizzirani, involved in the reviews. Michael Kessler, Jane Dow and someone named seaton also made changes to the document. At least one of the pictures in the document was created in Adobe Photoshop.
I sure hope MS has its Photoshop licenses up to date.
They even site examples of independent studies that were, in fact, sent from the Microsoft offices. The article linked above cites a pile more examples.
Turn of the revision tracking feature, folks, unless you need it. And if you do, fine, but don’t post the docs online. If you do, convert them to PDFs first.
Super Mario Brothers 3 — in 11 minutes
(I’m finally getting around to posting this now that a good mirror is available — if the mirror goes down, e-mail me and I’ll post the video here.)
My favorite game of the NES era was Super Mario Brothers 3. A great game that’s still quite popular. I’ve finished it numerous times, but I can’t say that I’ve ever done it quite like this guy, who not only finished it in 11 minutes, but did it with some fancy footwork as well. Nicely done.