Some random thoughts to round out your week…
- I’ve known about Object Desktop for quite some time (hey, I used to use it on OS/2!), but I had no idea about Hoverdesk. Let’s just say, I’ve finally made my Windows desktop pretty and productive, all at the same time!
- I picked up Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast this afternoon, but I can’t play it until tonight. ARGH!
- Who would even think of doing something like this? Well, I guess someone did, obviously…
- If I go see LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring again tonight, just to see the special 4 minute preview of LOTR: The Two Towers, it will be my eighth time seeing it in the theatres (but fortunatly, only my first time paying non-matinee prices).
- After having to just cut and paste "eighth" and "matinee" into Word to spell check them, I just realized how convenient (if not necessary) it would be to write a spell-checker into my weblog. Even more so now that I just had to do the same thing with "convenient".
- And finally, yet another Dilbert comic from my day-by-day calendar. This one pretty much describes the process I deal with every day at my job.
I wonder how many of these Dilbert comics I can scan and post before I get a cease-and-desist letter from Scott Adams…
Have a great Easter, or Passover, or just a plain weekend, depending on your particular faith (or lack thereof).
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One of my favorite Dilbert comics came up today on my day-by-day calendar. I thought I’d share it…
Well, today’s my 26th birthday. Typically, it’s one of the worst days of the year for me, but today hasn’t been too bad yet. I don’t like to make a big deal out of my birthday, since I hate being the center of attention. So my best birthdays are when nobody says anything (except my family). However, last Friday, my wife threw a surprise party for me, which was quite fun. It was small, with about 10 of my close friends present, which was probably why I didn’t really freak out.
Tonight, we do the traditional dinner at my parents house. Hopefully, the day will continue to be low-key, and thus, enjoyable.
Kiersten and I saw Showtime this afternoon. Not a bad movie, but it seemed to lack direction. It sort of jumped all over the place, trying to be a comedy, a buddy-cop movie spoof, and a serious cop movie. Overall, it was fairly entertaining, especially when Deniro and Murphy were on the screen at the same time. If you’re looking for a decent afternoon chuckle (NPI), check it out, as long as you’re paying the matinee price.
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I just got back from seeing Nelly Furtado tonight at the 9:30 Club, and it was awsome. She’s such a great artist, with talent just spewing from everything she does. On stage, it’s obvious she loves what she’s doing. Her interaction with the crowd was playful, fun, and genuine. Towards the end, she did a short little old school hip-hop melody, with little bits of Bell Biv Devoe, LL Cool J, and Criss Cross, among others. Very fun stuff. If you ever get a chance to see her live, go for it, I guarantee you’ll enjoy it.
Wow, it’s 2am. I’d better go to bed…
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After putting up with far too many security vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, this most recent “gem” has finally pushed me over the edge. I’m no longer using IE anytime I’m in Windows, which is most of my time infront of a computer thanks to my job. The funny thing is, Microsoft isn’t even informing their users of this problem, because there’s nothing they can do about it yet. Just issue yet another security patch 2 months after the vulnerability is made public. They haven’t even patched SNMP yet.
Makes me wonder if the Giant Invisible Pink Bunny is doing his job.
After testing a recent milestone of Mozilla, I’ve decided to make it my browser of choice in Windows. The quick launch feature makes it startup just as quick as IE, it’s quite pretty, and renders pages perfectly. Plus, it’s compatible with all of Netscapes plugins. Just export your IE favorites, import them into Mozilla, and go. And say goodbye to all of IE’s inherent security flaws. Now, let’s just hope nobody root’s Mozilla, and makes me eat my words…
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Okay, maybe not the devil, but I spent two nights trying to figure out why my Debian box kept locking hard with a 2.4.17 kernel. Turns out, the PCMCIA support in that kernel just wasn’t up to snuff. It’s funny, because it seemed to work just fine, it initialzed the PCI-to-PCMCIA bridge just fine, but would hard freeze the entire machine right before a login prompt. Removing the kernel PCMCIA support and compiling a custom pcmcia-cs package solved it right quick. Then, however, Debian’s DHCP client didn’t like something, so I had to grab a copy of pump, and now I’m surfing happy with my wireless network.
A word to the wise, avoid the 2.4 series PCMCIA kernel support…