I was a little disturbed at the sight. My arms were side by side in my lap, and they didn’t look the same. Bilateral symmetry is something most people find attractive in a person, so you can understand my disappointment over losing a piece of mine. What on earth would make one arm more tan than the other? And then it hit me… I’ve been driving my car without the services of my air…
Alert messages cascaded through the office like dominos. First, applications that no one had heard of were causing errors and being terminated by Windows. Then certain network applications stopped working. Next, the clipboard didn’t work. Finally, we were alerted that our system detected a virus and had no cure. We were calling out the progression of system failures to one another, a kind of…
The site is running on our own server. I walk past it every time I enter my home. I give it a loving pat on the head every time I walk past. There have been no problems so far. I relish the cool factor of the whole thing – even if no one else particularly cares. One thing must change though; I’ve got to work on Cheryl. One way or another, Cheryl will embrace the home server idea. She…
I was talking with a friend of mine and somehow Microsoft became a topic of conversation. We talked about the different aspects of life that Microsoft seemed to be involving itself with: PCs, PDAs, entertainment devices, secure internet commerce, … and the list goes on. The talk took a head first dive into a deep and fertile pool of conversation when I made the comment: “It worries me…
I was driving home this evening and I passed a car with more than it’s share of post- 09/11th, flag waving bumper stickers. There was one in particular that stood out. It was the one with an eagle standing in front of a flowing, striped background. The message was: “WE STAND UNITED… THESE COLORS DON’T RUN!” And what about those colors? Rather than the expected red…
Any schmuck can part his lips and blow wind across his vocal cords. The real trick is to string together sounds that someone wants to hear, otherwise it’s just so much noise. But wait, is it really important to always say what someone wants hear? Is there some value in pointing out the things that someone doesn’t want to see? Well, the answer to this question, like many of the great…
I have been toying with the idea of registering my own domain name. It’s a vanity thing. There is very little practical use for it, considering my needs (none). I always just thought it would be cool. Yes, I’ve talked about this already in this space. Yes, I’ve talked about it with my wife even more. Every time it comes down to the same thing, it’s more money for a hobby…
Does anything say “man on board” quite like “four wheel drive”? How about “large four wheel drive”? And how about that Ford Expedition, the largest consumer vehicle this side of a Hummer? What self respecting, red blooded american drives around in something that gets more that twelve miles to the gallon? Did you ever think to yourself, “that guy might as…