Well, at least Microsoft knows that they have a tradition of suck. They are apparently again worried about their reputation of complications after birth. If they want to blame it on the OEM garbage software, so be it (I don’t disagree that it’s GARBAGE!), but I know the truth. I’ve used Vista Ultimate for almost two months now (I got it when it came out on MSDN), and it’s been plenty unstable. I did a clean install, and I don’t think it needs any craplets to make it any more brittle.
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Categorised in Change, Gripes and Technology
I was soooo ready for it and then BAM! There it was. I saw an article this evening on Slashdot while I was reading the day’s take that said Apple said something about the iPhone at their keynote today. I took a look and sure enough, there it was. I’m just gonna come right out and say that it looks kick-ass. It runs a flavor of OS X and has a gazillion Apple-style bells and whistles. You can even see who your voicemails are from and listen to them in any order you want.
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Categorised in Change and Technology
In a recent project at work I was asked how we could change the URL of a page in a website. It’s a ColdFusion website, and everything is generated out of the index page. Therefore, every page in the website looks like blah.com/index.cfm?page=123. However, for the purposes of web analytics, at least according to the marketing consultants this customer is working with, they need to make the pages appear as blah.com/page.
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Categorised in Technology and Work
Not long after I began in web development back in the mid ’90s, I began to favor fonts without serifs. I found the smooth curves and unadulterated corners of sans-serif fonts to be much more cuddly than their barbed-wire formed cousins. Perhaps I liked crispness of a clean sans-serif font on a minimalist white background or maybe I was just repulsed by the “defaultness” of serif fonts.
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Categorised in Art, Change and Technology
I’d just like to put out another public gripe about cubicles. Since I became imprisoned in this fabric-lined bastille I’ve put on 20 lbs., developed tinnitus in my right ear and started smoking. Clearly there is some unnatural force flowing from this place that is disturbing my body’s ability to maintain homeostasis.
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Categorised in Gripes and Office