Category: legacy
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no catchy title – I am way too tired
Well, so far so good. Let’s recap the last few days: Found out that you can buy disposable helium tanks for $29 Spent a hour blowing up green balloons for the kids at my Dojo to carry during the St. Patrick’s day parade Walked about 3.5 miles herding them… straight lines, even spacing, don’t pop…
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WebDAV? – I can feel my mind going…
WebDAV? – I can feel my mind going… As you are no doubt aware, I live in a world dominated (professionally anyway) by three big companies. Adobe – the people who make Photoshop exist in my life pretty much only for that one thing and maybe Premiere. I have tried to like their other stuff……
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a very fast note – then I am going to SLEEP!
Ok, some items of interest in no particular order: Something with my system is not entirely happy with Windows 2000 Advanced Server. I am not at all sure what it is. I am seeing some odd display artifacts and other symptoms (Explorer will crash every now and then). I can live with it as I…
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sheesh – what a night!
sheesh – what a night! Spent it all working on our current project for Client X. It is a pretty large one and the really scary thing is that they are still shipping us content changes even though they think the site was to be delivered this morning. Ah well, that’s the way clients are.…
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reload : step ?9? – the saga continues
So while I was getting some of the utilities I need, Cnet showed me a link to something called Go!Zilla. It is a download manager that is supposed to make it easier for you to grab files from the web. It’s garbage. The interface is needlessly flashy It installs advertising software on your machine There…
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gotta love talent – while I am here…
gotta love talent – while I am here… I just want to mention again how much I love these guys. "In situations such as the one I’m talking about, someone will probably say something like "I think the general theme of Tran poetry is not philosophy so much as pride – pride in the discovery…
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reload – step 8 – back on track
reload – step 8 – back on track Well, I spent the last bit of time organizing my email, and started downloading Ultradev. I might take this moment to mention FlashGet, a pretty spiffy high speed downloader. It’s not perfect by a long shot but it sure has some good points. I also went off…
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reload – step 7 – dammit!
reload – step 7 – dammit! I knew I would forget something. My Outlook rules. I am on like 100 mailing lists and I forgot to back up the rules that auto-sorts them into folders for me. That sucks.
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squirrels and blonds – oh my god
squirrels and blonds – oh my god While I have a moment let me point you at the website for the video game "Conker’s Bad Fur Day". If you take a moment to enter you will find a quicktime of a TV commercial (extended and uncensored) that shows a truly outstanding blond in the lead…