Two reboots and 10-15 minutes later, I’m running the newly dropped Internet Explorer 8 final release, upgraded from RC1. As far as my experience goes, it feels a lot snappier than IE7, but still a lot slower than Firefox or Chrome. I still won’t use it unless I have to, but at least I finally [...]
Last night I signed up for Twitter. Not that I have any real intention in using it – mostly I was bored and signed up because of a couple of articles I’ve read recently on using the service as an IT tool or as a commercial tool intrigued me.
What I’ve found strange/interesting is almost immediately [...]
Can an ass covet?
I’m aware of the über-expensive Herman Miller Aeron chairs, and have read lots of reviews by people who swear by them for office comfort. But justifying spending a thousand bucks on a chair, heck even $400-500 used, seems crazy. Now they’ve got the Embody chair, and I want. Of course, it ups [...]
Ahhhh, the first real day of crappy driving conditions of the year! Special thanks to both Eaton and Ionia counties on their lack plowing or salting roads, by the way. I still haven’t figured out why I think a shovel beats a snowblower, either.
Ah, who am I kidding? I wouldn’t have it any other way!
We’ve been gone on vacation for just over a week, and I’m flooded with electronic “stuff”. I did manage to check my personal email a few times here and there, but if it was let go after a few days I’d have 50-60 unread messages in my inbox. Most of those are daily alerts or [...]
We got slammed by some nasty storms yesterday.
This weekend we were coming back from a wedding in Southwest Michigan. Our travels led us to I-94, by way of US-131, coming from the South. This is the path I would normally take:
However, Michigan (Kalamazoo?) has decided to screw the pooch and completely hose things up. This is the new path, to get from [...]
So I’ve decided that traveling for work…in a word sucks. I’m tired of eating out for every meal. The flight out here (the long one, from Chicago to LA) was awful (thank you, airline industry for sucking even worse than you used to)…I think we need a corporate jet. And my body is out of [...]
Well, that’s it. For the second time in a few months (all revolving around changes with my web host, but that’s another story), my Wordpress install was hosed. Something with the caching mechanism it uses gets screwed up, and I get ugly errors and junk when the pages load. Last time I lost some comments [...]
2 hour software upgrade to make your expensive new phone system actually sound normal: two people, 8 hours on Saturday, 5 hours on Sunday
Elapsed time before end users tell you they are randomly unable to make outbound phone calls, or repeatedly get busy signals, or keypresses don’t register on voicemail: 2 days
4+ hours on the [...]