My job satisfaction continues to decline. I’m in a position now that I ought to love. My boss and most of my peers work from other locations. I have my own office with a door and a window. With a good percentage raise this month my salary is no longer embarrassingly low… but it’s still […]
Archive for November, 2004
Satisfaction
30Nov04Back of the Bus
30Nov04Is it just my imagination, or are there no shipping PCI Express motherboards for any of the AMD CPU variants?
Death to all Pop-ups
29Nov04My first New Year’s Resolution is to purge my bookmarks of all sites that force links to outside content to open in a new window. All of the major media sites that I (rarely) visit have ceased the practice over the past few years. The main offenders these days seem to be weblog-ish techie sites […]
Great Artists Steal
29Nov04I’ve never been so jealous of Mac OS X as I was when Apple first released their video preview of the Exposé feature in Mac OS X Panther. Apple didn’t merely raise the bar on window management — they launched it to the moon. With a single feature…
Naturally I longed for a Windows XP version. […]
Gambling
27Nov04What I really want this Christmas is a 30-ish inch LCD TV. Early this year I was so happy to finally get my 43-inch projection set out of storage. IMO it was the best sub-$2000 set available in the Spring of 2001, but now I have limited quarters and would like to put the space […]
Suckage
27Nov04Renaming mt-comments.cgi slowed down the scumbag comment spammers but has not stopped them. I’ve turned on Typekey registration. The standard implementation requires Cookies and Javascript. Sorry for the inconvenience. When I have more time to mess with it I will re-implement the Javascript stuff on the server side.
Contact me if there are problems.
On the plus […]
Bad Case of the Mondays…
22Nov04Forgot to set my alarm clock. Woke up two hours late. Car wouldn’t start.
Ah well, it had been a while since I had a non-hurricane day off. For months I’ve been putting off about a dozen errands that required an an afternoon off to accomplish. I managed to complete one. I suppose that, despite the […]
Firewall
21Nov04My buddy Andy is looking for an easy to configure Linux or BSD firewall distribution. At minimum he needs NAT, a Windows-compatible VPN, and some sort of QoS / Traffic Shaping for his VOIP phone. He wants to run this on an IBM Thinkpad T30 with dual NICs — onboard + an old Xircom CARDBUS […]
