Archive for March, 2008



More photographic evidence that Miami sucks

19Mar08

I now understand why Miami drivers are so friggin’ awful:

They’re all drinking while driving. This particularly brilliant example of a Miami driver was photographed just one traffic light west of the Miami-Dade Police Headquarters.

Switchers

18Mar08

“Should I be using LAMP?”
Me: Maybe.
“But .Net is easier for me and I like Visual Studio and SQL Server! I already know it. Plus we already paid for the licenses.”
Me: Then why did you ask?
“Because everything I read about LAMP makes me think I should be developing our app on Linux. All the companies […]

The Plan

18Mar08

I don’t do New Year’s resolutions, but… one of my goals for 2008 has been to get a complete understanding of my finances. My first step was to stop using my debit card. That doesn’t really help with the goal per se, but credit cards provide better protection than debit cards. I’d already stopped using […]

Unimpressed

18Mar08

I’ve recently become a Washington Mutal customer. I’m keeping my accounts with my credit union, but they don’t have any branches convenient to where I live and work these days so I figured I’d go with another bank to take my savings and smaller deposits.
So far I’m not impressed. First there was the comments form […]

I was Client #7

16Mar08

Lessons I never learn

10Mar08

Episode #736: Never walk into Best Buy with more cash / credit than is needed to buy what you went there for.
I went to Best Buy because I gave my old Dell laptop to a friend. She’d been mooching WiFi off of a neighbor, but now she’s moved and had to get her own setup. […]

Balmer on e-mail

08Mar08

[E-mail] distribution lists are abusive.
— Steve Balmer @ Mix ‘08

Apology Received

06Mar08

Someone from SWsoft (nee, Parallels) was at the office today, and of course they could not let him leave without seeing the sign:

He apologized for Plesk 6.5 for Windows.




 


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