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| Saturday, August 09, 2003
BloggerCon Would you pay $500 to spend the day listening to people talk about blogging? Not that I was one of the "invited", (I probably don't live close enough to Boston) but please! I'm already sick of reading all the BS hype about blogging as it is! In fact, one day last week I was so fucking sick of all the bull that goes with blogging that I came about this close to just giving it up completely! Then I remembered why I got into his and the people who I do enjoy reading and decided against that. Still, I think maybe this is the "tipping point" that all of these blogger-as journalist keep talking about, but it's not the tipping point they think they're getting. It's the tipping point where the rest of the world laughs at us for paying $500 to sit around and discuss blogging for a day. I wouldn't waste the time, let alone the money! Think of it this way, there are those who do things, and there are those who sit around talking about doing things. Which group are you in? Thanks to Joy for the link Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 5:50 PM | 0 comments | 
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Friday, August 08, 2003
Still clueless after all these years Quote from this article about the broadband market: "We're still finding that most broadband customers are attracted by speed and other practical benefits," he said. "It's not viewed as a content-driven medium yet." I have broadband so I can upload pictures, download freeware and share stuff quicker. Buying content isn't even on my radar, how about you? Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 11:32 AM | 0 comments |
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Thursday, August 07, 2003
Long day ahead... I found the Peachtree Forums today and discovered that we're not the first one's to have issues printing with this version of Peachtree. I suppose that means more work on that tomorrow to see if we can finally get this working correctly! Speaking of tomorrow, I'll be up around 6 to take Angela to the airport. back home to shower and get ready for work, work until 5, grab dinner, go back to the office for 3-4 hours to take care of some database updates that need to be done after hours, and then go home and crash, I'm guessing. Should make for quite the long day! One last note, I'm using the Blog This! feature of the new Google toolbar to post this entry. I like, I really like.. Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 8:45 PM | 0 comments |
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Accounting software sucks... Remember that hard drive I had to replace? Remember this PC belonged to my boss who does all the accounting for the organization, and that she was going to set that stuff up herself? Three days later, she still can't print checks. No wait, let me clarify, three days, a call to Peachtree support at 6 dollars per minute only to find out that the old printer she had been using is really incompatible with the version of Peachtree she'd been using and they don't have any idea who told her how to force them to work together three years ago or what the directions for doing so are, a decision to go ahead and upgrade the printer since it was old, and having problems anyway, a couple of hours of both of us running through every setting on the new printer and in Peachtree, and a couple of more hours on the phone with Epson's support, and she still can't print checks. To top off all the frustration, one of those checks she can't print is my Gnomedex expense reimbursement! As an aside, for 6 dollars a minute, I almost expected to have a throaty, breathless support operator, wouldn't you? *L* Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 11:01 AM | 0 comments |
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Wednesday, August 06, 2003
Email marketing In connection with the conversation we had yesterday, I sent this article that was linked in today's Lockergnome to the head of our Communications Department. What do you think, is the upcoming version of Office turning off images and HTML by default combined with the "spam wars" going to kill email as a marketing tool? Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 3:15 PM | 0 comments |
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Wow Been such a busy morning that I just looked up and was amazed that it's almost lunch time. Cool! I like those kinds of days! Of course, I have to spend my lunch bringing my new glasses back because the lens popped out yesterday, but oh well, it'll be nice to get out of the office for a bit. At least I still have my old pair to wear for now! Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 11:43 AM | 0 comments |
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Tuesday, August 05, 2003
Things I learned Random things I learned driving around the country last week: No matter where you are in the US, if you hit the scan button on the radio you will inevitably find these three things: 1. A "Real Classic Rock" station that plays far too much Zeppelin, Kansas and Skynyrd. 2. A just plain "classic rock" station that plays far too much 80's music. 3. A "metal" station that at some appointed hour during the evening will play the cleverly named "mandatory Metallica". (I heard that exact phrase used by three different stations in three different markets!) You'll also find a country station or two, but since I don't like country I have no idea what they play. There is a spanish language station somewhere near Hastings, Nebraska. Are there that many spanish-speaking people in Hastings? And if so, where are they hiding? It really is scary to be driving along one of the big, open, tornado-prone states when the temp drops 15 degrees in like 2 minutes and storm clouds start forming off to your side. It makes you drive faster to get the hell out of said state! Speaking of which, Kansas needs a higher speed limit. Colorado is lucky to have mountains. The eastern part of the state before you get to the mountains might as well be Kansas. Apparently, the preferred way to respond to anything in Colorado is by replying "Niiice..", except if it's really big news, then you respond "Oh, niiice..". The vast majority of people in this country are far too busy leading their own lives to give a shit what any blogger, politician, or journalist has to say about anything. Those people are also far happier than those who do give a shit. The reasons for this are not what you think. Every A-List blogger should read The True Believer : Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, consider what it has to say about the source of social change, and view the hype about blogging in light of that knowledge. John Dvorak is a cranky old man. But he's also one of the only people out there who will tell you the truth about technology, and the truth is, most of what you hear and read is BS. On the other hand, some technology can be a great tool for communication and increased communication can create some good. It won't, however, change human nature, and it will also create some bad to go along with every good thing. No matter what happens for the rest of my life, I don't ever want to forget the picture of two people I saw in Des Moines one afternoon. They were sitting, enjoying a beautiful sunny day, eating their lunches, laughing, holding hands and generally having a good time. They were also both in wheelchairs and had very obvious handicaps, but that didn't stop them from enjoying the day they had to be together. Enjoy what today brings... Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 12:56 PM | 0 comments |
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Pictures Finished up the pictures from this summer's massive road trip last night! Enjoy! Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 8:56 AM | 0 comments |
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Monday, August 04, 2003
Major issues down.. It's 10AM and between putting in 4 hours yesterday and two so far today, all of the major issues left over from my vacation have been dealt with. My boss' hard drive has been replaced and the software installations finished (except for the accounting package, she has always done that one herself) , the receptionist's email outage has been solved, my expense reports from Gnomedex have been filled out, and I've managed to wade through all of my email and formulate a plan for dealing with everything in there. Now I still need to do month-end, reschedule the backups that I had changed to accommodate not being here, make a bunch of database changes, make some user changes on the server, read the last week's worth of stuff in the RSS aggregator, research that new Windows patch from last week, make a decision on Anti-Virus upgrades, confirm the training class for one of our secretaries next week, run the database through the Congressional district-matching Access tool I built, and return a couple of phone calls from vendors. :) Anyone want my job for a couple of days? Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 10:19 AM | 0 comments |
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Sunday, August 03, 2003
Home sweet home? Yeah I arrived back home Friday night, spent yesterday with my wife and some friends going to the Irish Festival and now, on Sunday, I'm back at work trying to install that replacement hard drive so I don't have to try and do it while I deal with the 20 other things I have waiting for me when I get officially back to work! So anyway, yes there are tons of pictures, yes there are a few people waiting for emails from me, no I haven't had time to do any of it yet. Patience, grasshopper, I'll get to it! :) Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark| 5:45 PM | 0 comments |
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