Nothing like coming in and finding a laptop that won’t boot and a bad video driver screwing with a monitor image waiting for you first thing. Fun, fun… Update: Got the laptop to boot, disabling the Palm HotSync software at startup seems to have done the trick. Bad Palm! The monitor is proving to be…
A wife that keeps us straight. Think webloggers don’t have editors? You haven’t met my wife. “You sounded cocky today,” she announced. “I think you’re getting into ‘the royal we.’” Oh, great, everyone is a critic. “Hey dear, why don’t you write a weblog?” My wife does that too, the only difference is that she…
Saw this over on Mike Sanders’ blog today: Simple Guide to the A-List Bloggers. It’s anonymously authored, and that’s probably a good thing, since some people really do take themselves too seriously. 🙂
Not making the progress I want to so far. Had a few interruptions, and I’m expecting a few more, unfortunately. One of those “Mike can you tell us ‘XYZ’ from this data even though we never bothered to track the data that would actually tell you “XYZ” from the start of the project and have…
Spent most of yesterday swimming in various Access databases, will probably spend a bunch more of today doing the same thing. Our membership database software is so difficult to use that whenever I have anything more than the simplest SQL functions I wind up pulling everything out into Access and doing the functions there and…
This story is an interesting look at the anti-spam “challenge-response” technique, which is now being offered to all Earthlink customers. I think it raises good points, especially when it comes to mailing lists being inundated with challenges. Personally, if I’m on a mailing list and I get a challenge from one of the members of…