You know what really makes me angry. It’s someone sending me a huge attachment when I only have dialup going and then turning around and discovering that the attachment is their resume, that they obviously were sending to a purchased spammer address list, because this isn’t even a business, let alone one that is advertising…
OK, seems that with the IP tweak blogger is working, and it also seems that the invalid character problem is fixed now too. (Note to self: be careful cutting and pasting quotes from other people’s blogs, sometimes they use funky characters!) Good, now I can finish up my work and get ready to head out…
The XML feed has a buggy character in it somewhere and isn’t working in amphetadesk, and maybe other aggregators. I’ll work on rooting it out sometime today, please be patient. Of course you’re not getting this update when I post it because blogger isn’t working either. Gonna be one of those days, isn’t it? Obviously,…
I just finished up some tweaks to our main database and I’m happy with myself. There’s something about making DB tweaks that just makes me happy. I think it’s sort of like solving a puzzle. Someone comes to you with information they want to start tracking, you ask them what type of information and what…
Yesterday I emailed a resume and short questionnaire in response to a job posting to do desktop support. The job involved building, upgrading and maintaining PC’s at an office complex. One of the questions on the questionnaire was whether I had a college degree. (Not a CIS degree, just any college degree..) About 5 minutes…
A few thoughts on what some others are saying.. Mike Chandler has some interesting stuff on advertising on blogs. I think some small advertising isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I go to a lot of blogs that have the little text ads and they don’t bother me at all. The real problem comes in when…