Rant – Reactuate

Stupid RX-8

I was on a roll. I was going to get SO much done this morning. I had a list. One of the things was to go put very expensive tires on my RX-8. While waiting for that I was going to do a bit of shopping in the area of the tire store. Call the…

Remember the Audience

I’m sitting here waiting for the Robert Rodriguez chat on DVDFanatics.com. So I thought I’d have a little rant first. I’ve been reading a lot of film and filmmaker websites lately and one thing that is seriously getting on my nerves is how indie people think their movies are better than the studios because they…

Spamwalls are Spam

I just got through going through the process to send an email to someone offering to help them to fix their down website. You don’t know how long I sat seething, thumping my fingers, trying to decide whether he deserved my help given he had wasted my time, bandwidth, mail account space, etc. But in…

Windows Media Player

I wish people would realize that there are a lot of people who don’t conform to the will of Microsoft. I run two browsers, OmniWeb and FireFox on my Mac and neither of them have a WM plugin. So if you embed a video in your web page, I have to dig into the HTML…

Milk Containers

Via Joanne Jacobs: They are getting rid of the little cardboard half pint milk cartons. ”Those … square containers are awfully hard for kids,” says New Hampshire Agriculture Commissioner Steve Taylor, who has watched the trend spread to some 320 schools in New England. ”Teachers say you can spend the whole lunch period just walking…

Rich Site Summary – WTF!

So I see a headline from CNet in my news reader for an article saying Google may support RSS in Blogger again. I start reading the article and the first sentence of the second paragraph blows me away. It needs fisking, so here it is. RSS, or Rich Site Summary, lets online publishers automatically send…

Cats

I work for a small company with a small office. We have two small bathrooms. But right now the guys bathroom is home to a stray cat. It had to be put there because the other two cat holders are already full. And no I don’t work for an animal shelter. Just seems like it….

I’m Pissed

I’m pissed and its about work, which means I can’t blog about it. Crap. So why am I even posting this? Because I need to vent a little. And I want a have a record of this. I can look back and say “oh yeah in December I was pissed at work. I know what…