Here's how much respect my company has for our PC configurations...
Just got this company-wide e-mail from our Manager of Corporate Communications…
> It’s easier than ever to access the important information > stored on [corporate website], because [corporate website] > is now the default home page for everyone’s browser. > > Please be advised that if you change your default page, > [corporate website] will reset itself as your default page > every 90 minutes. (No, that’s not an April Fools prank, > it’s by design.)
When management needs to reassure everyone that IT policy is not, in fact, an April Fool’s joke, you know you’re in trouble.
Good thing I use a different Web browser than the rest of the company. :)
Read more...We can't take much more o' this, cap'n!
I adopted a cute lil’ Scotty fetus from Fetusmart! Hooray fetus!
Read more...Two-minute movie recap...
Dawn of the Dead was freaking awesome - A premise as creepy as the original, but with a much needed update to the makeup work. (Blueface, anyone?) I felt like it ripped off 28 Days Later for a lot of its visual style, but it’s a damn good film on its own merits. We’re talking all-time top 10 good.
Gothika wasn’t too original, and there was at least one plot hole big enough to drive a truck through.
Cabin Fever - A decent story, but the cast is unremarkable. And you know how every horror film has that asshole/snob/ditz that you hope is the first to die? Every character is like that here. Rent this one if you want to have your faith in humanity shredded.
Read more...FINALLY!
I finally have my Perl module talking with the Apollo system! (I’ve been trying to do that for over a year, but other projects keep coming up.) It was always an embarrassment having to say that I support “all the GDSs. Well, except for Apollo.”
Kinda dumb that I couldn’t get to it until it looked like I’d be leaving my department. Oh, well, at least it’s done.
P.S.: While I was writing this, my test script freaked out and crashed. :P Hopefully it’s nothing major.
Read more...I'm proud of me...
I mounted a motherboard in a case and installed a CPU without frying it last night! It appears that the IDE controller in Diana’s old motherboard was indeed the problem; I formatted the hard drive and installed Win2K without any trouble. I won’t believe it’s really fixed until I’ve hooked it up to the Net and left it on for 24 hours, though.
Hmmm, maybe I will assemble my next Intel box from scratch, after all.
Right now, though, I’m looking long and hard at Macintosh. I’ve picked up a copy of Mac OS X Hacks, and it seems this OS is highly scriptable, more so than Linux. I’m gonna browse it more this weekend, and if it looks like I can do all the stuff I want, that’s where my tax refund is going.
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