Jay McGavren's Journal

2004-02-19

Welcome to the ranks of the well-informed!

I finally got off my butt and set up an RSS reader. Behold:

http://spook.myserver.org/text/news.htm

Slashdot, Roger Ebert, Dave Barry, CNN, MegaTokyo, and you (yup, all LiveJournals have RSS feeds), all summarized on one page, with links to the original articles/posts. It’ll be a few hours old by the time you see it; I still need to set it up as a scheduled task to keep it fresh.

Say, Eric, I notice that both PostNuke (MoMaMag) and Invision Power Board (MoMaBBS) have RSS capability if you install the right versions/modules…

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2004-02-17

Like most geeks, I’m often called upon to solve technical problems by my co-workers. But this one’s new… I just had someone ask me to explain the “there are only 10 types of people: those who understand binary, and those who don’t” joke. :P

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2004-02-10

“2D? How can they do Zelda in 2D?” -Diana, upon learning of the NES and SNES Zelda games

Diana’s been playing the hell out of Zelda: Wind Waker. And she’s asked me to burn her an MP3 CD with some downtempo so she can listen while she does homework.

Yeah, she’s a keeper. :)

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2004-02-06

A Glossary...

A recent conversation turned to weird acronyms we use only at work or school, and I realized I had an insanely large number…

ACU: Automated Channel Update AGU: Automatic GDS Update AMF: ASCII Message Format BRD: Business Requirements Document CRS: Central Reservation System DTE: Data Transfer Express FDD: Functional Design Document GDS: Global Distribution System HOD: Hotel Operational Description PFF: Positional Flat File PRINUP: PRoperty INformation UPdate SMP: Screen Management Program SOP: Standard Operating Procedure SWAD: System Works As Designed SWAG: Scientific Wild-Ass Guess TDD: Technical Design Document TPE: Transaction Processing Environment

…and that’s just what I could think of off the top of my head. :P

I recently titled a document “Sabre HOD PFF FDD”. I kid you not.

Anyone else have any they’d like to share?

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2004-02-04

Wrote a couple quick scripts to let me store the names and command lines of all my Windows shortcuts in a plain text file, then (re)generate the shortcut files on the fly. It let me convert all my Web shortcuts from opening in Internet Explorer to opening in Mozilla/Firebird with one quick search and replace. Not bad.

Now, what else do I need to move to a centralized text file?

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