I realized it’s been a while since I posted this link. It’s to my Amazon wishlist, filled with all kinds of things I’d enjoy receiving.
If you just want to get some stuff for yourself, you selfish person you, check out the store, with wacky designs for any occasion.
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Proving that the Defense Information Systems Agency doesn’t have a monopoly on boneheaded IT stuff, I have the following tale to entertain one and all.
Just got an email telling me my password to a site with the Navy is due to expire soon. I go to the site, type in what I think is my password, and find that I have totally forgotten my password to this site. Go to the FAQ to find out how to retrieve the password, and I’m told to contact my registrar, who is listed on a linked document. That document, as you may have guessed, requires my password to access. Huh? “Don’t have your password? Well, just type in your password and we’ll give it to you.” Bright folks, wonder if they ever tried following their own instructions…
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Britney likes girls – Britney Spears has the hots for Jenna Jameson, porn star.
Feds cancel TIPS program – TIPS being the system where you were supposed to narc on your neighbor.
Disney bans Palm – standardize on Blackberry or iPaq devices.
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According to this page, I’m well-suited to living in Kent, Bremerton, and other such dank musty spots about the Puget Sound. Strange that Monterey was not listed in the entire 4 pages of other cities, although Athens Georgia was. Like I want to live in the Southeast. Of course, my top 6 listings all had precipitation of 35 inches per year or greater, despite my saying I didn’t seek out rain. The top two are in the Pac NW, despite my saying I would rather not live in the snowier parts of the country. I doubt the veracity of this “predictor” tool…
The December trip to Hawaii is now in February. To fill the time, I’m going to San Diego for a few days in December, just a week before I go to Minnesota. San Diego, Minnesota…nice dichotomy.
You know those marvelous pop-up blocking programs that IE users have? The ones Opera and Mozilla/Netscape users don’t need because it’s built into the browser? Well, there’s a company that is campaigning to “raise awareness” of how using a pop-up blocker is thievery. I’d have an easier time taking these guys seriously if they didn’t have at least one egregious English error per paragraph. Not terribly professional.
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Yet another new design in the Andy Social Emporium.
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Every document we create here at the JITC (subsidiary of the Dumbass Information Sabotage Agency) is designed so that, when printed doublesided, every new section starts on an odd page. This is a common convention in reports and books, so no problem. The strange thing to me has been that we never print things double-sided. Oh, we’ve got dozens of duplexing printers, but it has been decreed by our many bosses that they prefer to receive documents that use as much paper as possible.
Last week, the LAN ops guys reset all the duplexing printers so they would duplex by default (the default had been the opposite for years). Now, my cow-orkers are bitching that the damned printer is printing everything doublesided. Do they have difficulty with books, which must be overly complicated to them?
Yet another way in which our tax dollars are wisely shepherded.
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Another wonderful day at the Defense Information Systems Agency. After upgrading the Outlook clients over the weekend, they’ve somehow been able to bring the network down on Monday.
As previously bitched about, all our applications are stored centrally, so as to maximize the likelihood of a network packet collision crashing a program at the most innoportune moment. They have, however, made our Outlook app available via the oh-so-hostile Outlook Web Access system. Can I log into OWA via my personal ISP account? That would be NO.
With no applications available, we may as well not be here. We can’t even open up our contacts and get phone numbers to call, since the contacts list is stored on the same server that is unresponsive.
And this is the same bureaucracy that is in charge of the Homeland Big Brother Agency. Great…
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After consultation with
- What would you most like to get this year?
- What would you least like to get?
- What’s the best you have had in the past?
- What’s the strangest?
- What is the best you gave?
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This article just made me feel so much for Mr. Ralsky. He’s made millions on spam, and yet he feels so harassed by the public that he hides his address and phone number, working from cell phones and unlisted numbers to remain anonymous. He talks of “covering his tracks” and is unapologetic about his earlier convictions for fraud. Dude, if your business resembles the Sopranos in many details, perhaps you are doing something wrong.
There are many impatient people in the world, it seems. I just got an IM out of the blue from a complete stranger. I responded with a single word greeting, then went back to work (I am at work after all).
A few seconds later I notice a message on my screen telling me I’m rude for ignoring people. Well, excuse me for not responding in three seconds to a complete stranger who is not even saying anything beyond “Hello” and shit. That makes as much sense as telemarketers getting mad because I don’t pick up the phone. Just because I have Trillian running doesn’t mean I’m required to answer people in under 5 seconds. Get a life.
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Got a clarification on Cafepress’s “make $25 or get erased” policy. Apparently, there is a significant accounting problem at CP, due to the many stores with a small amount of commission due, yet not enough to send them a check. Those stores cause headaches. Stores with no commission due (all too many of them, I’m sure) don’t cause a problem.
So, I fall into the “pain in the ass” accounting category, it seems. I get about 25 bucks a year in commissions from Cafepress. But, they say they’ll make it easy on folks, by allowing them (soon) to use their commissions as partial payment on Cafepress products. If you do that, the commission accounting mess goes away, and your store remains open. Of course, it also means you used up your commission to buy a t-shirt instead of getting a check, but if you’re not making more than $50 per year, it probably doesn’t really matter anyhow.
Now, to prevent me from having to use CP-Bucks to buy my own stuff, you could head over to my store and help me out. Nobody has bought any “Eat Me” gear yet, which is quite a surprise, considering the folks on LJ…
Microsoft screws up privacy again
They got some real dim bulbs over there, I think.
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For further proof that our education system is, perhaps, lacking in some basics, this story from CNN today:
WHERE IN THE WORLD
Among 18- to 24-year-old Americans given maps:
- 87 percent cannot find Iraq
- 83 percent cannot find Afghanistan
- 76 percent cannot find Saudi Arabia
- 70 percent cannot find New Jersey
- 49 percent cannot find New York
- 11 percent cannot find the United States
They can’t find New Jersey – ok, well, who would want to. But, for nearly half the respondents to be incapable of finding New York? Damn.
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