The house behind us has a large “shade” tree. It has an enormous quantity of fern like foliage that does a good job cutting the sun that beats down on our back yard. All good right? Except that when it loses its foliage, it dumps an incredible amount into our pool. How much? I have to skim and scoop two or three times a day, and still the filter gets jammed. In December, we had a cold...
There are many valid reasons to hate GoDaddy web hosting, from their soft-porn advertisements, to their owner’s proclivity to go big game hunting in Africa, to the barrage of pushy marketing of their goods and services (no, I don’t want to add domains today). Today though, I will be complaining about their support and their absolutely shitty hosting platform. Until Friday, March 22...
A recent post I mentioned that I would follow up with my irritation with Arizona cyclists. In that post I mentioned the insane practice that is widespread of cycling on the sidewalks, that greatly increases the hazards to people walking. Today, I am going to grumble about cyclists who are unfamiliar with the rules of the road. First, I grew up in California, at a time when the schools were well...
No secret is the fact that I moved from Tucson to Chandler last summer. So far, the experience has been great. Roads are better maintained, there are streetlights, and most of the neighborhoods are well planned, and laid out with plenty of green space. My wife and I compare it to “Sunnyvale” where no dangerous critters are allowed. Cool so far. However, there is a problem. It appears...
A week and a half ago, my Wife bought gas at a Quick Trip in Tucson. Apparently, some shitball skimmer had jacked the pump she used, and lifted her credit card information. We came back from a short holiday in San Diego, checked out bank account, and found some sleazeball had used Western Union to wire $969 our of our checking account. Fuck. Call the bank, put a hold on the charge (it went...
Just had an ambush call. (that is when Sales invites you on a call, but "forgets" to clue you in on what is to be discussed). Needless to say, some pretty deep hip waders were needed. The whole premise was that we failed to accomplish some perform...
A wicked american piece of heavy metal, a real muscle car, the Mustang 302 Boss. A bitchen car from 1969 and 1970 has been re-introduced. A worthy successor. However, it is a fucking crime against humanity to defenestrate such an awesome machine w...
I have long thought that us "geeks" who spend a large fraction of our existence working with, and trying to improve technology were a cut above. Both emotionally and mentally. This belief has been shattered. Two threads on Slashdot recently showed...
I have recently changed jobs, and as part of my standard kit when I joined was a brand new HP Elitebook 8460p. Not a bad system, a pretty peppy Intel Core i5, and a Sandy Bridge chipset. It came with 4G of Ram, and our standard Win 7 x64 image. SH...
I rarely complain about regulations. I know that many, if not most of them are really for the best. We know what happens when there isn't any oversight at all. But once in a while, I have a real WTF moment. RoHS, or Reduction of Hazardous Substanc...