Cell Phone rant
Thursday, May 11th, 2006 Posted in Personal News, Rants, Technology | 2 Comments »Well I "finally" got me one of them newfangled camera phones. Before I was using a cameraless LG VX4500, and I upgraded to an LG VX5200 using Verizon's "new every 2" plan (which basically means I got the phone ...
Mac Ads: It’s about time
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006 Posted in Rants, Technology | No Comments »Well Apple finally got off their asses and made another ad campaign, this time targeting PCs (sort of like the switch campaign.) Not sure how I feel about this particular campaign (look for yourself) but at least its not ...
Windows Vista: 2007
Sunday, March 26th, 2006 Posted in Rants, Technology | No Comments »Seriously. Another delay? And these guys are #1? How? As a software engineer I can't even FATHOM what kind of horrible management decisions are being made over there. Apparently, neither can some Microsoft employees. I have ...
The Dangers of Ambien!
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006 Posted in News, Rants | 1 Comment »I was watching CBS news tonight, and they reminded me why I really hate watching the news. They had a report on the dangers of Ambien! Apparently some people have been taking Ambien and falling asleep at the ...
My own WTF
Wednesday, March 1st, 2006 Posted in Rants, Technology | No Comments »To honor one of my favorite sites, The Daily WTF, I bring to you my own WTF that I came across while trying to install the latest version of Installshield Express today. Can't install Installshield Express due to an error in ...
A Word of Warning about VistaDB
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006 Posted in Rants, Technology | No Comments »No, this is not about Windows Vista. This is VistaDB which is a product that I use at work (which we won't be using long!) There are a lot of glowing reviews on the web about it. ...
FedUp with FedEx
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006 Posted in Rants | 1 Comment »Who is home at 1pm? Not many people. So why on earth does FedEx expect me to be home to receive my package? Why is my signature required for a little piece of software? Why do you ALWAYS put a ...
Bill Gates — out of touch with reality?
Friday, January 6th, 2006 Posted in Rants, Technology | 1 Comment »So I watched part of the CES keynote the other day. Bill came out and shared with everyone his vision of what future computers will be like. His example was the "family computer" being a huge touch-screen monitor ...
Putting Kill Bill together?
Friday, December 23rd, 2005 Posted in Rants | No Comments »I just read the craziest thing. Tarentino wants to re-cut Kill Bill so that it is one movie. So basically that would be a movie with the climactic battle scene smack in the middle of it. Bad idea. Filmmakers ...
Visual Studio .NET 2005
Tuesday, December 20th, 2005 Posted in Rants, Technology | No Comments »I've started to use the newest Visual Studio .NET at work, and my first impression was it was actually quite polished. Then I started to do honest to goodness work with it. We're developing a newer version of a Pocket ...