December 2007
“1. I never had to stand in line
Waiting on hold sucks. T-Mobile knows it so...”
– Lessons from T-Mobile’s support - (37signals) Excellent example of customer service. From a cell phone company. In the U.S. I feel stories like this are so few and far between I like to highlight when I find one.
“Driftnet is a program which listens to network traffic and picks out images from...”
– Driftnet I’ve got a spare router kicking around. This could be a lot of fun in my apartment complex.
“The truth is, regardless of how many pointy tools and shampoo bottles we...”
– The Airport Security Follies - Jet Lagged - Air Travel - Opinion - New York Times Blog Brillian op/ed piece about the ridiculousness of the present screening procedures. In a recent flight over Thanksgiving, my brother and I were given a complimentary rubdown by our friendly TSA employees apparently...
“For a second, I paused. “You’re the CEO of Palm, Inc.?” I asked again, not...”
– Could Tech Support Undo Palm? Yes, poor tech support can undo any company. No matter how good a product, the experience after purchase is more important than the experience before purchase. I just wish more companies would realize this and stop treating their customers like dirt. All the while...
“Club Thievey is an attempt to make this crazy idea into reality. Here’s how it...”
– Club Thievey Lemurs are awesome and deserve our help.
“The RIAA’s legal crusade against its customers is a classic example of an...”
– Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use - washingtonpost.com
“Back in March we passed on some advice on safe air travel with batteries,...”
– Web Worker Daily » Archive TSA Cracks Down on Batteries «… Dear Santa, All I want for Christmas is the national charade of security to come to an end. Please show me some solid data that all of these security measures are doing us a tiny bit of good. I will be willing to bet that TSA...
Bad Timing
Annie: that will be quite a week for us
Annie: 6 month anniversary on the 10th
Annie: your birthday on the 12th
Annie: valentines day on the 14th
Annie: we have bad timing
“In short, we don’t upgrade that often, but when we do, we do it with items of...”
– The Simple Dollar » Zen and the Art of Item Replacement
“9. You
Charges: You believe in freedom of speech, until someone says something...”
– The BEAST: America’s Best Fiend: 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007
“ Carl Holscher knows the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow (African *AND*...”
– Top 100 Facts About Carl Holscher
Coda-Slider 1.1.1 →
“Turns out you can’t just go disabling stuff willy-nilly in msconfig on Vista....”
– via Niall Doherty » Blog
FreeNAS with iTunes (mt-daapd) - M1DST →
I use my FreeNAS box for my iTunes library anyway. Now I can play them all directly from the server and no longer have to mess with mounting it locally!
Warner Music Group drops DRM →
Nate Anderson: [Warner Music] will now offer its complete catalog, DRM-free, through Amazon’s new MP3 store. There was no mention of whether this offer extends to iTunes, but at least it’s one more nail in DRM’s coffin. via cubicle17 Doot Doot Doot. Another one bites the dust!
“Stuff is an extremely illiquid asset. Unless you have some plan for selling that...”
– via Paul Graham’s Stuff If only I could have realized this BEFORE I accumulated so much stuff. I have now moved on to the declutter phase.
Books
For Christmas I got a few books. And I’ve actually started reading them. Real books. Printed on paper. Not a scrap of HTML to be seen! (They weren’t even coding books!) And I really enjoyed it. I should look into this whole “book” thing more often.
JPGmag
One day in the sun.
IT IS CHRISTMAS! :-D
“In summary, I would happily recommend this pen to anyone who is planning on...”
– Amazon.co.uk: Bic Crystal ballpoint pen, medium point, black, EACH: Electronics & Photo I am fascinated / frightened by the people who write in-depth fanficon products at Amazon.
“I think my stomach has lost the ability to tell whether it’s hungry or...”
– Eric
“Thou shalt honor the Macs and the IBMs equally in your heart, for while they are...”
– » The Ten Commandments of Design BoDo: Business of Design online » Blog Archive
The site (URL) you attempted to access has been...
How the fuck is profanity a reason to filter a web site? Similar to nostrich’s numbler being classified (because it sits on hit nostrich.net domain) as “pornography.” stupid fucking goddamn work filters. Edited according to mr. nostrich’s lowercase wishes. I should have known, I believe in a lowercase peroty as well. When people try to capitalize it, it simply looks...
“Now it doesn’t make any sense monetarily to really make videos unless you...”
– Trent Reznor on Year Zero, Planting Clues, and What’s Ludicrous About Being a Musician Today
“The only difference between an atheist and a theist is space.”
– peroty
“The second half of the intro starts at about 30 seconds in and moves from...”
– Best Buy Bodhisattva | Gamers With Jobs
Using Macfuse To Mount FTP and SSH as “iDisks” →
— jark
+3700 iconos gratis para tu web o blog →
— montoya
Geek To Live: Transform Your Classic Xbox into a... →
Saved for reference as I hope to be doing this soon.
“It just occurred to me how civil the language is on tumblr, in total absence of...”
– jakoblodwick This pretty much sums up how I feel about the act of banning anything. People are naturally going to rebel against something they can’t do. Stop making it taboo and the problem decreases.
HTMLpaper
Dear Internet, HTML is not printed. This medium is not distributed on dead trees. Please stop paginating stories which really do not need to be. It’s annoying and I rearely read to the end of the article because I have to keeping hitting next. Put your whole story on 1 page. It will stretch to be longer, I promise. Thank you, Carl
Names
The moment you name something, a group of friends, a clique, an organization of strangers you change it. And in many ways, mark that time as a do or die moment for the group. Either the group will flourish and grow under the new “official” header or the group will die. A by-product of infighting and strife.
PC Pro: News: Microsoft up for sale on Ebay →
Act now and you could be Microsoft in Portugal.
“Reduce the number of icons on your desktop - Each of your icons on your desktop...”
– I always forget about that one. That and 13 other tips for keeping your mac lean and happy at Obby Gobby | A Happy Mac is an Efficient Mac
proof of purchase →
Like twitter on receipts. Each receipt comes with a tiny story, wrapped between lines for sales tax, purchases and memories. Brilliant idea! Found through insuchaworld
“Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way....”
– jef raskin via joe
Vent
I was going to write up this big whole long thing about how my boss and I miscommunicate often. Instead, I’m just going to say I now have to redo a task that took all morning. Except this time I’ll be doing it this evening, after most people have left so it will go smoother and much quicker. And really, it’s ok. It’s not a big deal. I got so little sleep last night (2.5...
“I can reset the internet but don’t be surprised if it stops again.”
– Annie
WTF Are "Core Hours," Anyway?
My government defines, and I paraphrase, “core hours” as the hours of the workday where an employee is required to be at work. Unfortunately, I feel like most companies abuse this idea. I’ve heard this term around the office lately, and I wanted to explain why I think “core hours” are a potentially dangerous path to start down. Core hours, in and of themselves, are nothing to fear; however, the...
SUPER Mario Bros.
There is nothing quite as beautiful as Super Mario Bros. 50” tall on the projector! We now have an Xbox 360, Playstation 2, and Nintendo Entertainment System rigged to the projector! Yes, we now have the original big gray box NES with original Mario projecting on the 96” x 50” screen on our living room wall. I think I shed a tear. It was beautiful. Perhaps Megan will be...
Alternate Christmas Carols
Swiped from Openswitch 1. Schizophrenia — Do You Hear What I Hear, the Voices, the Voices? 2. Amnesia —I Don’t Remember If I’ll be Home for Christmas 3. Narcissistic Personality Disorder — Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me 4. Bipolar Disorder (Manic Episode) — Deck The Halls And Walls And House And Lawn And Streets And Stores And Office And Town And Cars And Buses And Trucks And...
“As much as I like mazes and hide-and-go-seek, this experience of being lost for...”
– Team Fortress 2: UI design school, basically | The Montoya Herald