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Posts from April 2004

My last few runs…

I’ve started getting a tweaky pain in my right knee, which is when I know it’s time to replace my running shoes. My right foot overpronates way more than my left, and when that shoe starts breaking down and not supporting my foot, the twisting carries through to my knee.
I picked up a new pair [...]


I heart windows

I invariably do work for small businesses where they don’t have full-time desktop support and made everyone a local administrator of their PC desktop. The system tray is inevitably *full* of stuff they’ve installed and they wonder why their system takes so long to boot. I went in to a client’s shop and took a [...]


Busy…

I’m doing several projects for a client at once - moving their co-location facility, migrating them off of Lotus Notes (a horrid mail solution for small companies, decent groupware if you have a dedicated admin) and doing day-to-day IT tasks for them. Going in to San Francisco to work has been fun the past few [...]


Outsourcing of software development

Attention to:IT department of Pointdexter, who?
Dear Manager,
We saw your company description in the “Alexa” database and we are interested in establishing partnership between our companies.
SBND Technologies, a leading Bulgarian software outsourcing company, caters to custom programming in the areas of Web development, Internet based systems development, Low-level systems development and Desktop applications. SBND Technologies [...]


Posted
25 April 2004 @ 9pm

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rants

What’s the Diff?

this boston.com article describes the MPAA working along with Junior Achievement to educate America’s children about copyright law, in a new program called “What’s the Diff?”
Some excerpts:
Critics say that the program does not adequately explain the public’s rights in copyright law, nor does it discuss the proliferation of legal websites that offer free music [...]


Where did this weekend go?

I went out with a friend of mine friday night in San Francisco, had great sushi, then stayed up until 2am watching a classic bad movie. Thanks to my alarm, which I forgot to turn off, I was up at 0600. Blerf.
I didn’t realize until I looked up Road House in IMDB that I [...]


Time’s flying…

I went out with a friend of mine last night in San Francisco, had great sushi, then stayed up until 2am watching <a href=http://www.whatever-dude.com/posts/335.shtml>bad movies</a>. Thanks to conditioning, I was up at 0600. Blerf.
I didn’t realize until I looked up <a href=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098206/>Road House</a> in IMDB that I dated one of the Double Deuce barflies in [...]


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