Fried…

I’m starting to obsess over work. I get home, get Ethan to bed, have dinner and start thinking that I have to be back into work in 12 hours. I need a vacation!
My wife’s taking a trip in May, we’re going to Kauai in July for a week, and I may have a trade junket [...]

Backlogged…

25 pictures in my SD110.
50 in my D70.
A roll of 24-exposure 110 film from my toy camera.
A roll of 36 exposure Kodak 400 out of my SLR.
No wonder I haven’t had any pictures to share!

Glurf

Only Oracle could come up with a web-based application that requires a huge desktop application install to run. Isn’t the idea behind an ASP/web-based model that YOU DON’T HAVE TO INSTALL SOFTWARE ON THE DESKTOP?

Bye Bye, Macromedia!

Adobe Buys Macromedia in $3.4B Stock Deal
I worked at Macromedia back in the 90s, and have fond memories of my time there. Macromedia was one of the first places where I felt like I had a PEER GROUP; the IT group was large enough that there were other souls suffering through the same operational nightmares [...]

blurgh

Spent the weekend babysitting Exchange servers - my production server was crashing out twice a week because of a lack of maintenance, and I had to restore an old backup to a test system. We’re using Exchange 5.5, Backup Exec 8.6, and NT 4.0, and it’s all a bit long in the tooth.
Add to this [...]

Cheap Coffee of the day — CAFE BUSTELO

Usually, I’ll drink bad coffee then post about it, but here’s a good one -Cafe Bustelo. The sysop of cool beans! BBS and editor of the Zine by the same name swears by CB.
If you want cheap expresso with a kick, Bustelo is your game. It’s got a nice nutty hint, smooth, but not overly [...]

This makes me smile…