Westboro Baptist Church - you know, those incredible bastards that picket military funerals with anti-gay slogans - are picketing in the UK now.  Shirley Phelps-Roper has what I'm sure she beleives to be a well-reasoned and informed interview about it with the Guardian.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/4678943/Westboro-Baptist- ( Read more... )

It's best to try to put the toothpaste on the electric toothbrush before you turn it on.

My boss calls me in a panic yesterday night.

He can't get into his email.

Yes, this is bad.

I get his machine, and once again he's got a .pst file that's WAY over 2 gig.  And since he's using Outlook 2000 (don't ask) outlook just chokes on trying to open it.

I spend 5 hours last night and another hour this morning trying to deal with this.  I get as ( Read more... )

Note to self:

When the hot pan comes out of the 450F oven, it will remain rather hot for quite some time. Make sure that when you grab the handle, you're grabbing it with the hand that's wearing the oven mitt.

Ow.

At least the poulet au vinaigre was pretty tasty.  Voulez-vous poulet avec moi?

I spent a lot of last night drinking scotch and shouting at the TV ( Read more... )

Some code I discovered the other day (recopied, pseudocoded) for finding the index of a specific column in a grid by name:

Function findColumnByName(name) as integer for i = 0 to column.count-1 if column(i).name = name then exit loop next return i
end function
The problem here, which I'm sure is obvious to coders, is that if it doesn't ( Read more... )

WE HAS THEM!

Now I'm getting the runaround from two telcos simultaneously. AT&T has screwed up our line so nobody can put a dialtone on it. TDS is powerless until AT&T can fix it.

They *might* have it fixed tomorrow. *Might.*

I'm waiting for them to cut off my power next.

I called TDS last night to tell them to cancel my order. They very effectively bribed me to wait - I'm getting a $10 credit per month for every day they're late. I also finally got a customer service guy who's doing stuff other than apologizing and saying there's ntohing he can do. The guy has actually called *me* with updates ( Read more... )

Any bets on whether I get internet and phone service today?

Yesterday the excuse was all the storm damage. Probably valid, but gosh it'd be nice if they infomred me that they weren't going to come out.