Moving house is always fun. Particularly when getting hold of packing boxes. Moving companies charge for them if they're not going to be returned. There's a place advertising itself as the Box Shop which has "Boxes from $1!" all over its website, by which they mean "There's a beat-up box sitting out the front of the store exposed to the weather ( Read more... )

Restaurant/eatery websites, or any commercial premises website for that matter, which doesn't have any information on what time it closes other than "late ( Read more... )

Managed to design, configure, test, and implement a cross-WAN multi-backup, caching, and cross-site mirror and data transfer setup for the current employer ( Read more... )

Anyone else think Youtube needs mandatory tags for "The original audio has been replaced with a pop song", "Fake trailer", and "Videocamera pointed at TV playing original clip"? It'd be nice to be able to exclude those categories from displaying. EVER.

You know, I don't actually mind people taking the afternoon before Christmas off. I don't even mind entire offices taking the afternoon off ( Read more... )

After much prodding, I've found out that no, the invention marketer isn't actually interested in going ahead with the idea they expressed previous interest in ( Read more... )

As something of a minor incarnation of chaos, I do honestly try to keep it under wraps. I mostly play by the rules, even if I'm somewhat free about where I choose the rules from at any given moment. I go out of my way not to turn people's carefully constructed views of the world into bubbling, dripping insanity. I try and leave them approximately ( Read more... )

Just a handful, from the last couple of days ( Read more... )

Some of this is universal. A lot of it, however, is simply that the way things are done at the current workplace is massively incompatible with my own psychological preferences ( Read more... )

(continuing from yesterday's count: FOUR of five ( Read more... )