If for some bizarre reason you want to try my patience and lose respect in my eyes, plead stupidity. Call yourself an idiot, especially when it comes to computers. Be whiny. Do all of this at the eleventh hour. Then ask me to do your work for you. I'll do it once just to shut you up. After that if I have time I'll show you how to make the ( Read more... )

The only thing worse than debugging someone else's poorly documented code is debugging someone else's poorly documented, computer generated code.

*headdesk* *headdesk* *headdesk*

Bonus: no database relationship diagram! Wheeeee!

I propose that anyone making twice my salary should be able to send emails and remember/be able to find the URL to their department's website* all by themselves ( Read more... )

I've lost the latest battle against the Fire Safety guys. Unless it's because my ears are popping and my hearing's that much better, the only Fire Safety guy here today seems to have his walkie-talkie cranked up to 11. I can hear the squawking clear as day through my office door. (FWIW, I can also hear the guy's radio playing, but only when my ( Read more... )

I'm still freakin' sick! Still coughing, sniffling, froggy-throated, and nose-blowing, and now with headaches. Whee!

Granted, I feel a little better each day, but c'mon already!

To make amends for the above whining, here's a wonderfully silly "Life on Mars" vid. No angst here, no sirree!

For those of you who don't know, I work in a small, one-story building on a college campus. The Fire Safety guys occupy the offices down the hall. They carry walkie-talkies. It's part of their job. The chatter from the devices varies in frequency, but it's always loud because one of the guys is hard of hearing. Even with my door closed I can ( Read more... )

If you needed help with your taxes, you'd hire an accountant.

If your car was making funny noises, you'd take it to a mechanic.

If you needed promotional print materials, you'd have a graphic designer do the work.

Why is it that out of these three specialists, the majority of clients backseat drive only the designer's work?

*headdesk*
*headdesk*
*headdesk*

That is all.

Server Error in '/' Application.

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
*bangs head against monitor ( Read more... )

...regarding the latest "OMG! Look what our lack of leadership and general incompetence have wrought upon us! What are you going to do to fix it?" problem from a certain department:

[Department], at Cornell University they have an incredible piece of scientific equipment known as the tunneling electron microscope. Now, this microscope is so ( Read more... )