One of the support groups for a small product has been having issues getting support requests to the author, primarily as spam is getting really really clever ( Read more... )

New Monitors setup ( Read more... )

Communication Styles and Engineering mindsetsI tend to get preoccupied with architectural thoughts, how does the world work, how can it be made better, maximizing workflow and utility. Many engineers think this way, but takes shape in amusingly different forms. My dad called yesterday and said "hey write email more often" and I was like internally ( Read more... )

``Intertwingularity is not generally acknowledged -- people keep pretending they can make things deeply hierarchical, categorizable and sequential when they can't. Everything is deeply intertwingled ( Read more... )

Being self employed I get the rewards of doing all my own IT and tech support, yesterday was a busy day in the IT department.

( Why is it that PC's are like chinese puzzle boxes? )

I've been wanting to bridge my task management with Qtask for awhile. Last night I took a look at the XML file spec, which looks very easy to parse, and posting to the dev list with questions ran into this ( Read more... )

So I ordered the monitors, but the process is making standing in line at the airport difficult.

Tier1: The Credit Card CompanyInitially I couldn't place the order due to 'credit card declined' despite the card having a near zero balance. I tried again thinking I had a wrong address or number, same thing declined. So I get out a second card ( Read more... )

Geek: Portrait mode and MultiMonitors Galore: a 1600x3600 display ~$1K

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So using Snipe I won a bid on a used Dell laptop, price after shipping is $1012. For comparison, a few weeks ago looking for this laptop with similar features, the same prices (new) were around $1400-$1600, new 1800-2200. New off the dell website are $1835 + tax....so it pays to be patient! My former laptop repair would have been $600. So given ( Read more... )

Geek: Bed the size of Texas, and Warm as TahitiSince getting a split CA-King, I've kept the beds split. But decided to unite them as originally intended. It's HUGE. I can't even touch all sides of it when stretching out ( Read more... )