A Bar
I can forgive my hotel gym for skipping a bench press. But no pull-up bar at all? And every treadmill faces a wall of mirrors a foot away. I don't enjoy making eye contact with myself while I run.
Topic
rants
A collection of 70 posts
Business Suckage
I have a laptop full of my life's work and I want whole-disk encryption. PGP can't keep up with OS X releases, CheckPoint's site thwarts every attempt to pay them, and WinMagic won't take my gmail address. How is our economy still standing?
Managing Programmers
The single best summary I've found of the peculiarities of managing IT people, so good it reads like my own rants quoted back at me. Read "programmer" wherever it says "geek" and it lands even harder.
Cloud Computing
I can't wait until "cloud computing" gets shoved out of the vernacular. But given that "cyber-" still haunts government press releases two decades past its expiration, I suspect I'll be hearing this one for a long time.
Microsoft ... A Strategic Communicator
Microsoft's incoming VP of Corporate Communications praises the company's belief in "the strategic power of communications." Not innovation, not advancing the state of the art. Mostly FUD. It's amusing to watch someone so plainly fail to cover that up.
Not a Workout
To the lady on the treadmill beside me: 3.5mph for five minutes is not actually working out in any meaningful sense. Your singing did make me want to go faster, in an effort to escape, but being on a treadmill myself, it didn't help.
AT&T vs T-Mobile
Switching to AT&T for the iPhone meant leaving T-Mobile, whose customer service was always great and always available. I called AT&T about a feature. They were closed. Closed? Why don't they just shut off cell service after 8pm too?
The Escalator Standers
Getting to my desk means two escalators and a flight of stairs. I always keep walking on the escalators, and I've formed many sweeping generalizations about the people who just stand there and block everyone in.
My Mouth
Two cops were walking around my house. I went out to ask why; turns out it was an alarm I don't have, at a number that wasn't mine. Another exciting day in Cherokee county.
FedEx Ground Sucks, Day 10
It finally arrived at 19:18 this evening, much to my surprise, and only a full week late on a two-day delivery. Never again.