Archive for the 'Rants' Category

Not Wasting Enough Time on Email?

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

If so, then check out 3D Mailbox, a ridiculous concept where your email is represented as individual avatars that you interact with in a 3D environment, directing them into cabanas (folders), send them to the back alley (trash) or send them to be eaten by sharks (spam folder). Honestly, who thought this was a good […]

The Petty Crime Spree Continues

Monday, June 11th, 2007

First someone went into our minivan and stole the loose change from our ashtray.
Then someone stole the garden lights from my back yard.
Now someone has smashed out the rear windshield of my minivan!

All this on the day before I have to head out of the country. As they said in Disney’s Hercules, ‘That’s it, we’re […]

Vista Still Not Motivating

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

I was going past a Compucenter in Omaha today with a sign showing that the store was having a closeout. Inside I found Windows Vista on sale for 50% off. I saw Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade for $130 and yet even at that price I didn’t see the appeal.
I’m not sure if I’m unique but […]

Who Steals Garden Lights?

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

I’m on week three of a four week business trip and my wife IMs me to inform me that someone went into the back yard and stole all twenty solar garden lights from my flower beds.
Seriously, who steals garden lights?
One or two I would write off as dumb kids, but twenty indicates enough planning to […]

The Fun Never Ends

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

So what happened? Well, two days ago I noticed connection issues while trying to create a blog post on MySQL’s new enterprise offering (more on that later). I sent in a support request to Tera-Byte, my colocation provider. After a while I checked and noticed that I could connect via SSH, but that the server […]