Tag Archives: rant

crapdot

/. has been teetering on the verge for a while, but a few articles posted today/this week officially put it’s status as “jumping the shark”. My home page is now changed. Goodbye /. it was good knowing ya. Anyone have a suggestion for a new home page?

sick of snakes

If the SciFi channel digs up one more crap arse “attack of a snake” movie, I will scream!

Dips

Shannon was trying to find a phone number for MUSC tonight in the phone book. She was looking for a number to tell her what room a sick friend of hers was in. Looking in the business section, you would expect a largish block of MUSC numbers. Nope nothing.
Ok, so she looks [...]

Lunch

Braved Kitchen Fresh Chicken(aka KFC, aka Kentucky Fried Chicken) for lunch today. They had no wings, no chicken fingers, no biscuits and no ice.

Number Porting

Well I have two shiny new t616’s in my possession. Unfortunately, getting my old number port over isn’t going to well. It appears this what happens behind the scenes when you try a number port:

All the cell providers use a gateway run by the FCC.
Requests to port numbers go through this gateway.
A request [...]

Sign of the times

The Lab was in Starbucks this week and “Winter Wonderland” was being played. I generally detest the junk that gets played in SB’s and this was song was of the normal SB’ized ilk. I didn’t notice anything different with the song, but made this observation.
Original:

In the meadow we can build a snowman
Then pretend [...]

Apple Acronym Pollution

iCal
Mail
Emacs
X
Have I missed any?
Update: Yup, did miss one. Xserver.

.sig abuse

The most heinous abuse of a signature I’ve yet seen. The names have been changed to protect the umm… gifted.
The information contained in this email and any attachments to it:
(a) may be confidential and if you are not the intended recipient, any interference with, use, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and [...]

Bounced

Bouncing email messages that are infected has to be the stupidest thing ever.
Repeat after me, “the From: address can be forged, the From: address can be forged……..”.

Confidentiality Notice

This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for
the sole use of the intended recipients and may contain
confidential and/or legally privileged information.
If you are not the intended recipient, please contact
the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the
original message. Any unauthorized review, use,
disclosure, or distribution is prohibited.
Why? Because of Winders, Outlook and OE [...]