Month: October 2004

Destiny!!!! – This is hilarious. I guess it’s supposed to be a TV show about 5 people playing D&D.

Well, we did it! The weekend scuba course Beth and I took is now done, and we passed! That was the “confined water diving” section, which was half classroom lecture (and exams) and half instruction in the Front Range Community College swimming pool. Now we’ll get a referral letter from our instructor which will allow… Continue reading our first diving class

William Gibson: “‘Bush talks and thinks like Milosevic. He will lose, but the most disheartening thing is the prospect of his religio-nationalist reality-deniers clinging fiercely to the sacred glory of their Lost Cause for the next hundred years. We live under the Confederacy. We’re a podunk bunch of swaggering pious hicks.’ ” – Excerpt from… Continue reading William Gibson

About Google Desktop Search – Word on the street (OK, hallway conversation with someone who tried it) is that the new Google Desktop Search is very cool. I’m downloading it now, to try it on my work PC. I suspect it would be even more useful at home, though.

Webnote – an online tool for taking notes – Yet another amazing little web application someone created and is giving away for free. I’m not sure just what problem I have that this will solve, but it sure seems cool.

Wow, a lot’s happened in the past couple weeks where I work. The biggest thing for me personally was that I got a new job! I’m still working at Polycom, but I gave up my job as a QA Manager to become an engineer again. I’ve been doing technical management for 9 years now, and… Continue reading lots of changes in my work life

I’m selling this.

CNN.com – SpaceShipOne captures X Prize – Oct 4, 2004 – Wow, they did it! I know it sounds cruel or maybe pessimistic, but I figured that one of the 3 flights would end in disaster, given that this has never been done before.

I had the most infuriatingly bad technical support experience yesterday, with Hewlett-Packard. All I was trying to do was make my networked printer work with my new PC. Somewhere along the way in transferring stuff from the old to the new, Windows XP lost its printer settings. So I uninstalled the printer and the driver… Continue reading typical bad technical support

You know what I want for my Windows XP PC? I want some software that I can run and it’ll make other applications’ windows snap to a grid on the desktop. In other words, I want it to be that when I resize the window for any program, it’ll only resize in increments of N… Continue reading snap to grid software