Wed, 31 May 2006
Spanker
Nice:
"All pretty little girls deserve to be spanked once a day"story 31 May 13:30 | /links | 0 comment(s)
Tue, 30 May 2006
Top 10 Signs. . .
I got this via fark. . . Top 10 Signs of the Impending U.S. Police State. 30 May 12:58 | /links | 0 comment(s)
Wed, 24 May 2006
Schools and Spam
A frequent problem that gets reported to our customer service here at work is one with schools and their spam blockers. I guess a lot of schools do some sort of outsourcing with their IT- and I'm using outsourcing loosely- I mean either a central office runs the mail for the satellite schools or a hosted service (business). I'm basing a lot of this off the conversations I've had with various customers. I'd have to guess that schools do this because of their bureaucratic nature, lack of budgets, or lack of staff, or maybe lack of skill at that job-level. Anyway, given that, the following story I saw on fark.com doesn't surprise me at all:
There it was in the e-mail spam filter, along with offers to invigorate both your bank account and your sex life: an offer to save the Cobb County schools $250,000. But this message was for real.story. (If it asks for registration, use bugmenot.com) What does surprise me is how dense school finance director Robert Morales is. Le sigh. I'll stop ranting about spam soon, I've just been dealing with it at work a lot lately.. . . 24 May 12:50 | /tech | 0 comment(s)
School officials are blaming an overeager junk-mail filter for capturing and killing a Kennesaw businessman's bid to provide telephone services to the system. It seems the part of the filter that watches for pornographic material was offended by the use of terms such as "long distance."
Tue, 23 May 2006
AusTex PCS Has Bad Service
AusTex PCS Has Bad Service. As someone wrote:
Four months later they found my post and replied. If the little bit of effort it took to write a response was spent trying to better the situation THEN -- we wouldn't be here.newer - original post They're just interested in CYA (or CTA) by playing he-said-she-said. A commenter noted:
Still. What is this accomplishing? You're playing he-said-she-said, and you're further damaging your reputation. Who would want to patronize an establishment who argues with its former customers? On the internet of all places?I agree with that last comment from that post 23 May 16:33 | /links | 3 comment(s)
I personally consider $30 pretty cheap to keep a customer. Is this harangue worth more than that?
Mon, 22 May 2006
10,000 Steps?
Well, I thought walking from here to here would be more than 10,000 steps. Nope. I'm glad I didn't put any money on that. FYI- it's only 7501 steps (according to my goofy pedometer/step counter). At least I was over 10K for the day. 22 May 21:05 | /general | 0 comment(s)
Los Ochenta!
This post is dedicated my "Three Ladeez". You know who you are. (No, Marc, you're not one of them). Massive index of 80s videos on youtube! Everything from The Cult, Rush (maestros entre maestros!), Icicle Works, PiL, etc. . . . wow. Let the time wasting begin! 22 May 14:31 | /links | 1 comment(s)
Fri, 19 May 2006
Voting in PA?
Interested in electronic voting? It seems Patrick spent a day as an election judge. Interesting writeup. I half-expected an in-depth look at how the machines go wrong but knowing Mr W, that'll come later. Or maybe on Frontline. . . 19 May 13:41 | /links | 0 comment(s)
Tagging and Blosxom
Well, now that I (think) have trackback spam under control (/me crosses his fingers), I dropped in two more plugins into Blosxom. They both almost do the same thing - but basically I added tagging to the blog and I added a plugin to allow path-based tag urls to work. You can read more about the plugins here. Amazing how much you can get done just by catching up with the Open Source community. . . . Oh, one other thing- I added a tag cloud below to see how it'd work. It's under the ClustrMap. It may get ugly and out of control, but I thought I'd play with it for a while. . . 19 May 00:02 | /tech | 1 comment(s)
Wed, 17 May 2006
Quick DVD Roundup 5/17
Some quick DVD "reviews". I'm introducing a new ranking- the dreaded NR. In a way it's worse than a 0. It's like that hell place for unbaptized babies that you gentiles have set up.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - NRWow, I didn't even finish the DVD. Le yawn. Jarhead - *
A for effort and one star for Peter Saaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrsgaaaarrrrrd. National Treasure - *
The secular DaVinci Code. Stupid movie with a stupid plot but still- you *know* what you're getting into when you watch this. Goofy music too. I sort of want to give this a 0 star rating, but in a way, I wanted to watch a cheesy "adventure" and got what I was after. Barely one star - just barely (mostly for Diane Kruger) Layer Cake - **
I watched it again and decided to raise it's rating a bit. Alien vs Predator - 0
I like Lance Henriksen a lot, but even that couldn't save this flick. Pee-eww. Blade:Trinity - 0
Uggh- and I was hoping that this would be good too. :( The Village - ***
Yeah yeah- we all knew what was going on. Yeah yeah- we knew what the twist would be. But you know what? I still liked it. I thought the performances were good and I liked the story. Sure it's not perfect, but I really think that Shyamalan's movies are throwbacks. That's the only way I can describe it- maybe throwbacks isn't the right word though. But even his less-meaty movies like this one are like well rounded and fleshed-out (but just barely) Twilight Zone episodes. Adrien Brody should've rented What's Eating Gilbert Grape for his prepwork though. It would've helped him. Sideways - **
I finally watched this. Two words: Over Rated. Or is that one word?
Two stars for the acting though. Stander - **
I have a weird love/hate relationship with Deborah Kara Unger. Sometimes I get creeped out by her, and I don't know why. Sometimes, I'm shamed to admit- I hunger the Unger. Sometimes she's a character in a movie I watch and I really shouldn't write anything about her but I should write about the actual movie. Sometimes I do that, sometimes I don't. This is one of those times. Interesting flick.
stander wp article I'll leave you with this:
17 May 16:52 | /movies | 4 comment(s)
Sun, 14 May 2006
Comment Spam Follow Up
Well, I did a bit of searching and tinkering after Todd had recommended using the Akismet API to combat comment spam in my original post. I got a bit sidetracked though- I thought about CAPTCHAs and switching plugins, I reviewed WordPress quickly (you need a WP key to use the Akismet API) and even thought about switching platforms because I thought WP was quite nice. But I decided to give Kevin Scaldeferri's Writeback/Akismet plugin for Blosxom a whirl. I'll leave the comments open for a week or so to see how it goes. If not, I'll think about using something else. 14 May 13:34 | /tech | 3 comment(s)
Fri, 12 May 2006
Lolz nshit omgwtfbbq
siddensc: is it wrong that I want to pay to watch the Island in high def to see scarlett's boobies?
eltejanox: yes
siddensc: hmmm
siddensc: but it's a good wrong
eltejanox: barely
siddensc: heh
eltejanox: I should start writing movies
eltejanox: I take craps that have better plot twists
siddensc: you can't even write a blog
12 May 17:36 | /humor | 1 comment(s)
End of Week1 at Spear
Mmm, one week's already gone by. Here's what I've learned this week:
-There's a huge difference between the 1 and the 1aX or 1bX (or 38 38x, etc)
-I finally realized where all the hotties have been hiding! They all work downtown! [no offense to the south bay]
-I need to bring sunglasses so it's not obvious when I'm staring at someone on the bus
-Speaking of the bus, man, those are self-esteem machines. What do I mean by that? Well, no matter how bad I feel or down I am, there will be at least 5 bigger losers on the bus. Thanks Muni!
-Offices are excellent places to spread disease. Hopefully I'll be over by cold by
-I'll think of more things after lunch 12 May 13:18 | /general | 0 comment(s)
Thu, 11 May 2006
Comment Spam
Well, I knew it was too good to last. The plugin I'm using for bloxsom's comments is called writeback. It has (supposedly) some built-in blacklisting of commenter's ip address, but I found out this morning (34 comment spam messages) that it doesn't work too well. I may have to disable comments on the blog unless I can either fix this plugin, or find a new one. :( tags: blosxom, comment spam, writeback 11 May 12:33 | /tech | 5 comment(s)
Tue, 09 May 2006
Good Morning!
A funny thing happened on the way to work. Well, not really funny. . . But this wouldn't be the way I'd want to start my day.
The whole thing could have been avoided (read the pic descriptions), but it's the guy in the truck's fault I guess. But I'm not a lawyer, I only play one on TV. 09 May 11:31 | /random | 2 comment(s)
Sun, 07 May 2006
New Cube And Angie on a Horse
A rare Sunday post. . . But I'm downtown testing the phone lines from my new desk. I don't want to come in to any fun surprises tomorrow.
A lot of the place is still being put together. I feel bad for the ops guys, they're being run ragged, but they'll make it. I just hope they get some time off. They've been working all weekend, and they'll be working all night from the looks of things.
HappyHour was pretty fun, thanks to all of those of you that showed up. (Booo to Marcie who got an upset tummy after the DIY Nacho Bar at CYBS)
Afterwards Pak, Julie, Angie and I headed to my favorite restaurant for some food. Dizzam it was good. I got tipsy too. Wheeeeeee!
Who Furnt Wozy? It got ALL Cibusy Zeprd3 in that shit.Tomorrow's post--mariachis in SoSF!
07 May 17:38 | /general | 2 comment(s)
Thu, 04 May 2006
Interesting Blog
Here's an interesting blog. It's a site where readers can anonymously confess to unethical acts they may have commited (in a business setting). The interesting thing is that this bring a lot of traffic to their site, but how many of the readers will read the other posts, or find out more about the parent company and their services. Will any of those few who do use or buy those services? 04 May 21:12 | /tech | 0 comment(s)
Wed, 03 May 2006
US WC Team Named
Arena announced the WC lineup yesterday. Jimmy Conrad made the list of defenders, and Clint Dempsey made it as well. more 03 May 12:13 | /futbol | 0 comment(s)
Office Move
Well, it looks like the office is finally moving after all. Our last day up here in Mill Valley is on Friday.It's going to be a busy day of packing but then on Monday we start at the new place. This will be the first time I've actually lived *and* worked in SF since moving here. It should be interesting. 03 May 12:01 | /general | 1 comment(s)
Mon, 01 May 2006
Oozinator
Uh, is this just a bit more than distrubing? Maybe just a bit? 01 May 15:42 | /humor | 0 comment(s)
