rant
Through the wringer
This week was the week from hell. It just seemed like everyone was overworked, overtired, overstressed, and trying not to let it get to them too much. Maybe its the run-up to one of the biggest holiday weekends of the year, but work just seemed not to let up all week.
Ugh, glad to be out [...]
Ugh - comment spam
Just cleared out 60+ spam comments. What garbage - “Good job guys!”, or “Great site…”. Please.
Thank-you to Matt and crew at Automattic for Akismet!
Rebutting some Scoble posts
Now, I’ve subscribed to Scoble’s blog for almost 2 years or so and I really enjoy his writing style and much of what he has to say. Though in the past few days he’s written a few posts I need to comment on.
Maybe it’s because I took the weekend off to spend with the [...]
Ed at Pocket PC Thoughts goes OT
Now I read PPCT a lot, they’re always a good source of info, commentary and the like, but once in awhile one of the mods goes off topic and starts a thread that simply shows how ignorant the population can be.
Ed Hansberry rants on how Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage tool is akin to “big brother” [...]
Mac User - A Response
Ok, there is this anonymous commenter on the ‘Activation servers overloaded at Microsoft‘ post on Scobleizer that really dishes it out, but fails to link back to anything of substance, or to give an actual name. I was going to post the following on the comments there, but decided I did not really want to [...]
Beta 2 of Office 2007 & Vista
Hey, I just want to point out to anyone who is trying to download either Windows Vista Beta 2 or Office 2007 Beta 2 that the download servers are getting hit hard. I’ve read some comments around the blogosphere that MS did not plan well for the release, that there should have been more servers [...]
IE 7 Plays Fair
Well its nice to see a little common sense prevail. Check out the news at TechWeb:
U.S. Dismisses Google Complaint, Says IE 7 Plays Fair
I’ve been following this silly attempt of Google’s for the past few weeks and it really disappointed me that they would sink to that level Google has brought some innovative products [...]
Team evaporation
Its amazing how one new individual added to a team can start to disolve the well understood relationships within. This is happening at work, and unfortuntely, I don’t think I can work with the result. We’ve added a new manager for one are of our department, and he seems to be too intent on playing [...]
RIMarkable on Visto Post
RIMarkable has a post on the same Visto story I talked about earlier today. I still can’t figure it out, and have the same question as Robb Dunewood - who actually uses their technology to get mobile email? There are dozens of people that we all know that use BlackBerry’s, some that have Palm Treos, [...]
Visto - A Vulture
So here comes wave two of the patent suite against RIM. ZD Net is reporting about Visto suing RIM over their BlackBerry mobile email system. This is the same company that is engaged in a lawsuit against Microsoft - and the same one who did a cross-license agreement with NTP (who just settled with RIM [...]
