This is a bit from Download Squad’s review of Wine Doors:
After playing around with the latest version of Wine Doors, we have mixed feelings about this program. While it looks stunning, and seems to have some pretty powerful macro based installation technology, it doesn’t actually work. Obviously, this realization was the biggest disappointment for us. […]
The special MIS alarm bells started going off. We put on our fireproof suits, checked the monitors, armed the sniffers, and got out diagnosis hats on. The network had slowed to a crawl.
Clipboard.
check
Ergo keyboard.
check
Phillips screwdriver.
check
With everything in place, we checked the logs and determined that one computer was sucking up humongous amounts of […]
Yes, we were all getting bored because there haven’t been enough work stories lately. So here I am with more True Tales.
This morning there was an emergency situation involving the internet.When the tech asked what the problem was, she told him the internet was broken.
Broken?Yes.The internet?Yes.Please show me.
It only goes to Dell.
In case […]
After very little deliberation at all, Pennsylvania has changed the state bird.
The state license plate was changed last year to a brain with a red slash through it.
The new state bird is the Cloud.
My last entry, Driving While Talking, made a few very good points. I have to say they’re very good points, as I came up with them. If I didn’t think they were good points, there would be very little point in putting them up here, would there?
Point 1: too many idiots drive […]
A while back there was an initiative to install starter interlock devices on cars so you’d have to take a breathalyzer test before your car would start. Fortunately this did not pass, although I remember it being ordered on a case by case basis.
The latest bit of helpful (and redundant) legislation comes from Pennsylvania’s […]
A report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) (Link PDF) states that of the 454,000 complaints the FCC received between 2003 and 2006, 86 percent of the investigations were closed without any action being taken, and no indication of why.
oh, that’s easy… they didn’t own huge communication conglomerates or say FUCK or bare a […]
Pennsylvania is suing a website that promised to help people get access to unclaimed money they were owed after investigators determined that the site was convincing people to pay $24.95 for a membership by telling them they had unclaimed money, no matter who they were. Investigators used the scientific method of testing whether Spiderman, Batman […]
Remember the doctor pushing to add internet addiction as an official mental disorder? In a recent journal article, he’s now saying that one sign of such a disorder would be people who send lots of text messages.
