Archive for March, 2008

The Departmental Newsletter (You’ve lost your mind)

Monday, March 31st, 2008

I've worked with quite a few IT departments in my life, and I'm always amazed when somebody gets the brilliant idea to publish a departmental newsletter. I have no idea what motivates this. Who in the world cares? Would you read an accounts payable departmental newsletter? "10 exciting facts about ...

How many terms can we have for message board?

Friday, March 28th, 2008

It's a Web 2.0 world people and you need to get educated. Actually I don't know what Web 2.0 is. I think it's any web site with Ajax. (No, not the cleaner). But I'm wondering how many Web 2.0 terms we can have for the good old message board. Blog, ...

Shower Arts

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Just wrote the chorus to an 80s Hair Metal song in the shower: Love warriors. We’re the fighters of the night. Love warriors. We’re the ones who’ll win the fight. Love warriors. Your gratitude is assumed, no need to comment.

Can we please make faxing go away?

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

It's hard to find adjectives to effectively describe how I feel about the fax machine. Archaic, horrible, terrible, annoying, slow, stupid, and mind numbingly awful. Well maybe not hard at all. Why is this technology still around? Haven't we sped up everything exponentially since 1980 when this pig started getting ...

Another in a long list of why I hate car dealerships

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

The manufacturer of my Honda Accord recommends an oil change at 30,000 miles. My dealership wanted to change the oil, rotate and balance the tires, disassemble and inspect the brakes, replace the belt, swap out the transmission fluid, re-align the headlights, re-apply the undercoating, replace the air filter, replace the ...

Blister wrap continues to claim victims

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Why must everything I buy be packaged in this deadly material? Do we as a society hate our fellow man so much? Do we need a material that when you cut it becomes sharper than whatever your cutting it with? My scars from blister wrap, and there are many, run ...