With the government budget sequestration, many departments in our government have been forced to make budget cutbacks and adjustments (and not before time, if you ask me – governmental spending has been out of control for years). As a private … Continue reading
I finally bid my 2005 Prius adieu. It had 280,000+ miles on it, and the battery was starting to fade (for the second time). I decided that I didn’t want to be the owner of an older Prius and have to … Continue reading
Something I saw today happened to trigger a memory of the classic Spirograph toy we had as kids. This was just too cool, and my sister and I had hours of fun with it. It was very simple, gears and … Continue reading
If you are like me, you don’t use the windows recycling bin for much at all. Sure, occasionally restoring a file deleted in error, but that’s usually minutes after deleting it and smacking your forehead. If stuff has been in … Continue reading
This is a very annoying Windows 2008 R2 bug which was reported way back in 2010 but still there is no fix from Microsoft. Here’s an example from the educational sector. Here’s the symptom: You have a bunch of users … Continue reading
Nicely done, Microsoft! Um, but… With the MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) subscription, you get a certain amount of Azure computing time to play with to learn how it works and develop applications. Pretty neat stuff! One issue was that if … Continue reading
We had the “baby boomers”, then “Generation X”, then “Generation Y”… I think today’s crop of kiddies should be called “Generation Bubble Wrap” (or “Generation BW”). It appalls me how ridiculously over protective parents are these days. Surprisingly enough, I … Continue reading
A friend of mine sent me this link: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/a-python-tried-to-kill-my-son-mother-20120101-1pgxg.html – Thanks Mike 🙂 As I’m the local reptile expert, he asked me if I believed the story (we all know that the media would never lie or get anything wrong, … Continue reading
I ran across this today in another blog – cracked me up and scared me at the same time! This was written by a guy who worked at Wal-Mart for a while: For example, I worked for three weeks in … Continue reading
Having the mouse activate things (like help on what to put in a text field) just by hovering over some spot is pretty neat. However, with this being used more and more, it’s starting to cross over from neat to … Continue reading
Inane World 