I’ll Leave The Clouds To The Birds
Today marks the third time in one year that I’ve been bitten by someone else’s mistake. I’ve tried several `accounting as a service’ providers and should have learned my lesson after the first bad experience. I appreciate dynamic infrastructure as a service as much as the next person. I love using tools like Xen to [...]
Broken Towels
I try to be tolerant, patient and understanding. I try, very very hard to not let trivial and mundane set backs influence the quality of my over all mood. Today, I have failed. When you purchase something, you have a reasonable expectation that the item will work as advertised. This gets a little sketchy when [...]
Wear down your battery, without charge?
Pardon the pun in the title, it was not intentional. Every mobile provider needs a number that simply plays a tone, or perhaps some kind of music in a loop. When you purchase a new phone, it comes with 1/4 charge .. since some batteries still have a memory, you need to wear down the [...]
To reiterate: No, I don’t use PayPal
This is one of the many reasons why I stopped using PayPal years ago. Somewhere along the line, I think that they forgot that they urge you to tie your PayPal account to your checking account, the same account that you use to pay your rent/mortgage. Then they want a back up funding source. So, [...]
Please adopt /etc/vendor
If you package and distribute any kind of POSIX operating system (i.e. it has an /etc), please consider adding a file named /etc/vendor with the following format to your offering: DistroName DistroVersion DistroDomain An Example: Foonix 1.23 foonix.com One of the biggest headaches for anyone hoping to support as many free operating systems as possible [...]
Fly me to the moon
I received a rather interesting e-mail today from a German company who shall remain nameless: Hello, We wish to construct a device to ensure the safety of children. The device will be worn like a watch by children, but can’t easily remove. Parent install our base station, to monitors the child. If the child is [...]
The best SPAM email title, ever
Short one: This is the best SPAM e-mail title ever: Vandals leave beating animals heart in cemetery. It was promptly deleted .. but funny.
What the hell, humanitarian dating?
This is going to be a very short rant. Please, anyone, describe any and all events that led to a dating site just for humanitarians. I can see some potential misconceptions, since we have vegetarians. Some people may therefore confuse humanitarians with cannibals. Has it gotten that hard to meet people who just want to [...]
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