okay, bitch time again.
when i download your program, and i save it to my downloads folder, and i want to find it later…
i want to find it listed alphabetically by product name. this means, do NOT:
- put “Setup…” in front of the product name
- put “Install…” in front of the product name
- put “YourCompanyName…” in front of the product name
and absolutely do not ever, ever, EVER, just call it: “setup.exe”
i could continue to rant about “online” installers not recognizing that you use a proxy, but i should spare the reader this discomfort. after all, proxies are remarkable new technologies, they’ve only been around for … decades.
Posted on August 2nd, 2007 by mike
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traffic – trafficking. i know the K probably makes you pronounce this correctly (instead of “traffi” + “sing”) but really, where did we get the K? did the King put it there?
Posted on July 23rd, 2007 by mike
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as i’m sometimes quite amused by the spam i receive, most often it is mundane. though today i received a message:
From: Hiroo Pragmatist
now, finally, that’s someone i can buy my black market ersatz male erectile enhancement pharmaceuticals from!
perhaps it’s a tongue-in-cheek nod to Neal Stephenson? (his protagonist hero in Snow Crash was named… Hiro Protagonist. cute.) perhaps not.
either way – if your willy doesn’t wonka, get the pills. that’s what a Pragmatist would say.
Posted on July 19th, 2007 by mike
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saw this one outside a restaurant the other day. pretty impressive piece of machinery, really.
perhaps in comparison to a full-size tractor trailer, this might count as “compact*”
* in all fairness, this particular restaurant seemed to only have “compact” spaces. amusing, nonetheless.
Posted on July 13th, 2007 by mike
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Posted on July 9th, 2007 by mike
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why must we only be resilient? my friend pat wants to skip over the reaction part and just be silient.
since resilient comes from the latin saliere (to leap, so resilient is “to leap back”) after you eliminate the retrograde, then you can achieve silience simply by leaping. constantly.
Posted on June 27th, 2007 by mike
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if it had happened to me only once today, i would have let it slide. but this is twice. shame on you!
if you are a meeting organizer, and you actually want people to attend your dial-in meeting, you need to meet one of the following criteria:
- configure your conference call dial-in # so that it does not play hold music at your participants until you, the master of all you survey, activate the call.
- why are you denying your participants the opportunity to talk amongst themselves until you arrive? you’re an egotistical jerk. turn that off, too.
- shouldn’t YOU be the first person to call into your own meeting? get your primadonna ass on the phone first.
now that i think about it, you should be doing at least 2 of these things. now. NOW.
Posted on June 26th, 2007 by mike
Filed under: business | 3 Comments »
one of the things i find fun on a daily basis is using predictive text input on my phone, and finding sets of words made up from the same keypresses. yes, i’m easily amused. anyway.
i was logged in to IM from my phone this morning, texting my wife about trying out Google Reader in offline mode (which didn’t seem to work for me, even with “google gears” installed. anyhow…) i had said i was reading what i already loaded in the browser, but i hadn’t yet tried to switch to another clog. why is “blog” not in my predictive text dictionary? dunno.
okay, enough with this post. get back to reading your other clogs.
Posted on June 25th, 2007 by mike
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