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After years of not knowing any better, I finally learned the answer to, “Are you good with Excel?” It’s an emphatic, “No.” Of course I actually know my way around it really well. But, every single time, I have soon realized that I’d have been better off lying. “Hey Matt, I have this list of [...]
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28 Nov 2007Web developers, check it out. My one complaint is that this is an awkward assortment of things ranging from little JavaScript snippets to free (GPL) apps to proprietary, expensive applications. But there are some very cool ones in there. (Psst! Heatmap is running on this site! It’s going to take a while to build up [...]
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28 Nov 2007How does that happen? Note that this isn’t some carefully-sculpted masterpiece. This is how it came out of the freezer after I filled it with (filtered) water an hour ago.
This is way funnier than it should be. I do wonder who writes to their maid about the free soap, though, but it does quickly mushroom out of control.
Alright, this might be obscure, but think back to Arrested Development and one of the attorneys. One of my roommates just cited Robert Loblaw, JD, in his paper. Bob Loblaw. From the Bob Loblaw Law Blog. I can’t be the only one that remembers this!
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27 Nov 2007Last night I was in the police station getting data for the police logs. As I sat there in the lobby perusing the logs, some girl came in and approached the dispatch desk. “Hi, I don’t know what to do… This has never happened before. I think my car was towed.” A few minutes go [...]
Make ringers “polite.” If a phone ‘rings out’ (e.g., rings non-stop until voicemail kicks in), switch to silent mode automatically. Yes, this has flaws, like missing multiple calls because you missed one call. But sit here with my as my suitemate’s phone rings time and time again, with a really irritating ringtone while he’s gone, [...]
CNet posted a list of the “Top ten terrible tech products.” (The “products,” sadly, breaks their alliteration streak.) I’ll direct you to the funniest one ever—#2, the Barcode Battler. And, well, just watch it. The video starts off slow, but it’s well worth it.
This is my tenth consecutive post. Someone else post something!
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24 Nov 2007I’ve always like the idea of rewarding douchebaggery with more douchebaggery. And one bit of douchebaggery that really bugs me is that, running a webserver, it’s always getting requests for pages that have never existed. What’s going on is that people are probing for common vulnerabilities. I don’t have a /phpmyadmin, but I get multiple [...]