- 10 years ago I had just started working at an Internet provider and was very glad they didn’t want me in the server room at midnight for Y2K.
- I just ordered tickets to Avatar in IMAX 3D. It actually *was* cheaper to see Xanadu on stage, even including parking!
- Made it into Avatar. Got surprisingly decent seats considering how long the line was. We’ll miss midnight, so Happy New Year!
- Overheard waiting for the movie: “If you lost an eye, would you get a glass eye or an eye patch?” “I’d get an eye patch and grow a beard!”
Tag: Split
Case of Mondays: Usability and Chkdsk
- Usability question: Is it better for a form to auto-detect the credit card type from its number, or have the user select it as an error check? (Consensus on Twitter & Facebook was to have the user select it.)
- Yay, the PC isn’t totally crashed! Grabbed a current backup & now running chkdsk. Work last week, home this week. Pattern?
- Chkdsk is FINALLY running. If you get a “cannot open volume for direct access” error trying to run it on Windows XP, try running
msconfigand selecting a Diagnostic startup.
Spam, Activism, N’okay
- Project Honeypot: 1 Billion Spammers Served!
- Wow. Without “activist judges” to blame, anti-gay-marriage *ahem* activists in DC are complaining about activist…legislators.
- It’s almost 2010. Why do OK/Cancel boxes STILL pop up while I’m typing & accept my “input?” I’m not sure what I just confirmed. Or canceled. Or whatever it is that it thought I told it.
LHC and an Email Massage
- LHC Update: Another power failure. This is just getting silly. (Oh, and also: World still here.)
- Search hit: “thunderbird thinks this massages is a scam”
Hazards of Keyless Ignition and Office Chairs.
- Today I learned that keyless ignition makes it easy to accidentally leave your car running. Good thing it was only 5 minutes. The fact that it idles silently (no need to run the motor unless it’s charging the battery) was probably a necessary factor too.
- Amusing: Apple has released Safari 4.0.4. Seems appropriate for a web browser.
- By Fox “The Cancelator” standards, waiting 4 episodes to cancel Dollhouse Season 2 is generous.
- WTF? I just tweaked my *other* shoulder doing nothing more exciting than reaching for my mouse. Nowhere near as badly, at least!
- Right shoulder seems OK. Left shoulder still recovering from whatever the heck I did to it yesterday. The dangers of…office chairs?