Does anybody remember the Irwin Allen TV series Time Tunnel? It’s so perfectly inane and silly, but still enjoyable as a guilty pleasure. It’s now available as DVD sets! Hurrah!
Browsing Posts published in May, 2010
Time Tunnel – precursor to Quantum Leap?
May 31, 2010
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Getting Google Calendar Sync to work with Outlook 2010 « James Manning’s Blog. This is a great article and will get you up and running in no time – thanks James!
Newsletter from the United States Association of Reptile Keepers: [added emphasis mine] The Wildlife Research Center of the US Department of Agriculture has recently released a peer reviewed scientific paper in Biological Invasions that casts serious doubt on wild claims made by the US Geological Survey that Burmese pythons are poised to spread out of South [...]
With the advent of portable devices such as cell phones, netbooks, and self-contained video games, an interesting thing has been happening. Users of these devices seem to be drawing inward and have less and less regard for the real world around them. Texting (sending text messages via a cell phone) has really taken off in [...]
Email disclaimers
May 26, 2010
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We’ve all seen these at the bottom of an email. There are many variations on the theme, but generally they go something like this: DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. This message is privileged and confidential. If the reader [...]
At the severe risk of being off-handedly dismissed by everyone as “an old fart”… I have been to quite a few rock concerts in my years. Some are good, and some are bad, but the good ones are so good that you keep trying and are sometimes rewarded by another good one. My wife and I went [...]
GoDaddy hosting – garbage!
May 24, 2010
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I have been using GoDaddy as a registrar for years, and have always been very pleased with the service. So, then I thought I’d give their hosting a shot. Bad idea. The performance is consistently horrible, and their dumb server throws errors for no good reason. I finally got fed up with them and moved [...]
One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages. This is quite amusing. Well, to geeks anyway. If you aren’t a geek, don’t bother. It won’t make sense.
Spell Check – the buck doesn't stop here
May 10, 2010
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I saw this one today on a geeky website: (emphasis mine) “Calling this the database layer or the persistence layer loses site of the fact that the model might be virtually any time of information in virtually any format.” After re-reading this a few times, it becomes obvious that “site” should be “sight”, and “time” [...]
Beeping Gas Pumps
May 6, 2010
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Does Chevron and Shell really get enjoyment out of pointlessly annoying customers?
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