I use JP Software’s 4NT, a wonderful and much-improved command shell (it replaces Windows’ CMD.EXE). JP Software released a major version of it about six or seven months ago, and there have been about a dozen minor updates since. Unfortunately, they don’t have any way to automatically check when these updates come out… you have [...]
Archive of entries posted on 22nd April 2007
Identity Theft Prevention and Attorney’s Advice
My favorite aunt sent me this e-mail a few weeks ago. I’ve been trying to think where I could put it that I’d be sure I could find it again whenever anyone needed it, and this seems to be the perfect place. I’ve cleaned up the text, but made no other changes to it.
All You Ever Need to Know About Microsoft
Chris Linfoot has discovered Microsoft’s secret sauce. (Apologies for all the posts today, I’ve got many years of backlogged stuff in my head. I’ll slow down soon, honestly.)
Customer Service
The bank that I use (which shall remain nameless) is supposed to have gotten the highest customer rating for their online presence, as far back as seven years ago. Unfortunately, that doesn’t extend to their online customer service, which is pretty much what you’d expect from a large software company. Case in point:
Judging Art
One of the sites I read regularly is the Dilbert Blog, by Dilbert creator Scott Adams. Today he posted an interesting piece on judging art… interesting because I’ve never understood the appeal of certain kinds of art. But even after reading it, I have to say that I still don’t understand most of what passes [...]
Cats in Things They’re Not Supposed to Be (a.k.a. “Cat Me If You Can”)
This is an amusing music video I found a couple days ago. It says it’s “for Canada’s premiere folk/funk/meth-rock/R&B fusion group,” a group called Agile Like This. The song is very catchy, and the video is pretty funny in places. (NSFW warning: a little profanity and a single barely-racy picture.)
Hello world!
It’s a Sunday, and I didn’t have anything more interesting to do, so I’ve finally decided to install some blog software and give the world even more useless commentary. Fun, eh? According to Aaron Brazell, there are two kinds of bloggers: “those who blog for themselves, and those who write for others.” I’m one who [...]