As reported earlier, I’m trying to write a C++ program to let me know whether my backup program is working properly or not.
Archive of entries posted on July 2007
The OS Wars II: Testing the Programming Waters
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language I’ve been doing software development for twenty-five years as a hobby, and the last nine commercially as [...]
Robbers get away with ATM machine…
…unfortunately for them, it was empty.
Megacryometeor?
What do you do when a fifty-pound chunk of ice crashes through your roof out of the clear blue sky?
Accidentally Amusing Spam
Here’s the latest installment in what is becoming a regular feature. The first in our hall of shame is a message with the subject line “Paraphernalia of high life – for less!” I thought it would be an ad for bongs and crack-pipes, and wondered how even spammers would get away with advertising that kind [...]
Rest in Peace, Weekly World News
It is with a sad heart that I read that the Weekly World News is on it’s deathbed. When I worked at the Postal Service, one of my colleagues brought a copy in every week so that people could keep up with the news of how President Clinton (and later Bush the Younger) were getting [...]
“Your plant just called to say ‘I’m thirsty!’”
Oh wonderful, yet another species that will call up and bug me to do things for it.
“ExxonMobil sends man 2,000 credit cards”
I hope he has a really big wallet.
“PC EZ-Bake Oven”
Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure that this is a hoax. Or maybe that’s “fortunately,” because if it weren’t, GoddessJ would insist that I buy one for her.
“Each Wore a Tiny Trench Coat”
You’ll have to skip down the page a little, but it’s worth the effort… fourteen “trained squirrels,” equipped with “espionage systems of foreign intelligence services,” were supposedly caught in Iran. Pull the other one, guys. I’m sure intelligence services would love to be able to do that kind of thing, but I really doubt the [...]