Archives, eh
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# Wish I was 75, eh
Medicare Gold? I thought they were against a two-tiered medicare system.
On the other hand, the Labor Party site uses PHP, and the Liberal Party site crashes my browser. Guess I know who I’ll be voting for ;- )
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# Satisfied
And now I can die as well, satisfied.
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# Books books books
I’m in a quandry. Two books arrived today and I don’t know which to read first. Worse, a third is due to arrive sometime soon. Well, it will if Boomerang Books don’t want me to pay them a visit with the lightsabre.
Today, The seventh book of the Dark Tower series, cunningly called "The Dark Tower", arrived from Amazon. Okay, Steve, you can die now. You’re allowed to now. I haven’t touched it, D said I have to finish off the design for her new web project before I am allowed to read it.
And then she comes home with "Eats, Shoots & Leaves". As you all know, grammar and I, we have a love-hate relationship going on. I want to have good grammar, but grammar spurns me. It’s like I’m back in high school and Lisa Hale is playing the role of Grammar. I shall devour this book, just like I stalke…well, I’ve said too much.
And anytime soon, "Imagining Australia" will be arriving. (/me stares at BoomerangBooks.com.au and then glances meaningfully at Mr Bad Muthafucka) I’m quite looking forward to this one.
And then D goes and reminds me that "Market Forces" is waiting for at the library. It’s been a long time since I routinely read three or four books simultaneously, but dammit, I may have to start again.
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# Blowing off steam
The Your Poor Bastard hit today. There was plenty of blame, and my, didn’t a lot of it get deflected at me, the guy who never wrote the software and has never changed the code that now has a “issue”. And hey, look. The guy who was involved in the testing of said code, the guy sho supplies the data and should have verified that we were processing it correctly. Look at him throw and deflect blame.
The innocent were hunted down like scurvy dogs.
I was not there to cover my arse. I was there to fix the problem. More fool I. I said “I was told the message sending was fire & forget, that there was no way to get a delivery receipt back from Your Unnamed Company”. That was a mistake. The Advertising Agency that is technically our employer (we sub-contract to provide a customer database and message sending capability, essentially) piped up and said “We weren’t involved in that” and was rewarded with laughs and placating looks.
Praise for the Non-Participants
They ignored me when I point out there was data missing from update files, and then suggested that our processing of the update files was incorrect. They made a suggestion on how to fix a reporting issue and then talked over me when I tried to explain that it wouldn’t work.
In the shortest fashion I can possibly use, I lost. I lost the meeting. I was one of the two Players but I got handed the Con suit the instant Oulook popped the meeting request. I mis-detected the Agenda, I Lost. If I was a drinking man, I’d go home and shoot rum all night. If I was a gambling man, I’d already be sitting in front of some flashing, beeping machine feeding in twenties. If I was violent, I’d go home and take it out on whichever family member got in my way first.
I’m not any of these. I’m just the guy who will rant uselessly on this page, and go home and try and get back my balance and my happy.
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# Vote #1 Dave Edwards
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# Sanity? We don't need no stinking sanity!
You know, it wasn’t that long ago that Darwin was the home base of East Timorese agitating for independence from Indonesia. Suharto’s Indonesia called them terrorists. Similarly, there were Yugoslavs in Australia agitating against Tito.
The French action against Greenpeace in New Zealand was rightly denounced by all and sundry. But you know. Let’s have a policy of pre-emption. What a splendid idea.
Update: Cuba may now commence bombing Miami.
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# I hear you, brother. I hear you.
It was as if I was in some godawful chick flick. I almost shed a tear of empathy when I read about The importance of a good client liason.
Right now I am re-neducating a new AM. Mostly she is pretty good, but a few things slip past her. Like how dumping a CD of photoshop mockups of the pages in a site redesign and the printout of said mockups while I am away from my desk does not actually constitute informing me that I have the go ahead to start working on it and that my time starts now. Ten days to do it, two days blown. Yee hah!
She is also quite savvy, but not quite savvy enough to realise that the reason the “You poor bastard” client is sending a million and one requests by email and not returning calls is because they are 90% sure the problem exists on their end, but they are going to make us do the work of proving it by showing there is no problem on our end. What was that about negatives and proof?
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# Nooooooo!!!!!!!
When I went to sleep last night, I felt really dizzy. I hadn't had anything to drink, and the small chunk of rum & raisin fudge wasn't enough to get me drunk. But there was spinning, and turning, and this odd vortex of iridescent energy that I tumbled down. When I awoke, it look liked somebody had been through the house and moved things around. Light seemed funny, somehow less bright. But it wasn't until I read the paper that I realised what had happened. I had crossed over into…Bizarro Land.
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# We're gonna need a bigger hutch
When I was younger, my parents took my sister and I on a trip that took in, amongst other places, Los Angeles. We did the tour of Universal Studios. Basically you got on a tour bus and drove around some of the older backlots. There was a Battlestar Galactica show (this dates me), there was an A-Team show, and there was…Jaws.
I was quite young (so not mid thirties likes some calculations might reveal), so I had never actually seen Jaws. AS you can imagine then, this show confused me. The one image I have from the show was of the very, very fibreglass shark coming out of the water right next to the tour bus and menacing the specators as only really, really unrealistic shark-shaped fibreglass molds can do.
As I was walking past the hutch…Jaws leapt out at me.
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# Eye candy as well as a better product. Cool
If it has always been there, then pardon me for being blind, or at least never trying to find a string on the page. But if it hasn’t, the Find UI in Firefox 1.0 RC is just sweet.
I glanced at my logs yesterday for last week. 14% and second place for Firefox, IE 6 was 40-odd%. They’re coming.
