Ranting
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Ranting
Those of us not at MIX08 are likely jealous of those who are. Certainly Twitter has been aflutter with MIX08 tweets, letting the rest of us feel left out in near-real-time. Oh well. That's not the point. Just wanted to get that in there. The point, as you're wondering, is that while I was watching the keynote stream from MIX08, I found it very easy to succumb to Grass-is-Greener Syndrome (GIGS?). It's super easy to watch something like the IE8 demo, or the Silverlight stuff done by the Vertigo and Hard Rock people, or the just astonishing end-to-end magical technosex...
So this morning I can’t get to subscriber downloads at all. When I click on it, it takes me back to the subscriptions main page. This happens to me all the time. I have to try back at random times of the day to see if I can get in. HUGELY unproductive, becasue I’m sitting here needing my Visio product key and can’t get to it because the linkage situation on the subscriber site sucks and you can only get to that stuff from the downloads page, which I can’t get to.
If there is an error or something causing the...
Derek over at ardent dev had some things to say about following instructions to get a job. And people lambasted him for it. Serious?
Having hired a person or two in my career, and been through some…interesting…interviews, I’m with Derek. Follow the damn directions. If I want your resume emailed to me, email it. If I want it delivered by mail, do that. If I want it delivered by carrier pigeon, you better fucking do it or I’m not reading it, and if I do actually read it, I’m already pissed at you for not doing it right, and I’m going...
Okay. As I already stated, I was in Orlando this week for a training conference for an imaging/document management vendor. The conference was extremely well done, including the company renting out Marvel Island at Universal Islands of Adventure and providing 0–minute wait times on the Incredible Hulk, an open bar, and 4 star catered food. For some, the mathematical combination of those three things = an oral subtraction of the products of the latter two. And that are gross.
So, on to the point. The Disney Swan and Dolphin resorts. The location of my conference this week and VSLive! Orlando. Here’s...
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There is a good chance that some of you reading this will get angry and unsubscribe from my blog, or not hire me for a job, or blackmail me, or some other nonsense, not because I know anyone will do this for sure, but I’m just playing the numbers here.. I’m sorry if it has to come to that over a philosophical disagreement, I like to think of all of you as my peers in intellectualism, but the following represents a viewpoint that some of you may not like. And I’m okay with that. And on my end, even if we...
Dude…how could you? I’m just sick now. After all that “I have never used steroids” bullshit to congress too. Man. I grew up watching you, all those years in Texas…you were one of the stand-up guys we thought. Bad enough you were pitching Viagra, but that we were willing to forgive. Your 3000/500 no longer impresses, and you leave the fans with a bad taste in our mouths.
I guess you yourself said it best when compared to Hank, Willie, and Eddie: “I’m in a group with them now, but that doesn’t mean I belong in their class…”
You damn sure...
How often is it that you can read something that’s extremely well written, agree with it in principle, and still want to walk up to the author, pull the middle finger out of your pocket (the old “I got something for you” bit) and tell him to fuck right the hell off?
I guess that’s why I like Joel. Sometimes good, sometimes bad, his writing always makes me think, and it’s always well done.
But I take HUGE umbrage with his latest work, Hitting the High Notes. Not the underlying thesis mind you. I agree 100% in principle with something he has been...
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So in a previous post I bitched about not being able to group my online/offline contacts in MSN Messenger 7. Thankfully J. Gregory doesn’t suffer from the same inability to find menu options as I.
However, after the relief of looking at a properly organized contact list kicked in, I started getting pretty pissed about the UI design of the new Messenger, and many, many other apps. Honestly…I fucking write software and I couldn’t find this option (Contacts Menu|Sort Contacts By > Group Offline Contacts). And I was pissed that a bit of UI design made me feel stupid especially after finding out where to...
I have to get this off my chest before I explode. I’ve been seething about it for many days now, and it’s funny that it follows hot on the heels of this post.
SO…
We have this software vendor. There has been an ongoing drama regarding creating an integration with their software and a specialty printer we have in our lab. The whole thing is actually so damn ridiculous, that it made it to the Daily WTF a long while back. The basic gist is that to integrate the printer with the software, they wanted to charge us like $30K. Horseshit.
So, after looking...
My boy Bill is always entertaining, especially when he's making a point that he's passionate about. This time it's the way that programmers shirk their duties with phrases like "it works on my machine", or making apps the least amount of user-friendly possible (making the customer read you hex on the phone? wtf? I've worked with programmers that couldn't read you hex on the phone, and just the other day I had to remind someone who should know better which letters are and are not valid hex characters.)
See, to me, this is bullshit. And I can say things like bullshit because...
I just can't. I end up getting so pissed off at the theater, it ruins the whole experience for me. I swear. People should have to get a license to go out and interact with society. Now maybe I wouldn't pass that test and get a license, but at least then I'd have a good reason to shut myself off and be a hermit before I hurt someone.
The next person that talks on their cell phone near me during the movie is having his or her cell phone thrown at the screen.
The next person that puts his fucking feet on...
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Lucas to make more Star Wars?
You know what? What ever. I'm over it. I'm sick of his shit. He's ruining the long-awaited release of the original trilogy on DVD. He's ruining the whole story with Ep's I and II. Probably also III. He's lied to us. He's misled us. It's like he's intentionally trying to piss off his loyal fan-base sometimes.
Look, George, give the last 3 movies to real directors. Let Speilberg do Ep. VII, and let Jackson do Ep. VIII. You can then take all the time you want to screw up Ep. IX. I mean...