A Purple House

I went to a Painting Business to install some software. Nice guys. I mean really nice people. Now I am thinking of painting the house again.

We have discusses purple. I mean if you are going to paint . . . eyesore comes t o mind. My house is known by the people who lived in it 4 families and 30 years ago. I mean come on. So maybe it can be called, "that purple house."

At least there would be something to talk about in this town other then who's dog ran away. Of course I will most likely wimp out and paint it blue or brown.

A Service Pack When?

Microsoft is at it again. This time the bad software that is coming is Microsoft Windows Vista. Vista as you know will finally be released this month. Since Windows XP is only 6 years old it seems to be about time. As I recall we had to wait a couple of years for SP1.

Well, MS is out doing themselves again. Windows Vista SP1 will be out later this year. Uhm the long time vapor ware and a major update in weeks?

MS just get the product right the first time around and take a vacation in and come back and do it right, then release it.

Microsoft Vista, just like falling off a cliff.

The Big Date

I am dating this girl who is catholic. At least her parents are catholic and rather religious at that. So what do you give the parents of catholic girl who, well maybe, you are friendly with . . . shall we say.

I mean giving catholic gifts is not forte. Therefore, I am thinking of giving them something fun. Maybe, I could give them something Jewish. Maybe I should just give a nice card and a bottle of wine perhaps some flowers.

PHB Strikes Again

I was trying to do a powerpoint for a presentation I was doing. The presentation was fantastically put together, as usual. However, the pointy haired boss wanted every person to have a presentation folder printing of the presentation, aka my work and sweat.

The clients liked it . . . so the evil PHB took credit for the presentation as usual . . . which is always bummer. Well at least I can take comfort in knowing that I did a great job. Of course I will not be comforted by a raise or a bonus. Sounds about normal.

So if you need a evil, make that wonderful, Pointy Haired Boss for your business or office please let me know. I am willing to lease it out . . . cheaply.

The USPO

You would think with all the great technology that we have the postal system could easily deliver a letter to our Mailboxes without destroying them.

I am told that less then 1% of the mail gets damaged or destroyed. So what is the deal? At least twice a month we get a letter that has been damaged in the mail system. For those who have never seen it, you get your mail in a nice little external envelope with a see through telling you . . . we have trashed your mail . . . sorry.

I can see it now. Your $100M winning lottery ticket was destroyed by the machine . . . sorry. Yes, you are.

The Consultant

Dilbert is always good for laughs. One particular favorite involves consultants. Let's be real what does it take to be a consultant? I have it in three words: professional business cards.

The one that I like is where Dilbert is a consultant becasue of a business card. Of course he later complains about it . . . but still life mocking art.

You to can be a consultant, or at least try to be a consultant. How do I know . . . I have done it. Okay, getting work is hard. But, still I have business card that says, consultant.

Now . . . where are those business cards?

Jailed for Spyware

Planetisaac.com note that a teacher has been jailed for having spyware on the machine.

Snow Plows or . . .

One thing I do not like is the roads around here. Minnesota first of all has really bad roads. One top of that whoever is supposed to plow some areas do really bad jobs at it. I can go through areas that seem like they are not even plowed a day later and a mile later it is dry.

Take the blue and yellow consumer electronics store that has the same initials as Bugs Bunny. They do not plow the parking lot. There is the van with big ole' van rack on sitting there under snow not moving.

Fun things in tech

Technology is always fun. There are places in which unusual things are always going on. and happening. Raleigh North Carolina Real Estate is one of those of places. The Raleigh area is growing like crazy mostly because of Tech. The research triangle is home to many tech companies and there are unique programs that go on there. One of my favorite stories allegedly comes from IBM.

In the research triangle area IBM has a group of engineers who use Macintosh computers. The story is that these smart people are trying to develop better ways of doing things.

This is on par with the comments between Steve Jobs and John Cray of Cray Computers. Steve-o bought a cray to design the next Macintosh. John Cray used the Macintosh to design the next cray.

Now, how many digits of pi can we calculate?

Computers in the Classroom = Jail

This is really important for teachers and teachers to be.


Teacher in jail for computers

MWSF

We are less than 24 hours from MWSF 2007. What shall we see coming down the pike.

The YES List

iWork 07 - with spreadsheet
iLife 07

A new iPod of some sorts

A new computer.


The Maybe List

A major newer kick-butt computer
An updated MacBook and Pro

The Apple Cell Phone - this I think is likely, there has been so much buzz for so long.

AppleWorks and WP

I have a confession to make. I have been using AppleWorks (aka ClarisWorks) for years. I was given a demo copy of ClarisWorks 2.0 when I was working for a computer company. At the time I was using the Powerbook 100 and needed something that would actually run and not sping up the hard drive all the time like Microsoft Word.

Now, I am on a MacBook and want a universal binary program for Word Processing. I do not like Pages becasue of the lame way of doing outlines. Whatever program I am going to use needs to be able to read AppleWorks directly.

Any ideas?

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