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IM for Food?
Just had a really funny thing happen. I was typing in Office Communicator the name of one of my colleagues to see if she was online yet this morning. I typed in “teri h” and the app searched through both the company address list and my personal contacts in Outlook. The irony is that it looks like while Teri Hoffman isn’t online this morning, the local teriyaki restaurant we go to by our house isn’t online today either! 🙂
The real reason this appeared is that I have a number of restaurants in my contacts so it’s easy to place takeout orders while we’re driving home. Microsoft has integrated our Office Communicator platform with the phone system, so if I wanted I could click on the phone icon next to the restaurant’s listing and call them.
Still, it got a good laugh out of me that a restaurant would show up in my IM client!
The coolest inbox ever
Sure it’s sad that I have one-thousand three-hundred thirty-seven unread messages in my inbox. On the other hand, I’m leet!
🙂
IT Gone Wild
A la “Office Space”…
This is what happens when you get tired of servers crashing on you. You make a preemptive strike. This one won’t be bothering us anymore (okay it’s been off for over a year, but it still felt good after everything we’ve been through).
In addition to a couple screw drivers and a hammer impaled into the box, I discovered you can make a great musical instrument (a shaker) out of a hard drive. If you hit it hard enough the platters inside shatter into thousands of little pieces that then float around inside the case.
Don’t piss off IT guys. 🙂
A Font for John
My good friend John can’t STAND the font “Comic Sans”. You know, the one that looks like this:
John – I give you this from Indexed…
PC vs Mac
I’ve been working (my butt off) to integrate a new company into our email system over the past week and weekend. It’s an ad agency so there are a lot of Macs around … which definitely complicates things and created about an extra day of work for me. I’m not a Mac guy, so a lot of my work has been trial and error with a healthy bit of intuition and a pinch of luck. That being said, I just had this conversation…
Lead Mac Guy: I just want to say we’ve had more Mac tech support around here in the last 3 days than we have in 9 years.
Me: Wow – thanks, but that’s sad because I don’t have a clue.
[banter about PC’s vs Macs…]
LMG: You’re just jealous because you use a second grade system.
Me: Better second grade than kindergarten! [walks off to a room of raucous laughter knowing he got in the winning shot]
To quote Toyota … oh what a feeling!
But how is the cornering?
“JCB Construction’s new 60 MPH, state-of-the-art HMEE, built for the U.S. Army and poised for deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan.(PRNewsFoto/JCB)”
Um … yeah. So evidently we can’t protect our work sites and roads leading to them in Iraq and Afghanistan very well. So the solution isn’t to better protect them, it’s to order a backhoe that can outrun the insurgents. I wonder how well this handles the Top Gear test track?
Anyone else see the irony here?
BillG’s last day
We all have last days… Here’s what my former boss’ boss’ boss’ last day is going to be like later this year.
http://on10.net/blogs/larry/Bills-Last-Day-CES-2008-Keynote-Video/Default.aspx
Credibility and investment advice
Trust me, this post by Scott Adams is NOT about what you think it is based on the title I just gave you. 🙂
Enjoy!
I forget the details, but I think the first mouse that got the concentrated resveratrol lived 30% longer and started having an affair with Maria Shriver. One of the dogs with resveratrol got a bone and dug a hole so far into the earth he now lives with a family in Sumatra. And he’s so strong he can lick any balls he wants. No one dares stop him.
Private public area
I saw this at the Factoria Mall in Bellevue, WA last December. Oh the irony.
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