04.25.06

Don’t ever buy anything from Frys Electronics

Posted in Uncategorized at 5:23 am by kmcd

They have about the worst service desk I have ever had to deal with.  Reasonable companies keep track of service agreements based on the serial number of the piece of hardware, right?  Frys is not anywhere near reasonable.  I have dealt with Dell, Sun, and Apple, none have been more difficult to deal with than Frys.  On top of that, the loaner computer that we had apparently was reported as being returned before we actually ever showed up with it.  Preposterous.  DON’T BUY FROM FRYS.

04.23.06

Global Dimming

Posted in Uncategorized at 7:48 pm by kmcd

Not only are we warming the earth with our overuse of hydrocarbon based fuels, but we are also producing another effect, which may have a much more rapid destructive effect, called “global dimming”.  Check out http://www.globalissues.org/EnvIssues/GlobalWarming/globaldimming.asp for more information on how it works and why it is believed to be showing its effects already.

04.22.06

Always ask the person that wrote the program

Posted in Uncategorized at 7:32 pm by kmcd

Well, after pulling out hair trying to figure out what was wrong with the new mail server, I finally decided to email Wietse Venema about it.  He told me right off what was wrong and although it is something that probably should be documented, it teaches the lesson that one should always go to the source at the top of trying to debug complicated software.  Anyway, we will make our changes on Monday night.

04.19.06

BIG change at work tonight!

Posted in Uncategorized at 5:17 am by kmcd

I hope all goes well, campus is moving our DNS entries around so that our new postfix mail server and web server take the place of the old (tired) one.  I hope this works okay, our old server is slow and far too often it is overloaded by crap, so much so that it often stops trying to deliver email.  Fingers are crossed.

04.17.06

Tax Return rant

Posted in Uncategorized at 4:57 pm by kmcd

It strikes me as an extreme waste of time and effort to file a tax return that requires me to pay $4.84… talk about a serious waste of money and time for both me and the IRS.

Easter Sunday

Posted in Uncategorized at 4:28 am by kmcd

Well, I got talked into going to the Berkeley Yacht Club.  It was very good and I ate and ate.  Then I went off to see “The Wild”.  Not the worst Disney film this year, but it wasn’t that spectacular.  See it on video I guess would be my recommendation, although the cinematography was pretty good and at times realistic.

04.16.06

also, i saw “Ice Age 2: The Meltdown”

Posted in Uncategorized at 2:35 am by kmcd

it wasn’t quite as good as the first film in the series, however it was not a bad film, I enjoyed it.  I think they may have overdone the squirrel and acorn scenes, but not by much.  I didn’t cry in the film, so I can’t rate it as highly as I would Monsters, Inc, or Finding Nemo, or even the Incredibles.  But, the film was not nearly as bad as Chicken Little or Hoodwinked.

went to see “the Libertine”

Posted in Uncategorized at 2:26 am by kmcd

reminded me a lot of the Neal Stephenson baroque triliogy.  late 16 century must have been a really wild time in history.  I do think that Johnny Depp gave an amazing performance.

04.07.06

First Post

Posted in Uncategorized at 7:55 pm by kmcd

Hi world,

 This is the first entry in my weblog.  I don’t know what we will end up discussing, but I think perhaps we will just let people add stuff and see what happens.

Kelley