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2010.02.12
Facebook is Not a Blog
While I have to admit that I appreciate Facebook’s status updates, I have to say I hate how some users seem to think status updates are some form of blog. I realize they should be short and succinct. However, don’t just say, “Cool!” followed by a link. I don’t want to follow links out of Facebook, especially from my phone. Give me some indication of what is so “Cool!” will ya? Like this:
Cool! Doug finally uses his blog!
Short, succinct, with all the information I need to determine if I want to bother, which in my example I’m probably not too interested…
2 Comments | Catergorized: grrr technology2009.11.03
Jolt Cola Blasphemy!
I started drinking Jolt Cola when it first came out. Back then the motto was, “All the sugar and twice the caffeine.” So what is this BLASPHEMY?!? Diet Jolt Cola is wrong. Powers that be, make this nightmare go away and restore my faith in you.
2009.09.10
Meeting Agendas
At my place of employment we’ve switched our enterprise calendaring system. I won’t go into the details of this because it would deserve a very long post. It has brought up an interesting point, though, about (some) corporate cultures regarding meeting.
For fsck’s sake people, if you set up a meeting then put some bloody details in the comments section so I know what it’s about. If you make a meeting and call it, “Let’s Talk,” I have no idea WTF you want to talk about. I can’t read your mind.
A meeting should have an agenda, or your wasting my time and yours. Four out of five times we don’t even have to have a meeting; stop by my desk and ask your question. We can resolve this in five minutes or less. If you insist on setting up a meeting, though, tell me what it’s about. If you can’t do that much, I’m making a public vow to start declining your meetings. With prejudice.
No Comments | Catergorized: grrr work2009.07.28
iPhoto and Facebook
I’ve been really enjoying iPhoto 09 until just the other day. RMCA and I have tons of photos from our trip to Catalonia and I thought I would upload them from iPhoto into Facebook for easy, lazy sharing. I’ve done this before with the previous version of iPhoto and an plugin from the folks at Facebook and it worked brilliantly. The new version, however, I’m not terribly impressed with.
For one it assumes that you’ve labeled everyone using the built-in Faces feature. I hadn’t. iPhoto uses these Faces labels to create your tags in Facebook. This is supremely irritating as some of the people I do not want tagged are there. Also irritating was the fact that I couldn’t add details. Perhaps I could do this using each picture’s information section, but the beauty of the plugin from before was that you could add all the relevant information.
Finally, in my list of albums there are now Facebook albums. I’m afraid to delete these now because I don’t know if iPhoto will try to delete them from Facebook. I don’t want them there, though. I’ll have to experiment with it.
Personally I won’t be using iPhoto’s built in Facebook uploader again. It’s easy, true, but too easy and without enough overt control.
PS: I’ll be uploading more pictures to this site soon, too.
2 Comments | Catergorized: apple grrr photos2009.05.08
Makes Us Stronger
There’s a common saying. That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
I bet I could hurt you in a way you would never recover from…
(Apropos of nothing, BTW. Just a thought I had after hearing someone blithely use that quote in a context that made absolutely no sense).
1 Comment | Catergorized: grrr2009.03.01
California’s 10% Unemployment
I haven’t been posting much lately. It’s been a rough several weeks partly/greatly because of work. This is life.
California recently hit the 10% unemployment mark. Generally speaking, one in every ten people you see around you has no job. That’s quite a bit of people. Over the winter holidays I was out on the east coast and it was obvious the economy wasn’t doing well out there. Tons of stores were shut down, not nearly as many people were out and about as I was used to, and everyone seemed to be talking about the loss of jobs and the fact that the economy was in the crapper. I came back to San Francisco and looked around and things didn’t seem that bad and I was A) relieved and B) worried it might happen here.
Well, it’s happening. I’ve never seen so many houses for sale in all the time I’ve lived here. They are on the market because folks are either foreclosed or realizing they really can’t afford the mortgage. Stores are starting to shut down, and I’m hearing about more coming. Worst of all is that every company seems to be laying people off. Every day I hear about it from the news and from friends. It’s rough and I wish there was something I could do about it because I have the strong feeling it will get worse before it gets better.
No Comments | Catergorized: friends grrr life san francisco work2009.01.22
Driving After Rain
It’s raining for the first time in a long time here in San Francisco. I’ve not seen such a pack of idiot drivers on the road as I did this morning. Accidents, slowness, idiotic and dangerous weaving… I’m really glad I drove instead of riding the motorcycle (though I could have potentially made it to my destination in half the time).
WTF, people! Seriously, if you got your license in the past year then you’ve driven in rain before. The rules haven’t changed. For all our sakes, please get with the program.
No Comments | Catergorized: grrr2008.11.10
Home Prices are Dropping!
The cost of owning a home in San Francisco is dropping! Yay! Alas, that $1,000,000 home is still gonna cost you at least $800,000. Drat. To find out how much check out SFGate’s database.
1 Comment | Catergorized: grrr san francisco2008.11.05
Yeehaw and WTF
Yay! Obama won. When the TV showed him over the top we could hear cheers out on the streets. I was, for the first time in my life, quite emotional about a political race.
Yet this morning I woke up to check the CA and San Francisco results and WTF?!? Proposition 8, which would create a CA constitutional amendment to ban the rights of same-sex couples to marry, rent a car bulgariapassed. Unbelievable. I am very disappointed that this passed and yet a proposition to protect the “rights” of food stock animals passed. I feel like we just went back to the era when inter-racial marriage was illegal. California, you just disappointed me in a way I’m having a hard time expressing.
Still, most of the election this year was phenomenally positive. And on January 20th, 2009 we will have a new president. Alas that Obama has to fix, clean up and repair the mountain of crap that Bush and the Republicans have left behind. I hope he can do it.
“Yes we can.”
5 Comments | Catergorized: grrr life political rights2008.10.12
Questions About the Bailout
I know the economy is so vast and complex that if anyone claims they know what is going on I am instantly skeptical about them
So not too long ago Congress approved the Bush Administration’s $700,000,000,000 bailout package…
1: Why? Isn’t this the same administration that believes in free markets and laissez-faire economics? That regulation is ALWAYS bad?
2: Let me get this straight… We’re going to give money to the same banks that fscked everything up… so they can turn around and loan me -with interest!- money I already paid in taxes? My own money?
3: I won’t claim to be the wisest person on the planet about the economy. I know the economy is so vast and complex that if anyone claims they know what is going on I am instantly skeptical about them. And Bush’s administration claims to magically “know” this will save everyone? Congress claims that after great deliberation and modification of the original terms they agree?
4: I thought we already had some craptastic economic stimulus package that was supposed to “fix” this problem? I got $600 just a few months ago and was encouraged by Bush to spend it. Instead I put it into savings. After all, it was my tax money in the first place. I can’t help but wonder if I ruined the economy by not spending it.
5: Can anyone explain to me where all this money is coming from? Because our country is already so far in the red it will take years to dig out of it (if we can even get people responsible enough to do the hard work).
This thing is pissing me off more than I expected. I’m already seeing businesses going out of business. Maybe they were struggling already, I don’t know. I’m already seeing more and more houses up for sale. I have the feeling that soon I’ll start seeing less traffic on the roads, more people on the streets, more crime as people get desperate, more competition for fewer jobs, prices for everyday items like food going up…
How did anyone prepare for the Great Depression?
1 Comment | Catergorized: grrr thoughts
