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Monthly Archives: March 2004

But wait! There's more!

08-Mar-04

This is a follow up to this post from last week.
I started assigning resources to tasks, and then I get this:

Actually, I'm not doing any of those things. It's a task that requires communication among three people, and I scheduled it for the time it was going to take. So, obviously, I'd like more options.
Too [...]

Happy 10th!

05-Mar-04

notes that ten years ago today the first spam blighted the world.
Just look how far we've come since then (and that's just the ones SA caught).

Actually, it makes me want to kill the <b>author</b>…

04-Mar-04

suggested this poll here. Since he's got a free account, I figured I'd oblige.
He anticipates that the results will be directly proportional. I'd expect they'd be flat-out correlated. Let's find out.

I am the very vacuum of surprise.

04-Mar-04

Microsoft Project's interface sucks.
Who woulda figured?
MS isn't, you know, well known for user-antagonisitic interfaces or anything. It's not like I was expecting Apple- (I'm talking pre-Mac OS X here; they're on a steep and slippery slope right now) or Adobe-quality workmanship here (and I certainly didn't get that), but this rivals the incompetency of horrendous [...]

"This is god. I mean, your sysadmin. I can see what you're doing. Quit it."

02-Mar-04

A friend of mine is, at least for a while, the Unix sysadmin at the small liberal arts college near Philadelphia that he and I both attended. Today, he noticed a spammer taking advantage of the wireless network that that college provides for its students' use to send spam to students at other colleges and [...]