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Monthly Archives: October 2004

Never, ever, ever Search on evite.

24-Oct-04

And speaking of useless date formats…

19-Oct-04

Here's what Veritas NetBackup uses for log messages:
MM/DD/YY
And, for the file names of those log messages:
log.MMDDYY
Have you people learned nothing from Y2K? (I mean, I'd prefer ISO 8601, but I'd settle for some level of parseable sanity…)
This was slightly less irritating when I had zsh's groking of things like 01{15..26}04 around, but now that I'm [...]

Subtleties of bad UI design.

19-Oct-04

So, $CURRENT_EMPLOYER uses what I believe to be a modified version of AIM, integrated loosely with Lotus Notes, called Sametime for internal communication. This application allows you to save chat transcripts, and proposes a default filename of the format:
User Name.[M]M[D]DYYYY.[H]HMM {A,P}M.txt
Aside from the variable length of the file names and the internal spaces (which make [...]

Join me for dinner again.

03-Oct-04

Lemon Garlic Chicken:

A rare friends only post (& invitation).

02-Oct-04

I've considered trying this before. I'm definitely not going to invite the unwashed masses of lj-proper into my home. But I might have a chance of sanity with you lot. Maybe. So, anyway, here's the content of an email I just sent out, titled “martini renaissance”:
I'm back in PA (working in DE; yes, my route [...]