| Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose |
[29 Apr 2005|11:12am] |
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We traded poorly written software for which we had no source code with poorly written software for which we wrote the source code.
Ain't life beautiful?
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| A pint at a time... |
[10 Dec 2004|09:20pm] |
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A pint of beer: ~5 €. A 12" iBook, some extra RAM, Bluetooth option: ~1250 € (VAT included), or 250 pints of beer. With a safe estimate of 2 pints per week, that means buying a decently configured iBook would cost me almost two years and a half without beer.
There has to be a better way.
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| 42, maybe. |
[08 Nov 2004|11:48pm] |
From: me
To: boss
Subject: Whine ? Me ? I never whine !
Thinking...
why the hell do I have to get here each and every morning ? What's the point ? Meeting people I can't stand, working on something that has not even been scribbled on a napkin, the only plan being "Let's do X", which will eventually turn into Y and/or Z. Again, what's the point ?
And, if there really is a point, why here ? There's an empty room back at the office, and a spare computer. All we need is to grab an encoding board.
Dunno.
Just waiting for a briefing, during which absolutely nothing useful will get done. As usual.
:-) <== haha, only serious.
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| SSDD |
[08 Nov 2004|09:22am] |
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I'm back on the crime scene...
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| Net addiction |
[28 Sep 2004|03:02pm] |
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If it takes longer to shop for something in town than looking it up on the net, I'll just reach for the credit card and have it shipped home.
Guess I'm clinical.
:-)
(Oh by the way... this thing is not dead yet... just comatose.)
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| Shakespeare who ? |
[14 Jun 2004|05:28pm] |
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According to popular belief a considerable (but not infinite) number of monkeys down here have been pretty busy in the last couple of days sifting through phone numbers and keying-in short text messages.
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| Digital divide |
[21 May 2004|11:09am] |
Working in IT you get so accustomed to being always on-line that you sometimes forget people are often just a phone-call away... but at the same time sending the same e-mail to ten different people is simpler than calling each one of them.
Mhhkay, maybe I'm a clinical case :-)
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| Update ! |
[10 May 2004|12:05pm] |
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I forgot to mention a billboard with some blonde advertising underwear :-)
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| Same shit, different place |
[10 May 2004|11:58am] |
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Hey ! I have an actual window with real trees out of it. I can see people out there (ok, more cars than people...) !
And on the inside I have a whole (almost clean !) desktop for me ! Yay ! Maybe some real work to do, too (but just maybe).
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| A grumpy old geek |
[31 Mar 2004|03:12pm] |
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I've been messing around computers for a looong time, time I could certainly have spent better. But that's not the point.
The point is that back in the day downloading and trying out something from the net was a painless and harmless thing. All I had to do was to drop the program files somewhere and possibly check for the needed libraries in a couple of places. If I didn't like the software all I had to do was to throw it away, without my OS "remembering" a single thing about it.
Then came the web for everyone, windows 9x, the lots of wannabe programmers coding in Visual Basic or some toy language like that.
Nowadays the tiniest utility weighs some Megs in download, needs a fancy installer to scatter files all over the place and requires who knows what libraries and specific versions. Add to that banners, trojans, hidden apps that pretend to "enhance your on-line experience" while effectively spying on you. And if you go and uninstall the thing you can't be sure that all the pieces are gone.
When someone says I should try some new cool app I usually think twice about it. And then some more. And most likely decline the offer.
My computer has been running smoothly for a couple of years, no reinstalls or other major repairs whatsoever (knock on wood) and I like it that way.
(And for those out there wondering about Streamer: maybe none of the above applies, but I took a look at the code and I didn't like what I saw, not a bit :-) )
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| Random |
[29 Mar 2004|09:56am] |
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If it's 3AM and you can't sleep, picking a random CD is not a good idea. You could end stuck with the Charlotte County road gang.
:-)
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| Chinese wisdom |
[16 Mar 2004|02:54pm] |
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Ancient wisdom says that if I wait long enough on a bridge across the "Naviglio Pavese" eventually the dead bodies of my enemies will float by.
If there's water and if I can spot them among the dead rats, that is :-)
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| hACkME Labs. |
[12 Mar 2004|09:19am] |
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Lately all the press has been about web-logs, leaving Java a little behind. Here at hACkME Labs. we think that's unfair.
Enter Movable Hype, yet another web-log system, combining all the press and the hype surrounding web-logs with the buzzwords and marketroid talk about server side Java technologies.
Order your copy today.
Available q4 2004.
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| Who's who |
[03 Mar 2004|10:42am] |
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I turn to my office mates and ask: "Anyone interested in the mp3s of Douglas Adams reading the Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy ?" They answer "Who's Douglas Adams ?"
I need new office mates, NOW.
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| Reprise |
[02 Mar 2004|10:16pm] |
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And I cannot even play the guitar (altough I'm quite confortable with doorbells).
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| ph34r |
[02 Mar 2004|12:00pm] |
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One day someone will walk to my desk and ask what exactly I am paid for. I fear that day.
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| Signs |
[01 Mar 2004|06:06pm] |
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Signs that this city is too small and I should move:
- I'm beginning to know my way around. If someone stops me asking for directions, chances are that I know what they're talking about.
Signs that the Internet is too small and I should unplug (and try to get something useful done):
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