Code Monkey get up get coffee
Code Monkey go to job
Code Monkey have boring meeting
With boring manager Rob
Rob say Code Monkey seem to work a lot
But his output stink
His code not “functional” or “elegant”
What do Code Monkey think?
Code Monkey think maybe manager want to write god damned login page himself
Code Monkey not say it out loud
Code Monkey not crazy, just proud.
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Friday, February 23, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
James Pacenza sues IBM over adult chat room firing
I saw this and just Had to blog a rant about it. This is the most blatant frivolous law suit I've seen in a while. He claims to have been just visiting a chat room to deal with "traumatic stress". His buddy died 38 years ago in the Vietnam War and this stress still forces him to get virtual sex at work to this very day.
Perhaps he was reeeeaaaaallly close with this old buddy of his?
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070219/ap_on_hi_te/chat_room_lawsuit
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Thursday, February 15, 2007
1-800-FLOWERS is worthless
These guys have not been answering their phone for over 24 hours, now. I can understand if a company is slow to respond (in minutes) because of a heavy demand for their product but these guys seem like they left their website active and just skipped town!
If you call 1-800-716-4851, you will not get a response from anyone. How can a company expect to stay in business with service like this? I have been trying to cancel my order since the middle of the day yesterday.
I have tried calling them and emailing them to cancel. The email gets an automated reply and that's all. Now, I'm getting emails telling me that my order is shipping! Time to call the credit card company and stop payment. These guys are a SCAM!
If you google, you will find thousands of other blogs complaining of this exact problem. If you want to order flowers for a loved one, don't rely on 1-800-flowers.com.
If you call 1-800-716-4851, you will not get a response from anyone. How can a company expect to stay in business with service like this? I have been trying to cancel my order since the middle of the day yesterday.
I have tried calling them and emailing them to cancel. The email gets an automated reply and that's all. Now, I'm getting emails telling me that my order is shipping! Time to call the credit card company and stop payment. These guys are a SCAM!
If you google, you will find thousands of other blogs complaining of this exact problem. If you want to order flowers for a loved one, don't rely on 1-800-flowers.com.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
My Minnis
I stumbled upon this web site last week and have been thoroughly impressed with it! It is called Your Mini's. It is completely written in Flash and it collects all of your RSS feeds into a single attractive interface that goes with you anywhere that you roam.
It's not an RSS tool, though. It has a lot of useful tools like a sticky pad, calculator, and much more. It really reminds me of the type of thing that you would see in the Vista tool bar or the OS X gadgets. The real advantage of this website, though, is that your data and tools are not stuck on your computer. Any web browser that can use Flash can quickly access all of your feeds and tools just by browsing to http://www.yourminis.com.
1-800-flowers.com gives poor service for Valentines Day
I would normally let this issue go with a private reprimand to a sales rep but this is the second time that I've been burned by flowers.com. I placed my order yesterday and was promised that the flowers would be delivered to my wife on Valentines Day. They where not. Neither where the roses that I ordered to be sent to my mother at work.
I called this evening to cancel the order and could not get through to anyone. The third time that I called 1-800-716-4851, someone actually picked up the phone ... but nobody spoke. I said, "Hello?" but nobody spoke back.
After a moment of silence, I started hearing customer service reps talking in the background. They must have mistakenly answered my line and left the phone off the hook. Then, I heard something that widened my eyes ... "I can't believe that stupid guy hung up on me! What an ASSHOLE!". It was some lady not far away from the receiver.
I listened for about another ten minutes and then someone walked close to the phone and said, "I can't believe they all left!" The phone bumped a bit and then clicked off.
I called back five more times and got nothing but a recording just kept telling me that they had to end my phone call because they where too busy and then hung up on every time.
I recorded it and will place a link to it up here shortly. Needless to say, this is the last encounter that I will ever have with them.
If a company can not handle the volume of the seasons, then they have no business taking orders.
I called this evening to cancel the order and could not get through to anyone. The third time that I called 1-800-716-4851, someone actually picked up the phone ... but nobody spoke. I said, "Hello?" but nobody spoke back.
After a moment of silence, I started hearing customer service reps talking in the background. They must have mistakenly answered my line and left the phone off the hook. Then, I heard something that widened my eyes ... "I can't believe that stupid guy hung up on me! What an ASSHOLE!". It was some lady not far away from the receiver.
I listened for about another ten minutes and then someone walked close to the phone and said, "I can't believe they all left!" The phone bumped a bit and then clicked off.
I called back five more times and got nothing but a recording just kept telling me that they had to end my phone call because they where too busy and then hung up on every time.
I recorded it and will place a link to it up here shortly. Needless to say, this is the last encounter that I will ever have with them.
If a company can not handle the volume of the seasons, then they have no business taking orders.
Friday, February 09, 2007
I'm an old man on Mercury
According to http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/age/, I will be 140 years old on Feb 23,2007! I'm going to be 18 on Mars on April 14th, though.
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007
National Leadership Award Scam
I was targeted by the Republican Party as a fund raising scam. They tried to scam me out of $500 to get my name on some stupid advertisement in the Wall Street Journal, a gavel, and invites to the Presidential breakfasts in Washington.
I decided to call the number that the left for me on the answering machine (1-877-213-0603) a call this afternoon to see what this was all about. The lady told me that I was being honored and that I have already won. Immediately, this started to sound like a sweepstakes scam.
Next, she told me that I would have the "honor" of having my name listed with a bunch of the other suckers -err- co-chairmen in an advertisement in the Washington State Journal. All that I needed to do was to contribute $500 to their cause .. tax cuts.
I've voted mostly Republican for most of my voting life but this scam alone has given me a big shove to the left. What honorable party would take advantage of people like this?
They didn't get a dime from me and I hope that everyone else was that wise.
Reference: Here are some others who where contacted by these republican scam artists.
I decided to call the number that the left for me on the answering machine (1-877-213-0603) a call this afternoon to see what this was all about. The lady told me that I was being honored and that I have already won. Immediately, this started to sound like a sweepstakes scam.
Next, she told me that I would have the "honor" of having my name listed with a bunch of the other suckers -err- co-chairmen in an advertisement in the Washington State Journal. All that I needed to do was to contribute $500 to their cause .. tax cuts.
I've voted mostly Republican for most of my voting life but this scam alone has given me a big shove to the left. What honorable party would take advantage of people like this?
They didn't get a dime from me and I hope that everyone else was that wise.
Reference: Here are some others who where contacted by these republican scam artists.
Monday, February 05, 2007
VNCScan hits Prime Time
For a while, I've been in contact with a person that does the computer playback effects for shows such as Grey's Anatomy and Criminal minds. If there is a scene that involves someone typing at a computer or has a computer screen in the picture, he is the one that makes it happen .. and he makes it happen in part due to my software.
This episode after the Super Bowl is particularly exciting because I wrote a little something special just for one of the scenes and was able to see it work flawlessly on the show.
The tool that I wrote allowed Dauv to hit a key on his master workstation and send that keystroke to a bunch of different computers at the same time. It was very simple how it worked.
There is a listener running on each of the screen computers and a "sender" running on his. He hits a key and the stroke is send over Ethernet using UDP to all of the listeners. When a listener hears the keystroke, it gets a handle on whatever window has the focus on the computer and relays that keystroke to that window.
The scene that this was used on is the one where the psycho guy was monitoring a bunch of people's webcams and had about 10 monitors with a persons webcam on each one. There was a knock at the door and he looked very concerned. he hit a few keys on his keyboard and all of the monitors went to screen saver at the same time. Success!
Knowing that VNCScan and some of my custom programming is being used like this on the show has turned me onto the show but the quality plots, suspense, and action have me hooked.
This episode after the Super Bowl is particularly exciting because I wrote a little something special just for one of the scenes and was able to see it work flawlessly on the show.
The tool that I wrote allowed Dauv to hit a key on his master workstation and send that keystroke to a bunch of different computers at the same time. It was very simple how it worked.
There is a listener running on each of the screen computers and a "sender" running on his. He hits a key and the stroke is send over Ethernet using UDP to all of the listeners. When a listener hears the keystroke, it gets a handle on whatever window has the focus on the computer and relays that keystroke to that window.
The scene that this was used on is the one where the psycho guy was monitoring a bunch of people's webcams and had about 10 monitors with a persons webcam on each one. There was a knock at the door and he looked very concerned. he hit a few keys on his keyboard and all of the monitors went to screen saver at the same time. Success!
Knowing that VNCScan and some of my custom programming is being used like this on the show has turned me onto the show but the quality plots, suspense, and action have me hooked.
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