I was playing / chestbonz-ing my XBOX the other night when I ran into some nasty trouble with the local ruffians in the game. My character died and I had not saved for quite some time. In a fit of rage brought about by to much gaming and not enough sleep I uttered two simple … Read More ““Oh Crap!” and other words not to repeat” »
Year: 2005
I was playing / chestbonz-ing my XBOX the other night when I ran into some nasty trouble with the local ruffians in the game. My character died and I had not saved for quite some time. In a fit of rage brought about by to much gaming and not enough sleep I uttered two simple … Read More “"Oh Crap!" and other words not to repeat” »
More news from the consumerism front: My wife thought it would be nice if she could play some of her favorite music on her PocketPC Phone (Siemens SX56) whilst she was in labor. She then assigned me the task of finding and loading the music she wanted on the phone. No problems until she informed … Read More “Yahoo/MSN/Napster Music is a scam” »
The Green Day song “American Idiot” resonates with the flickr photo stream my friend Lance started. The complete lyrics can be found here. By the way I don’t want to be an American Idiot! The demise of our democracy will not be terrorist, Chinese buy-out of oil companies or the French but instead our own … Read More “American Idiot” »
Virtual Earth Originally uploaded by Richard Chennault. Here is a another satelite phote of where I live. This one came courtesy of Microsoft Virtual Earth. Not bad app with some nifty features. Now if this had been a part of MS Streets and Trips 2005 with GPS I might have kept the damn thing instead … Read More “More of Where do I Live : Virtual Earth” »
Some corporations are not for profit organization dedicated to the goal of healthier outcomes for its members. Not surprisingly as one digs deep into the bowels of exactly what that phrase entails a picture of less than healthy outcome begins to emerge. As I’ve stated in a previous blog it is sometimes difficult to work … Read More “Corporate – Frell” »
Rich’s House Originally uploaded by lantzilla. My good buddy Lance add to the Where do I live set by providing this great pic of my house from inside the belly of a SouthWest plane. This is the shot looking east.
Work often requires that I attend endless meetings with people I don’t know. Many of these people are vendors and an occasional new employee. Before the conference goes into full swing people exchange pleasantness and small talk to whittle away the time until the last straggler rushes in and the meeting can begin. The most … Read More “UPDATED — Where do I live?” »
Work often requires that I attend endless meetings with people I don’t know. Many of these people are vendors and an occasional new employee. Before the conference goes into full swing people exchange pleasantness and small talk to whittle away the time until the last straggler rushes in and the meeting can begin. The most … Read More “UPDATED — Where do I live?” »
My good pal Lance likes the Mozilla and I’ve been a fan of MSIE since Netscape lost the browser wars in 99. After years of being a faithful Microsoft browser bigot I am beginning to change the error of my ways. My first foray into the browser market was not with the descendant of Netscape … Read More “Browsing with Opera” »