September 2009
8 posts
Boo Rhymes
Yesterday I was singing a silly song with Boo, involving making up verses about each family member. I was pleased with my effort at a rhyme for Kathryn: bathroom. But Boo required that we do that one over, and insisted that I had to rhyme with Kathryn. I protested that I couldn’t think of any words that rhyme exactly with Kathryn, so Boo patiently listed some for me: “tathryn, sathryn,...
Nostalgic for server log analysis
Basing your Web analytics exclusively on data collected via client-side mechanisms built from ambitious Javascript and faerie duste is rather like basing your weather reports on information collected from everyone’s toaster ovens.
Why is this one purple?
Notice: the photos from the company picnic do not need to have sepia-tone, infrared, vignette shadows, rough film gate edges, pretend Polaroid frames, or other “effects” randomly applied to them.Thank you for your cooperation. P.S. Scrapbooking should not be your entire way of life.
Attention creators of stock photography and...
There is no need to create any new versions of the following images:
Handshake closeup, even with different skin colors
Dynamic young businessman on a cellphone, even if she’s a businesswoman
Someone looking over the shoulder of a laptop user and pointing out something on the screen
Stacks of bills or piles of loose change
Plus: 822,587,214 other types.
Just. Stop.
Blasphemous Punks?
So I’m trying to save a file to my hard drive. An alternate version of an application entry page, so I call it index2.shtml. It tells me that already exists. I don’t remember creating such, but I try index3.shtml. Already exists. Then index4.shtml - same thing. I try index29.shtml and it claims that it exists. So just for my own amusement I try calling it...
Helpful Message
I love useful, informative error messages that guide one through the use of an application. This is not one of them:
NOTIFYWN_OTEX_LLDS_082803: cidaemon.exe - Application Error
The Instruction at "0x7c34240d' referenced memory at '0x00000000". The memory could not be "written".
This came up with no indication of what application or component it had to do with, and had to be clicked twice before...