2014-06-13
Notes
Listing to the World cup. Right now, I’m listening to a bunch of pre-game stuff on BBC. I bet they will kill the3 feed as soon as the games start for rights BS. Seems like half the hype is the 3 or 4 hundred protesters who run around getting doused with tear gas.
First goal was an own-goal by Brazill. Ouch. They tied it pretty quick though.
It is strange to listen to the BBC report on “Armed Police”. All police in the U. S. are armed.
Iraq is being taken over by a group called ISIS. They are marching south and starting on Baghdad. People are telling the US to give in and do air strikes in the name of the current government. I hear there are some plans that include US boots on the ground again. Some say it is spreading from Syra.
2014-06-12
Notes
2014-06-11
Feedly was down this morning. I use feedly for my RSS aggregator. It works pretty well for YouTube and some other key sites. It was really annoying that I hadn't backed up my RSS list in quite a while. Feedly contains all my news and vlog links. I would love to have a backup, but there just isn't one. None of the other sites present the data in a way that is just links to the frigging pages. They want to present the pages to you in some weird way to hide where it is all coming from. Some want to make it look like a newspaper for goodness sake. Found a link describing the DDoS attack they were under.
Listening to some pregame commentary about the world cup on BBC. I can’t listen to the matches on BBC because of rights. I’m not a Brit or in Britton. Blows. I have to find it in Spanish somewhere. They don’t have the IP hangups so bad.
2014-06-11
A degree is proof you can think inside the box
http://www.businessinsider.com/google-hiring-non-graduates-2013-6
2014-06-10
Lunch Conversation
Halfway through lunch Adam, my buddy from the hood, put the kibosh on the shop=-talk. Thanks Adam.
- Work
- How much better our stuff is than the competition
- How at least one of our competitors are just straight up lying about their numbers.
- The future of Tier 1 storage
- TV
- Net Neutrality
- How effective this guy sicked the trolls on the FCC web page.
- FIFA
- Religion comparison is very apt.
- Kids
- Weather
- Growing up with heat vs cold
- The place we ate had no egg pudding
- They never have
- Why is it on the menu?
- Racist comments made in the past and how things have changed.
Notes
They came round and asked who needed a new chair at my office;. I had a pretty good chair so I said no thanks. Until I sat in one of the new chairs. They have Lumbar support. They are the screen seat and back design like I have at the house. Very supportive. Soooooo, I ... swapped my chair with one of the new ones in a conference room. it is still a pretty good chair, just not quite as good for all day sitting. it was a self preservation call.
The Italians are going to include prostituti9o0n and illegal drug sales in their future calculations. They will even refigure past years. This is apparently a European rule change. I’m not sure what to think about this. It is money changing hands. The amounts are significant.
2014-06-09
Phone Company
Sprint is buying T-Mobile. I’ve looked at Sprint plans and found them lacking. Well, found the extremely expensive. I think they are on par with Verizon. I will go back to Virgin or try Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart uses T-Mobile for the moment, but that will obviously change. Nat will be pissed. She hated Virgin. I’ll give her a stipend for her and Elle every month for phones and go from there.
I am so friggin sick of companies getting bought out that I use. I must have a talent for picking the phone company that gets bought out. It is always worse after the buyout.
In the nineties, my savings and loan needed to get bought out. I got screwed then too. It seemed to me at the time the new bank didn’t want my business. I ended up moving to some other financial institution.
These companies seem to think I’m sitting on a big pile of cash, pointing at them and laughing. They act like I refuse to part with it for services rendered. No, I just straight up cannot afford their prices. I have no choice in the matter. Very little choice anyway. I’ll have to go back to paying every month.
Notes
Some of the lab machines at work just plane stop talking to the network. You can’t log in externally nor will let let you log in as anyone other than straight up root at the console. This is really annoying because it happened when the new parent company made us switch to their kind of login structure. They said it is more secure, but I’m just not sure. Just have to go hold in the power button and wait. That seems to fix it, but that kills anything you had running on the box of course.
Which president signed copyright in to law in the U. S.? Washington. It was for 14 years and could be renewed for another 14 if the author was still alive.
2014-06-07
2014-06-05
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