Archive for August, 2007

Too Much Command Line

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Quickie

You know you’ve been spend­ing too much time on the cli when you keep hit­ting tab in Notepad and won­der why the auto­com­ple­tion isn’t kicking in.

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Read more | Comments (0) | Aug 31, 2007

Admiring My Tool

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

I carry a Leather­man Squirt P4 and once in a while, I take out of my pocket and set it on my desk. Either because it’s pok­ing my leg or I’m using it for some rea­son or another. Today I had it sit­ting out and was con­cen­trat­ing on our cur­rent big project, head­phones on and […]

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Read more | Comments (1) | Aug 28, 2007

Note to Self: Mixing Drinks

Posted by Mark | Filed under Quickie

We’re hav­ing some issues with the lights/power/air con­di­tion­ing in my office this morn­ing.  As I’m still try­ing to shrug off the after effects of tak­ing the lovely cough syrup last night, I had to have some cof­fee this morn­ing.  How­ever with the A/C being out, I’m start­ing to over heat and have been switch­ing from […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Aug 27, 2007

Got Medicine?

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Still bat­tling the plague, but did make it to the clinic this week­end. The won­der­ful doc­tor gave me a nice, wide-spectrum antibi­otic and even bet­ter a codeine-based cough syrup. The past week or so, I’ve been get­ting very lit­tle sleep do to this nasty plague-induced cough but with this cough syrup I slept roughly 14 […]

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Read more | Comments (2) | Aug 26, 2007

Borne Ultimatum

Posted by Mark | Filed under Elsewhere, Movies

First movie had lit­tle to no shaky cam. Sec­ond movie had enough to annoy me and trig­ger my wife’s motion sick­ness. I guess I’ll be rent­ing the third movie some day when the wife’s not around then. Thanks for the warn­ing Les! In response to SEB 30 Sec­ond Movie Reviews: “The Borne Ulti­ma­tum.” by Les.

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Read more | Comments (2) | Aug 22, 2007

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