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I’m baaaack!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Quizzes

My inter­net con­nec­tion went down over the week­end and I ended up tak­ing a half-day of vaca­tion so I could be around for my appoint­ment with the repair guy from 1–5. *grumpf* Why can’t they make appoint­ments like nor­mal peo­ple (e.g. 3–4)? Any­ways, as you can see my inter­net con­nec­tion has finally been fixed and […]

Tags: email, HAL, Quiz, reading, repair, vacation, weekend, writing

Read more | Comments (0) | Apr 18, 2005

Adagio Teas

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

As men­tioned pre­vi­ously, I signed up with Ada­gio Teas for their Link Reward offer. Over the week­end I received an email from one of their reps, thank­ing me for the link and say­ing that my reward was on the way. Pri­vately, I was hav­ing doubts as my track record with free­bies, trial offers and rebates […]

Tags: coffee, email, home, Links, offer, office, quotes, sound, trial, videos, water, weekend

Read more | Comments (2) | Apr 12, 2005

Yesterday

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Life, Site News

Bah, I’m still a bit torked off about yes­ter­day. At work1, there’s been a per­son who keeps send­ing up emails with the wrong code in the sub­ject line. We use these codes to route the issues to the cor­rect per­son and putting the wrong code on the email can mean a delay of at least […]

Tags: broken, Code, dinner, dvd, email, HAL, home, iPod, linux, medicine, moving, nasty, problem, series, soup, Video Games, videos, windows, writing

Read more | Comments (1) | Jan 28, 2005

Yesterday

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

*UGH* That was a looooooooooooong day. The night before, I’d headed to bed around 11 (slighly early for me) think­ing I was bit a head of the game. Boy was that ever the wrong thing to be think­ing. I layed down in bed and then tossed & turned for the next 5 hours with­out ever […]

Tags: Apple, coffee, dinner, driving, email, Food, funny, home, Japan, Links, Movies, offer, office, sleep, tla, toys, Wife, writing

Read more | Comments (0) | Nov 6, 2004

F’ing Management

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Rants

Today was a bril­lant exam­ple of why man­age­ment sucks. I was work­ing mer­rily along1 test­ing a par­tic­u­lar area of the soft­ware. Then I had to tele­con­fer­ence –he said with extreme venom and hatred– into a meet­ing for a test­ing project that I’m not cur­rently work­ing on but that I would much, much rather be on. […]

Tags: crap, email, office, problem, Software, suck

Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 19, 2004