Posts Tagged ‘Software’

Miranda IM

At my office we are required to be on an IM client for the entire work day. This is partly due to the com­pany hav­ing mul­ti­ple offices and partly due to some peo­ple work­ing from home. In any case I did not much care for the client they had installed for me (Tril­lian Basic 31) […]

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Installing new, quirky apps under Linux

First off, you need to go through a bit of a cul­tural shift. When you’re look­ing for/at quirky, lit­tle apps; you should be for the Linux version.Secondly, installing and main­tain­ing all your apps under Linux tends to be eas­ier than under Win­dows. Yes, I said eas­ier. In Win­dows, you find appli­ca­tion “XYZ” on a website. […]

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Finally Upgrading

Ever since I heard Word­Press was going to release 2.0.x; I’ve been plan­ning my upgrade. Unfor­tu­nately RL kept inter­fer­ring. Once I got my RL mostly set­tled down, I started work­ing on those upgrade plans again. But then so many new/cool/wowser themes and plu­g­ins were com­ing out that I ended up scrap­ping and restart­ing my plans […]

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Sweet New Job

While it is CB.Net’s pol­icy to not talk about work issues; I do feel the need to pass along a bit of good news today. I received an offer for employ­ment with a new com­pany. In two weeks, I will hold the posi­tion of Data Ana­lyst rather than that of a Soft­ware Tester. It’s a […]

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Trying to lose my business? (Part 2)

Per­haps I am old-fashioned but I feel when you say you are going to do some­thing, then you should do it. Case in point, this morn­ing I dropped the car off at the deal­er­ship to get that shift­ing prob­lem fixed. I dropped it off at approx­i­mately 7:45 AM CST (-06:00 GMT). My appoint­ment to have […]

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