I often whine about stupid people. Especially at work. There’s one guy though whose magnitude of stupidity outshines the rest. It’s as if his vocation is deconstructing knowledge and and sensibility, and takes pride in his craft. For the purpose of anonymity we’ll call him Val Polikoff%. The extra ASCII character should mask his name sufficiently. He was our main contact at one of our larger customers, Symbol Technologies% (again, masked to give the company some privacy). Any time they would have some kind of weird networking issue that Val would call us on, we’d have to spend a day or two of what few spare resources we have to sort through it. It would invariably turn out that it was Val who had messed it up. Making “shortcuts†on routing tables or adding crap rules to access control lists. If he would have called us up and said “guys, I fucked up. Please un-fuck my network†it would have been less annoying. Anyways, I came into work this morning and found this:
click me
on one of the other operators’ desks. It made me smile. And I haven’t even had coffee yet. Apparently Symbol% is as sick of him as we are.
Originally published at The IggBlog. You can comment here or there.
I have to wonder what was going through the heads of the engineers that designed my cellphone when some of the “features” activate. For example, when the battery is low the phone will vibrate every minute or so alerting me to this fact. Thus wearing down the battery even more. This event also triggers all the keypad and display lights to activate. Wearing down the battery. This happens every 2-3 minutes while the battery is low, making short work of whatever little power it has left. There is no way to disable this “feature”. Outstanding thinking, I applaud the designers.
Originally published at The IggBlog. You can comment here or there.
So I put some finishing touches on my photo album script yesterday. I had a couple epiphanies after spewing forth some boring nerd-babble at her (that she’s so good at putting up with). She gave me some suggestions on fit and finish that my eyes didn’t catch too. Taking this script from its original form and making it do what I wanted it to do was a great learning experience. I thought I’d post it up for the few of you that might find it interesting or useful. Feel free to use/change etc.
The script
The original
A glance at both will show I’ve added quite a bit. My script auto-generates thumbnails and stores them in a common directory instead of downloading each pic and scaling them to a suitable thumbnail size. In a directory with more than 10 pics or so it brought my pathetic upstream to a halt. I also made it represent directories with icons (instead of “not at all”) to make browsing easier. I had to split up the image subtypes to make animated GIF thumbnails behave nicely. The script is still a kludge and could probably use some refinement, but I thought I’d post it up since a few people have commented that it makes a nice slick image page.
Check out this picture directory starring my old CRX to see how it looks (I reccommend not browsing around the directories much, as many directories have images from random places on the internet that contain nasty words and such). It’s nothing flashy but does its job very well for a simple script written by a noob.
Originally published at The IggBlog. You can comment here or there.
I made a new image for the front end of iggdawg.com. I just wanted something (anything) to replace the boring text file that I had there. Its prime function seemed to be deterring random travellers from actually entering the site. So I surfed till I found something to make fun of the internet with. Since the internet IS a series of tubes, and I fix the internet for a living, I figure this image shows what it must be like to do my job:
http://www.iggdawg.com/pics/the_internet.jpg
Right now it’s just a link that leads to that new blog I mentioned till I get some form of interesting content.
Originally published at The IggBlog. You can comment here or there.
For a long while I’ve listened to the industrial stream over at Rant Radio to get my industrial/synth fix. Recently the stuff they’ve been playing has been too caustic though, they’re moving to more crunchy noisy material that really doesn’t appeal to me. I was going over to Digitally Imported, my other “stock” electronica outlet, to hook my bad self up with some psytrance or something. It turns out Digitally Imported just started a future/synthpop stream so I thoght I’d check it out. It’s actually pretty good. It’s a lot like Rant Radio used to be a few years ago. Lots of stuff they don’t play on RR anymore since they’ve replaced half their playlist with noise. If any of you out there are into industrial/synth, check out the stream here
EDIT – Plugging IPM radio as mentioned in the comments. Again if you’re into the genre deff check these guys out. Their playlists are much less repetitive than either of the above sources. I find more new material from IPM than any other source. I thought they were just a weekend show, but I’ve been schooled.
Originally published at The IggBlog. You can comment here or there.
I was bebopping through the internets today and ran across this article:
Johnson & Johnson sues American Red Cross over use of emblem
This seems reasonable to me. It’s about time big pharma found another non-profit organization they could really sink their teeth into. And who better than those shifty bastards at the Red Cross? Why just the other day I saw bullies from the Red Cross clubbing puppies at the local shelter. They were sporting their telltale gang colors, all black with a big red cross on the back. I can see why Johnson and Johnson would not want to be associated with this manner of knavery.
Originally published at The IggBlog. You can comment here or there.
Reposting this since it the crossposting utility I use doesn’t seem to be triggering things to post on my friends page. And since this is announcing my new source blog I thought it worth reposting =P. I’ll try to work out why it’s not populating your friends page with my trash for future posts. For now, tell me if this IS a repost for you, since that would mean everything is working =P. So yeah. New link, then copypasta of old post
http://www.iggdawg.com/blog/index.php (yes, I know it’s still boring atm)
So I’m going to start doing the blog thing on my own server. Ain’t that some shit? It’s very conveniently located here at IggBlog. I’ll still be reading other peopels’ pages, and reading/responding to comments, here at LJ. I’m vain enough to want to read what people have to say to me, but not so vain to think that they’re actually going to register on my site. That’s my story.
Originally published at The IggBlog. You can comment here or there.
So I’m going to start doing the blog thing on my own server. Ain’t that some shit? It’s very conveniently located here at IggBlog. I’ll still be reading other peopels’ pages, and reading/responding to comments, here at LJ. I’m vain enough to want to read what people have to say to me, but not so vain to think that they’re actually going to register on my site. That’s my story.
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As far as I’m concerned, the internet can take modern memes and beat them with the ugly-stick of my childhood all it wants. Images behind the cut were stolen from Anonymous.
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Is monday like VeteranLaborWashingtonKingJr day or something? Everyone’s taking friday (today) off. I lose track of holiday mondays since I haven’t been with a company that observes them in years.
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