Posted by joe on 12/31/2004
Velociman posted an entry expressing pride in his garbage men. They sound like nice, competent guys. I have the garbagemen from Hell. Perhaps it isn’t them I should blame; perhaps the sizzling incompetence of their large organized crime family corporate refuse hauling company is what pisses me off to no end. But the guys on [...]
Posted by joe on 12/31/2004
Does anyone find this as hysterical as I do? Someone who used to work for the United Nations is getting in a huff because the U.S. and three other nations are coordinating tsunami relief efforts without the U.N. Not only is this individual upset about the four-nation effort, but she contradicts herself as well. The [...]
Posted by joe on 12/31/2004
I’ve been a Bellsouth DSL customer for a long time and recently began experiencing issues with web pages loading and other Internet-related activity. The problem occurs in the IP address lookup process that’s part of any ‘Net request. For the uninitiated, this occurs when you open your web browser and click that bookmark/favorite or type [...]
Posted by joe on 12/31/2004
David Coursey of eWeek, a IT trade publication, wrote an interesting opinion column making a big demand of Microsoft. According to Coursey, Microsoft should buy a large security software company, like Symantec, then give the software away to Windows users to stop the spread of viruses, spam and spy/adware. I’m not so sure that Symantec [...]