Kikkoman

Heard this clip long ago, and via the power of YouTube have found it again. Its about the women’s movement, but the following part is apropos to software development.

‘WE WANT THIS! AND THAT! WE DEMAND A SHARE IN THAT, AND MOST OF THAT, SOME OF THIS, AND FUCKING ALL OF THAT! LESS OF THAT, AND MORE OF THIS, AND FUCKING PLENTY OF THIS! AND ANOTHER THING, WE WANT IT NOW! I WANT IT YESTERDAY, I WANT FUCKING MORE TOMORROW, AND THE DEMANDS WILL ALL BE CHANGED THEN SO FUCKING STAY AWAKE!’

Praise be to YouTube, 1:30 into the clip.

VPNed and RDCed in to my work computer, and I go to shut it down.   I just submitted a big changelist and my work computer has been on for at least a week.   Time to give it a break/reboot.   You know how touchy windows gets when it doesn’t get its beauty sleep.

Lo and behold, the shutdown menu when accessing the computer via RDC is replaced with “Disconnect”.   You can’t shut down the computer.

After poking around somemore trying to find a way to turn the computer off or reboot it.   I give up and do it the “hard” way.

Kill “lsass.exe”; the computer pops up a nifty dialog saying that “lsass.exe died unexpededly, rebooting in 60 seconds.”  It even gives you a countdown, which is great in a Bond villian sort of way.

OooO

Gmail has POP access which you can setup Mail.app to pull from.

Tycho at penny arcade had a rant on the Zune I particularly like. ‘He turns some good phase.’

“It’s always the wrong time to buy an MP3 player, always, which is what kept me from seriously investing in one until 2006. But I didn’t just purchase the wrong one, at the wrong time: I purchased it virtually on the brink of its dissolution. I can hardly look at it now, it’s like holding a dead squirrel. On its 4:3 screen - the exact ratio of obsolescence - I can see destroyed futures. I don’t have to tell you that the iPhone is the future of that platform, as opposed to an aberration.”

“the exact ratio of obsolescence”, wow, good stuff.

Meanwhile … there is no denying the sexyness of the iPhone … tho for $500 / $600 dollars and a contract with the devil Cingular AT&T Wireless, it can bite my shiny metal ___. It has been the topic of many conversations over the past 2 days, sufficed to say I have mixed feelings. I think it great, and I am glad I own some Apple stock, but as it stands now, I won’t be getting one.

I have an iPod mini that works great for the two “times” i use it. 1. At the gym, where I specifically won’t want to be scrolling my music with sweaty palms and potentially drop/crush/lose my device that costs as much as a PS3. And 2. sometimes in my car to listen to the NPR MarketPlace podcast. And I certainly don’t need it to play “videos”.

Remove the iPod from the iPhone and drop the price $200 and we might have a deal. Depends if Apple opens up the “platform” to 3rd party development. Signs point to No, which leaves me with of an aftertaste of Betamax that is distinctly Apple. Simultaniously, fantastic, “innovative”, “open” & …. stupid, stubborn, and “closed”.

Its like Apple has a fear of success. Like if it actually made stuff that people really wanted and that was decently affordable, they might get too much marketshare and then have to deal with the unwashed masses.

I am an individual, just like everybody else…..

Saw this site a long time ago, and just “found” it again.

I am happy to say that my personal style of cargo shorts, nice t-shirt, and then a long sleeve overshirt is not profiled.