If anyone has the shareware version of Action Names 4.6 that you’d be willing to email me, could you leave me a comment? I regiestered version 4.6 but can’t download it anymore as they’ve moved on to Agendus.

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For those who use it, Phoenix 0.4 has just been released.

Make sure to read the warnings before installing.

EDIT: It appears to be more GTK-ish. I guess that’s a good thing, but I like the look of the older scroll and progress bars better.

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thoughts spawned from here.
Well, it had to happen eventually. Microsoft’s fames Office package is leaving user’s of it’s older operating systems in the dust. I have mixed feelings about this bu, befroe I list them, I reiterate to everyone that I’m a linux guy first.

While I can understand why MS is doing this (legacy code support in windows is killing it slowly and causing a lot of security risks), I feel MS is leaving a pretty decently sized market share behind. Many businesses don’t like upgrading if they can help it, so I know there’s more than a few still running 9x.

MS is also requiring SP3 for win2k or Win XP before you can use Office 11. For those not in the know, SP3 gives MS some pretty heavy rights to do what they want with your machine. You pretty much give MS administration rights to your pc (which, incidentally, caused me to abandon the windows platform). By all rights I hear, XP is a decent enough OS, however, I WILL NOT buy a piece of software that requires me to give up personal information or phone home before I can use it.

I imagine what they’re really trying to do is force people running older OSes to upgrade to something newer. I think what they’re going to end up doing is forcing people to either free or lower-cost alternatives such as Star Office or Open Office.

Oh well, time will tell.

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I’m working on an image gallery. Right now only a few pics are up, but more to come. Keep checking over the next few days.

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My mother-in-law and I got into an interesting discussion over the weekend. We talked about certain things relating to our privacy and it showed what she thought of the subject.

After a decently civil conversation (I’d explain, but they might read this ;), she pretty much summed up her thoughts with “I don’t really care what they do with my information as long as I get a good deal.” And I’m quoting her.

This comment scared me more than a little. Is this how the majority of people see this? Have we gotten so lazy and eager for cheap/low cost items that we’re willing to give up everything that is ourselves to get it? It’s this attitude that makes identity theft one of the highest ranking crimes in America.

Personally, I don’t even have a Kroger’s card because I’m that paranoid (remember kids, just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you). Personally, I feel that the stuff I buy is no one’s business and building statistics on me and what I buy is outside my area of comfort. But I’m paranoid.

I just hope that people wake up and see what’s going on before it’s too late.

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Oh man, what a night.

I get home from a ver exhaustive day at work to find that the window near my computer equipment (DSL modem, wireless router and 2 printers) had leaked water all over the place during th monsoon we got yesterday. After many unkind words about the owners of the aparments in which I live, I quickly begaun turning everything off, unhooking everything, then relocating everything to the dry end of the room.

Next comes the phone call to the Manager, which I made my wife do so I wouldn’t say anything I regret. They agree to send someone out to look at it.

Of course, with all of this, I still don’t know if someone came out as I had to rush my wife to the hospital becaus she was going through pretty hard contractions. Several months early. They do the tests and make sure she has medications, etc, etc. There’s 5 hours gone, but at least the wife and baby are ok.

Today, I try to re-assemble my computer equipment, between calls from the wife requesting things, and my DSL modem and my wireless route quit talking to each other. No net, no real ability to get answers. So, after 2 hours of many unkind words toward linksys and Ameritech, the modem and router magically start working.

And you thought weekends were for relaxing.

I guess the fact that all my earlier plans for the weekend bombed out is a good thing. I’m not sure I can handle any mroe of this “relaxing”.

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It’s 1:00p.m. and I’m having *the* hardest time focusing on my task list. Scratch that. I’m having *the* hardest tims just staying awake. I have a can of Red Bull on my desk, but I’m not sure I want to open that can of worms (every pun intended) as the highest level of caffinee I ingest is Mt. Dew.

To boot, I have to work on User Documentation. I HATE user documentation.

if ( $TASK == “user documentation” ) then
set Jason=bored
endif

NOTE: While writing this, I nearly drowned while drinking a Sunkist

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Funniest….Movie….Ever!

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TCFB has started a repository for free online techical ebooks. Most revolve around the opensource world, but I’m sure more will be added in the future.

[UPDATE: The site has moved to http://www.techbooksforfree.com/]

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I just caught an article on /. concerning Serial ATA technology.

I had heard things about SATA before, my motherboard already has 2 SATA connectors. However, I could never find any real information on it until now. All I can say it WOW! 600 MB/sec by 2007! You can read more about it here.

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