Reality TV

I don't know a whole lot about the whole reality TV show craze, (I actually haven't seen a single one) but since this is a blog, I feel liberated to spout my views on the subject.
There is an article in the Pittsburgh paper a couple of days ago regarding a former Pittsburgh priest, who has moved to England and is now doing a reality TV show about revitalizing an aging Anglican parish. (More)
Posted by jondaley on February 10, 2005, 8:59 am | Read 575 times | Comments (1)
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The Software Conspiracy

"If McDonalds were run like a software company, one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning ... and the response would be "we're sorry, here's a coupon for two more..." -- The Software Conspiracy
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Posted by jondaley on February 9, 2005, 10:17 am | Read 459 times | Comments (0)
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All Natural

Today's comic in Jon's Dilbert page-a-day calendar has Dogbert saying "Hello, this is Dogbert's All-Natural and Holistic Tech Support. . .Try stuffing tree bark in the CD drive and meditating. . . No, of course it won't damage anything, it's all natural!" (More)
Posted by joyful on February 5, 2005, 2:25 pm | Read 636 times | Comments (3)
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Web Washer

I just realized that I haven't ever mentioned my Windows HTTP proxy server that I use. (More)
Posted by jondaley on January 14, 2005, 10:51 am | Read 794 times | Comments (0)
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Bright Starts Chase 'n' Play Turtle

Jonathan got this toy for Christmas. He and the other kids who come over like it a lot. This review will have positives, negatives, and funnies. (More)
Posted by joyful on January 13, 2005, 6:29 pm | Read 953 times | Comments (0)
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Gorgeous Day

Almost all of the windows in the house are wide open, a fresh breeze is pouring in, and the sun is shining! Invigorating!
Posted by joyful on January 13, 2005, 10:18 am | Read 587 times | Comments (0)
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Version Manager Setup

Whether you know the program as Merant, Serena or PVCS, the setup is difficult, and despite the sales department insistence that you don't need a full-time person to run their servers, I am starting to doubt it. Here are the instructions to setup a new project using the file server model with split archives. (More)
Posted by jondaley on December 1, 2004, 1:14 pm | Read 3301 times | Comments (12)
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Mis-communication Companies

Our DSL went down and Jon called me and did a three way with Speakeasy to see what was going on. After trying a couple of things that did not work, Jon mentioned that it was raining, but not lightning. I went to the window to check things out, and I saw a Verizon guy up at the telephone pole. (More)
Posted by joyful on November 19, 2004, 11:30 am | Read 796 times | Comments (0)
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Flabbergasted Cable Guy

A Comcast guy came to the door yesterday. (More)
Posted by joyful on November 18, 2004, 9:09 am | Read 769 times | Comments (3)
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Internet Connection

People at work have finally gotten sick of the lack of support from our IT department. Their FTP site was not operable the other day, and a sales guy needed to get some files for a meeting, so R&D purchased its own FTP site so we would be able to manage it, rather than depend on IT to get it working again. We just purchased it for a month, so then we could evaluate it after the month is over. The month has now run out, and so R&D decided to instead pay for my internet connection, and then I can run the server for them. Pretty nifty.
Posted by jondaley on October 26, 2004, 1:10 pm | Read 658 times | Comments (1)
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Dermatologist and Philosophical Rambling

I went to a dermatologist this morning to have a mole removed and a small skin lump checked out. My referring doctor said this dermatology practice is the best in Pittsburgh. However, I really am getting more and more disillusioned with medical practice as we know it. (More)
Posted by joyful on October 21, 2004, 1:27 pm | Read 948 times | Comments (3)
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Version Control Comparison

I have been evaluating different version control programs for my company for the last month or two. My current evaluation is that all of them are broken, although I hope to discover a good solution someday soon. (More)
Posted by jondaley on October 15, 2004, 2:42 pm | Read 15709 times | Comments (35)
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Jack Ganssle

Jack Ganssle is a conference speaker and has a monthly newsletter that I have been subscribed to for a couple years. He wrote an article called, A Boss's Guide to Software Process Improvement that I found myself agreeing with the majority of it.
Posted by jondaley on October 6, 2004, 1:52 pm | Read 842 times | Comments (0)
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Speakeasy

Speakeasy is my DSL provider. Snurgle.org also uses them, so that is how I heard about them. We have been using them for a year or so, and the ten times or so that I had to open a customer support ticket, it has gone quite well, and fairly fast response time (within a couple of days at the most). (More)
Posted by jondaley on October 5, 2004, 8:29 am | Read 1345 times | Comments (0)
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Citibank

I signed up with Citibank/Mastercard my freshman year in college. I used to sign up for stuff on campus quite often, as they would give me various free things, t-shirts, radios, $100 gift certificates, etc.  (More)
Posted by jondaley on October 5, 2004, 8:25 am | Read 1208 times | Comments (0)
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