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lol just a t-shirt pent? is the vid of your steve ballmer parody still around?

developers developers developers!
rodinal and ID-11 and microdol and diafine!

lol robes

pent even matched the plaid blazer back then, it was his first job or something close to that.

fu wrote: lol just a t-shirt pent? is the vid of your steve ballmer parody still around?

I'm trying to get that company to commission five more videos. It's still one of their most popular pieces. I now even have the glasses and awful 80's Trinicon camera to go with the shtick.

do it!

get syb dressed with a steadicam vest or maybe have him drumming on the side and go crazy :D

Spent most of the morning trying to understand more about passing data and objects between Activities in Android Java. Which took me past Java's serializer, Android's packager and greenrobot's EventBus. During and after I watched 'En Un Momento Dado" - a lovely documentary about Johan Cruyff - to cheer me up.



Best I get back to Android Studio now. Yay

Well, I've just spent a pointless 3 hours taking my family for a meal at a local pub after work. The great thing about this pub, is, the garden is enclosed so you do feel a bit safer with the kids. BUT...
Not only did it start taking a rather annoying time, when it arrived my steak was absolutely without a doubt the worse steak I have ever had.. In my life.. In fact the waitress asked if I was joking when I said.. "This is without doubt the worst steak I have ever had.. IN MY LIFE.. I've had this small cut in my mouth for 20 seconds chewing away and it's come out exactly the same as when it when it.. It's tougher than John Wayne!"

I'm not even sure now it was Steak...

Sitting at the Sydney airport.

Mouching through the shed with my kids.. have found so far a set of Walki-Talkies (but no charger yet), binoculars, a PSION Series 3a that we put batteries in and it worked fine and an SGI 540 that I though was in the loft. Also found the remote control to my fathers Sound bar.. he lives 5 miles away.. WHY is it in my shed???

Bit of porn.. bit of horror channel.. bit of moving 20 PC's to the new domain at work... APART FROM ONE!! ONE CLUSTER FSCK !! One cluster fsck who after multiple emails attaining to the said domain transfer to NOT turn their computer off on Friday the 13ths May.. TURNED HIS OFF!!! It would be nice that I had set up each PC to wake on lan.. but I never, and I have to go in tomorrow! MY fault for not thinking about people not doing as they are told.

Well, for this, he will at least suffer from remote shut downs at the worst time and I might even delete the occasional important file! (of cause I'd copy it to some location first and claim I saved his life... ) this from a guy that gave me 6.5 out of ten for a perfect cuppa just because the cup wasn't to the brim!.. GRRRRRR!!!

Porn is good though!

Sounds like Friday the 13th is bad luck!

uunix wrote: Bit of porn.. bit of horror channel.. bit of moving 20 PC's to the new domain at work... APART FROM ONE!! ONE CLUSTER FSCK !! One cluster fsck who after multiple emails attaining to the said domain transfer to NOT turn their computer off on Friday the 13ths May.. TURNED HIS OFF!!! It would be nice that I had set up each PC to wake on lan.. but I never, and I have to go in tomorrow! MY fault for not thinking about people not doing as they are told.

Well, for this, he will at least suffer from remote shut downs at the worst time and I might even delete the occasional important file! (of cause I'd copy it to some location first and claim I saved his life... ) this from a guy that gave me 6.5 out of ten for a perfect cuppa just because the cup wasn't to the brim!.. GRRRRRR!!!

I found a few weeks back that you can never, ever trust people at work when it comes to simple matters like these.

We've been migrating from an ancient file server to a new storage solution recently. As the old server was severely ancient, very slow, and had 9TB on it, we decided to perform the migration in stages. We did a test migration first of everything and ran tests with some of the key users to ensure it worked, then we re-synced several folders and sent out a communication across the business clearly detailing that the migration was happening in stages, and listing a limited number of shares which had been moved.

So far, so good, and no complaints when we turned off the first batch of old shares. The following week, we migrated the second pile of folders across and sent the second communication out. Then, we received a worried e-mail from a user "a load of my files have disappeared". Turns out he ignored the part of out communication saying "this is a phased transition across several weeks", never bothered to check and see which shares had been migrated, and instead had decided to re-map *all* of his shares to the new server (the new server uses a root share with permissions to manage access to sub-folders, and his share had some permissions left over from the earlier testing phase).

Hence, when we'd re-synced the next batch of folders prior to the second stage of migrations, this had nuked all the stuff he'd been working on for the past week and was saving to the wrong place. Cue lots of scrabbling around with backups, lots of wasted time, and stern words from our regional IT leader to the guy about the importance of not making blind assumptions when it comes to company data.

Sitting in Helsinki and preparing for half marathon. Will be hard as have not trained almost at all this year.

I ran one time 5 kilometers last week and it felt pretty bad.

theinonen wrote: Sitting in Helsinki and preparing for half marathon. Will be hard as have not trained almost at all this year.

I ran one time 5 kilometers last week and it felt pretty bad.

I feel you. I did 8km on Wednesday after 4 months without running and I thought my heart was coming out of my mouth.

Ran 6.5 miles in and around long beach CA today. Was a good time

Skied 10 days in a row at A-Basin in Summit County, Colorado, got back last night. Legs feel like lead but was also a good time.

I'm wondering whether I should boot redbox and hide in the imperfect yet familiar world of the 1990's or spend the rest of the day continuing the catch-up I've been doing wrt. 'mobile first' and its partner in crime 'responsive design'.

What you should do is shoot anyone who says "mobile first," and then explain to them as they lay dying that webpages that are actually designed sensibly as webpage and not as glorified print advertisements are already responsive.

I only ever browse the web on my mobile device, and I think we (desktop-avoiding users) are fast becoming the majority. I have a mac for work-stuff but work-stuff rarely involves web browsing.

I would rather use a desktop version of a site on my phone than a poorly designed mobile site. So, yes, they should be putting effort into this area. As somebody who makes the vast majoirty of his purchases over the internet (incl. clothes, groceries, various sundries for the shop, airline, hotels, cars, etc). It all works on a mobile device.

If I want to buy something and your site does not work on my phone or even ipad I will gleefully go to a competitor. I just purchased a Kemper fume extractor (smartmaster) because they had a site that worked well on mobile, far better than their competitors. The video sold me. http://kemperamerica.com/filtration-units/smartmaster/ Although technically, I purchased over the phone, they actually answered and were very friendly. (what is better than not having a phone number listed is having one where nobody answers or calls back)


I disagree about apps being where it's at, tho. There are enough good mobile sites out there to prove that a native app is not necessary. (Looking at you, Freshdesk! )