Uff Da!

The spam trollers will hit this, bounce to any one of 3.2 trillion randomly generated pages, and then start downloading an infinite number of completely random e-mail addresses. Once their database of e-mail addresses has been sufficiently polluted, it becomes unusable due to the high number of resources required to successfully send e-mails, and therefore […]

I don’t know when this started, but PHX now has full and free wireless access across the entire airport. I just read this morning that Denver will do the same thing starting this week, but with advertisements that will need to be clicked through in order to get to the web. So be it — […]

So, we now have control of opdahls.com again. Thanks to Registerfly and Kevin Medina we lost control for several months. There’s not much to say except to give a hearty UFF DA! and get on with life. Interested parties can read more at the Wikipedia article.
BTW, we now own opdahls.net and theopdahls.com. Anyone interested? :-)

This e-mail was just wrong on so many levels that I saved it and am posting it here for everyone to laugh at and enjoy. The names have not been changed to protect the innocent, and although I have considered the karmic effect of putting all of these harvestable addresses here, my assumption is that […]

I own MSFT as an investment, so some would say I am at cross-purposes with this post, but one has to wonder at some of the moronic things happening in Redmond. Like this…
Today Jan and I decided that (once again) we would input all of our investment data, etc., etc., into the PC and get […]

(An episode where Peter screams out loud at stupidity in the Japanese service industry…)
I’m a businessman, and businessmen (Or businesswomen, businesspeople, drunken monkeys, or lobotomized fleas for that matter…) will tell you that in order to win or keep business, you do things to make your customers’ lives easier. Japan is reknowned the world over […]

Good article here –> http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2006/03/08/chinas_wondrous_web.html

The whole Chinese take on the internet (Do I get credit — or snarls? — for the term “Chinternet? :-) ) is really amazing. I first noticed this about 4-5 years ago when taking business trips to China. It was the easiest place in the world to get […]

“A revolutionary way to send cargo into space, the LiftPort Space Elevator will consist of a carbon nanotube composite ribbon eventually stretching some 62,000 miles from earth to space. The LiftPort Space Elevator will be anchored to an offshore sea platform near the equator in the Pacific Ocean, and to a small man-made counterweight in […]

Why is it that in the United States one sometimes still cannot get a WiFi link at an airline lounge? It’s bad enough that we have to pay for them most of the time (Admitedly this is also true in Europe. There are also enlightened airlines, such as Continental, that make the service free.), but […]

It is fine to have the electrical outlet at one’s house or work under the desk, yet I think that all of us who move notebook computers around would agree that having one on the desk surface or on the wall above the desk makes it easier to connect and disconnect when necessary.
It is poor […]

This is the first of what I have unambiguously called “Ridiculous Things.” It will be a blathering (As opposed to blistering…) attack on all things ridiculous that one finds in the course of living one’s life. An entry could range from the prosaic (It’s ridiculous that the plastic bags in cereal boxes are so damn […]

And now, for a good reason I need a back-up module…

When someone with different cultural values enters this picture, there is bound to be tension. I come from a culture which looks for the horizon, for the frontier, for the places, people and things which haven’t been seen, known, or conquered. My culture places value on movement over stagnation; traditions are young and easily broken. I’m predisposed to seeking the best way, not the oldest way and there’s enough of the frontier spirit in my bones to want to see what’s over the next mountain range; to know what’s on the other side of the river; to want to find out if I can, indeed, cross the desert.

Hmm…Up to w.bloggar 4.0 now.
No problems with the install or anything (So far, that is…), but I wasn’t planning on an upgrade only a week after getting the first install running. Uff Da! I suppose if this were commercial software, I’d instead be talking about installing a patch rather than an upgrade, so I it’s […]

Andrew Harris Wines
My favorite vineyard ever (Well, so far, anyway, and it’s stayed in this spot for almost 2 years now…).
The “Vision” series is a shiraz-cabernet blend that is so dark you could use it as ink to write a novel, and it’s about as easy to sink your teeth into as a good book […]

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Hmmm…Seems to work just fine. Zempt still gives the same application error, however, so it’s something other that the xmlrpc.php file.

A big Uff Da! to WordPress. What’s the issue with not including xmlrpc.php in the distribution? Looking back through forums I see that this has been a problem since v1.2 came out this last summer? Uff Da! And the comments I see from the WordPress developers run along the lines that with the 5-minute installation […]

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OK, I’ll admit it right here — I’m a wannabe geek. I lack the training, the time, and possibly the mindset to fly with the ubergeek crowd. However (ahem…) , I’ll hold my own with the other untrained and unwashed masses and even occasionally startle an unprepared geek or two. Because I seem to push […]