ProductivityWindows

SlickRun

I have quickly grown quite fond of this program. It is a free Windows program, similar in concept to the commercial app ActiveWords which I demoed for a while, but it never stuck with me for some reason. It's basically a little...
GeneralRants

More oncall fun

Monday was a doozy of a day and the fun continued yesterday. First, the pager went off about 5 times during a meeting. Then when someone commented on it after the meeting, I jokingly pretended to give an OfficeSpace-style...
General

I’m on call this week

Yesterday, some misconfigured servers at another ISP hammered Yahoo. We actually thought it was a DOS attack. I got 393 pages in < 30 minutes. I can still hear the sound of the pager, hammered into my head. Bleargh.
GadgetsWindows

Skype

I tried Skype yesterday. I haven't had a successful two-sided conversation with it, but that is not the fault of Skype. I bought some adapters from Radio Shack to convert my 2.5" headset jack to two 1/8" jacks, but I suspect I...