development corrupts

Outsourced?

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:03:57 GMT

Ahhh okay so a while back one of you posted a review of a comedy about outsourcing, and that review compared Outsourced and one other series. I have Outsourced on my hard drive right now, and I'm trying to decide whether I should watch it. The problem is I can't remember which of the two series actually worked, and which one failed really badly.

Given the potential for fail, I'd rather skip it entirely if it's painfully bad from the outset, you know? I can get my rage quotient elsewhere!

So uh, do any of you remember ever posting about Outsourced? OR even if you didn't, do any of you know whether I should watch it or whether I should avoid it?

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:(

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:47:14 GMT

Flickr made a couple of changes, most notably removing any kind of integration with custom services, which has made it pretty useless to, so now I'm looking for another photo host.

Any ideas?

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Question about Russian!

Sun, 10 Oct 2010 15:55:10 GMT

Someone requested that I translate my "Copy Link Text" extension to Russian, and even kindly provided me some text to use! Unfortunately, it was anonymous, so I cannot respond to them to say thanks or ask my question (in case you wander by here, btw, thank you!)

Text provided is: "Копировать текст ссылки"

What I'm unsure about is whether that text is appropriate for both the context menu item (a command/action), and for the extension name (a noun?). I use the same text for both in the English, but I don't know any Russian, so I can't tell if it's appropriate in both senses in there as well.

Translation engines help with meaning but not context, so unfortunately it's not something I can check on my own *rueful*

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Some kind of injury

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:24:17 GMT

Okay, not sure what happened, but a muscle on my back, along my left shoulderblade, is hurting a lot. (It was my right yesterday, and then shifted to my left after I started babying my right).

It was probably something innocuous like I slept at a wrong angle, or something. It doesn't feel critical? permanent? But it's been hurting hard enough/for long enough that I am putting lots of thought into not aggravating it further.

( some details )

Is there any way to tell whether the massage is a good idea, or whether it could be hurting me longer term somehow? And is there any way to tell whether I'd be better off trying to move those muscles slowly and carefully over the course of the day, to keep them loose (it causes short term pain, but feels less painful long term, but I don't know if it might cause damage somehow), or else to keep that part as still as possible to avoid any further injury?

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This is not the place for answers (yet?)

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:45:37 GMT

I'm very much more a journaller than a blogger -- still, I'm taking a cue from all the activity going on around me. Are there any questions you've always wanted to ask me? Anything you want me to talk about?

(I'll be offline on vacation for a week, so the answers will be delayed at least a week *G*)

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New RAM!

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:00:44 GMT

I didn't buy it just because I was waiting, I swear...

I've been wanting to buy new RAM for a while now, but the place I was originally looking at has been out of the brand I want for months now. Hadn't had time to do the shopping until now. While I was there and looking at stuff, I also started seriously playing with the thought of buying a netbook for travel; it just needs to be strong enough to run a browser and let me SSH into my server with minimal painfulness. And also be light and small enough that I can carry it around easily, and have a good enough battery life that I don't need to constantly be looking for a wall socket to charge it -- something like an afternoon's worth, with just a bit extra allowance to be safe. Oh, and I hope to find one with no OS installed, so I don't have to go through the extra step of uninstalling Windows.

I need to do some research on what is a good balance between price and ability -- I really really am not planning on getting fancy with it! -- but I've at least gotten a feel for the price range and range of battery life etc.

I know a couple of you have netbooks. Are they worth it? (Is there any one brand I should avoid or any one I should run to? *g*)

ANYWAY my current laptop is now at 4 gigs, up from the original 2. That, plus I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard, and, well, everything is running quite zippy. We'll see how it feels after Firefox has been on a bit, but right now, I have a virtual machine running, and I don't feel it at all -- before Snow Leopard, running a VM would slow my machine down to a crawl especially on startup and shutdown. After upgrading to Snow Leopard, running a VM was doable, but it made certain actions feel slightly hmmm, sticky/tacky.

Feeling very very very cheerful at the newfound speed ^______^ (And now and now, I'm playing with the thought of running my dev env on a virtual machine, instead of SSHing to my server. Possibilities! Maybe!)

OH and also, I'm feeling quite pleased that I managed to install the RAM myself. As much as I love software, the hardware side of things intimidates me. I always worry that I'm going to break something somehow (not entirely unjustified... the first time we had a lab in electronics, I burnt out three or four cheaps -- luckily the cheap kinds). I have tried my hardest not to have to fiddle with any hardware since. And today I installed RAM on my laptop \o/

(This is the generation of macbooks where it is easy to install RAM. But I'm still quite pleased with myself ;-))

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Invites

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:12:19 GMT

A bunch of people on my reading list have been posting about their wave invites, so maybe everyone who wants one already has one, but I have 6 4 3 ALL OUT google wave invites if you need.

I also have a few Dreamwidth invites, so tell me if you want one as well :-D (Dreamwidth is a great service. I highly recommend it ^_^)

First come first serve unless you explicitly say that you want to be low priority, in which case, I'll put you at the back of the queue.

(All comments screened, but please give me your email straight off!)

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Google Wave invites

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:08:41 GMT

I have a couple of wave invites. (By a couple, I mean 5). Anyone want one?

(Will probably take a day or two for them to process, etc)

ETA: Picked names out of a hat; invites gone.

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Quick knitting question: counting cast-on stitches

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:59:14 GMT

So I'm doing the long tail cast on, as per knittinghelp.com. The very first stitch gives me two loops. Do I count that as one stitch, or two?

Google leads me to articles telling me not to count the slipknot, but since this isn't a slipknot, and I'm not sure what a slipknot looks like, I kinda really don't know.

And in other news, I finally finished my first thingy! It's a pastel candy-colored rectangular cloth (I ran out of yarn to make it squarer), complete from cast-on to bind-off, and I have just spent the past several minutes tugging at it with happy satisfaction :)

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