Random Bytes...by Ross Rader :: Stream of thoughtlessness

Wednesday, July 18

[01:57PM EDT] Its been a while since I used this feature.

[01:52PM EDT] ServerPoint Introduces Blog Service

ServerPoint Introduces Blog Service:
July 18, 2007 -- ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider ServerPoint announced on Tuesday that it has introduced a Wordpress blog hosting service.

Tuesday, March 14

[06:57PM EST] Dick for Prez? During the Global News National broadcast this evening, Mike Newman referred to Dick Cheney as the U.S. President. It wasn't too long ago that no one would have corrected him. Dick seems to have taken a back seat over the last 18-24 months though.

Wednesday, March 8

[11:15AM EST] Salim Ismail writes that he's moving on from PubSub "PubSub is about to go into its next phase and I'm separating from the company, so my email address won't work anymore. when I started PubSub, it was always the intent to build it to a certain point and then leave to do my next venture. After four years (internet years, no less), that time has come." Good luck Salim - it was a pleasure working with you at PubSub. I'm looking forward to learning more about your next venture.

[10:39AM EST] Headlines, it turns out, are useful The javascript conversion tool that I'm using lacks some flexibility. It doesn't give me the option not to display headlines, which I prefer not to, so I'm being forced to write them in. This is actually just another test. Enjoy! :)

[10:34AM EST] Welcome to my MiniBlog. I'm using Blogware's very cool moblogging functionality to create the entries in a subcategory of the main blog and then parsing the RSS into the gutter of the main blog using an RSS to Javascript tool. I'll be using this to plow through little bits and small observations, links that people send to me, et al. Nothing serious. You can aggregate this feed from http://www.byte.org/blog/sot/index.xml if you are so inclined. Be warned - I won't be using headlines all that often.

Tuesday, January 11

[05:54PM EST] This is an Example of why I bought a blackberry... --rader

Monday, November 22

[10:54AM EST] Adding RSS Headlines to my navigation has increased the visibility of messages that would otherwise languish in sub-categories. The fact is, people don't really browse sub-categories, so unless everything is on the main page (which on this blog, it isn't) people generally won't see it. For the last seven days the article appearing just before this one in the "Stream of Thoughtlessness" category is one of my top ten most popular articles for the last seven days. Neat eh?

Thursday, March 25

[02:16PM EST] Joey - make a note to add drop shadows to your call-outs in the screen caps you do for the manual. flat looks yicky ;)

Friday, March 19

[12:05PM EST] this is a test for jame demonstrating moblogging.

Wednesday, March 10

[12:17PM EST] "RSS by any other name

would smell as sweet."

Friday, February 20

[04:14PM EST] I swear, some days

I have the attention span of a nano-gnat. That probably explains why I'm posting this instead of doing what I'm supposed to be doing. In pondering what the heck I was supposed to be doing after I was interuppted I began to ponder my attention span and then I began to ponder a post about it and the tragedy is. I still have no clue what I was originally working on before I was interrupted. Agh.

[later: I memembered.]

Wednesday, January 7

[04:30PM EST] this is a w.bloggar 3.03 test via xml-rpc

Friday, December 19

[03:46PM EST] Duran Duran should do a cover of The Red Hot Chili Peppers latest single, "Fortune Faded" - especially now that they are on their 25th anniversay tour...

Saturday, December 13

[06:11AM EST] On my first day of vacation, I woke up at 5:30 AM. Need to have a chat with my timekeeper.

Friday, December 12

[08:43AM EST] We got some snow this morning. I thought for sure that it was going to mess up the drive in, but the snow stopped earlier and is already starting to melt.

[12:07AM EST] It seems that the train is starting to leave the station. Neat.

Wednesday, November 26

[05:48PM EST] Hooked up gprs this afternoon. It works amazing. Fido prices things out at three cents per k, which lets me get into the gprs game without having to pop for the fifty dollars per month super account unless i actually need to. This message has been brought to you via fido gprs :)

Tuesday, November 25

[11:28AM EST] Hello. world.

[11:11AM EST] This is a test of the new treo.

Monday, November 24

[02:21PM EST] *bing*

[02:18PM EST] We have a door bell on the front door of the office so that the receptionist can actually do other things instead of constantly worrying about who might wander in off the street. All employee's have smartkeys that give us access to the building without the need for a regular key or ring the doorbell, but our delivery people don't. Which means that everytime a delivery person shows up, they need to ring the door bell. Guess who is going bonkers everytime the doorbell rings today - salivating, the whole nine yards.

[01:58PM EST] I ordered a smartphone on Thursday and its supposed to arrive today. It didn't show up with this morning's fedex stuff for some reason, which means it should show up this afternoon. The delay is driving me bonkers.

Saturday, October 11

[10:52PM EDT] Why is Spiderman in "The Italian Job"? Spidey is in a crowdshot in the scene where they drop the armored truck through the street and into the subway.

Tuesday, October 7

[04:10PM EDT] Cuecat giving away barcode scanners was about as logical as Purina giving away puppies.

[12:37PM EDT] screw outliners. I have been trying to integrate outliners into my practice for about a year. I have, effective immediately, given up on this quest. More, in great detail, later.

Monday, October 6

[02:12PM EDT] why is it that "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?

[02:10PM EDT] Back from bloggercon and having been sufficiently inspired by Dave's continued enthusiasm for the model and sufficiently disappointed by the lack of alternate tools, I've decided to give Radio another shot - this time, purely as an outliner. Blogware talks enough of the same language as Radio that the two tools should work well together - even if they don't, I'm more interested in using a good outliner than I am finding another weblogging tool. Blogware should keep me happy for a while ;)

Thursday, October 2

[10:41AM EDT] The founder of the company just called me a "biatch". One of the reasons I still work here after ten years. The constant praise and positive reinforcement really keeps me motivated.

[09:38AM EDT] Why are you IN a movie, but you are ON TV?

Wednesday, October 1

[09:06PM EDT] Create. Consume. Converse.

[07:56PM EDT] Watch. Think. Code. Launch. Repeat.

Sunday, September 28

[08:27PM EDT] Where did... ...the weekend go?

Thursday, September 18

[09:24PM EDT] I wonder what bill cosby is up to nowadays.

[03:20PM EDT] Yay! Weekend starts in a second! (taking the day off tomorrow).

Wednesday, September 17

[07:51AM EDT] the test posts are all related to the new moblog support that we've created. in the last twelve hours or so, I've been able to test post via mail and post via SMS - there are still a few bugs to be worked out before we roll this out to all users, but it does work quite nicely nonetheless. more as it happens....[via mail]

[07:47AM EDT] This morning thing is sometimes good, sometimes bad. it was really good in the summer when the sun was starting to rise at this time of the day and it was getting warm outside. this time of the year, its still dark outside and not getting any warmer. I've been here a 1/2 an hour and now its time to go outside for the daily loop. I should be doing this inside. Time for a gym membership. (this was originally published at 6:20am, but I'm actually using it as a test post meaning that I've had to republish it a few times since ;)

Tuesday, September 16

[10:21PM EDT] more stuff

[10:11PM EDT] is this live?

[09:15PM EDT] Visa is starting to market their "Verified by VISA" initiative on television, and
presumably elsewhere.

[07:43PM EDT] zoom, zoom, za-zoom!

[07:41PM EDT] zoom, zoom!

[07:40PM EDT] zoom

Friday, August 22

[06:51AM EDT] this album is still kicking ass. too bad I can't leave it cranked all day. /time is a slippery fishknot.../

[06:49AM EDT] Chris Bolton gets a hero cookie for not only being here at 6:30, but mainly for being here at 6:30 on a day when I forgot my security key ;)

[06:48AM EDT] someone mentioned to me this AM that its hard to figure out where to leave comments on my blog....true? untrue? I'd be interested in hearing from others on this....

Thursday, August 21

[08:51PM EDT] The Amazing Race is one of the few pleasures in my cable free world. Love it.

[03:37PM EDT] i'm having a really hard time with all of the "this is the end of the internet" and "this is the end of email" posts making the rounds. the fact of the matter is that it isn't terribly hard to stay organized email wise - i get a ton of mail everyday myself - and like most people, its mostly spam. But with the help of a trusty mailer, a whack of mail filters and a decent anti-spam methodology my inbox runneth over with realmail and my trashcan overfloweth with spam and stuff I dont want. no problem here. and i'm one of those crazies that has no problem sticking my email address in a million and six publix places. i don't like spam, but its hard to whine about it when i dont see it. maybe I should formalize these notes into a real post and outline exactly what my spam processing tools do for me...

Wednesday, August 20

[12:11PM EDT] Hello World. Neat - a year from now, I can point to this article and say "exactly one year ago at noon, we turned on the juice.". This is probably post #1500. (nope, its 1504. ;)

[11:39AM EDT] Hrm. The link *does work.

[11:37AM EDT] "Last Updated: Thursday, 14-Dec-2000 13:28:34 EST By: Jay van de Wint" - the link probably won't work for you.

Tuesday, August 19

[12:18PM EDT] What is it that some men find so mystifying about urinals? It is a receptacle, not a reflector. Things are supposed to go in a stay in. If this presents an insurmountable percpetual challenge, the one really should be sitting down anyways for fear of hurting oneself in other ways.

[09:44AM EDT] I've received 15 virii via email today. Well, 15 notices from Tucows antivirus email checker thingy that there has been 15 attempts to send me virii. Anyways, that's not the point. The point is, based on my read of the headers, someone in ICANN circles has a virus and is serious infecting other people in the ICANN circle. Which is rebounding out to other users in the ICANN circle. I'll give you a rough count of the total later today.

Monday, August 18

[01:00PM EDT] maria says that the UPS isn't making a lot of noise and adrian says that everything is fine because the little LED panel on the front of it says so. I think that this thing is big enough to take us all out if it goes up. We'll see who has the last laugh when we're drenched in flaming PCB's.

[12:52PM EDT] Our UPS is making a lot of noise...

[12:14PM EDT] It's Back! I'm still not switching off of Firebird.

[10:32AM EDT] Stream of Thoughtlessness is working again. I monkeyed a bit with the category template from the "newdefault" set. Hopefully I'll get back into the habit of using the category again. Now I just need a per category bubble control knob.