Update on previous rant on usability
As it turns out, after having spent far too much time trying to debug this, I found a bug in Kopete that was causing the problems with using a SOCKS proxy in KDE. Along the way, I learned that a SOCKS proxy feature is built right into SSH!!! ssh -D causes SSH to act as a SOCKS 4/5 proxy!! Now that is sweet!!
It’s the little things, like usability
I’ve been banging my head against the wall for a good couple of hours and had to vent….
WordPress design and you (I’m bored again with mine)
I knew it was coming.
WordPress and e-mail notification
So, one thing that I’ve found lacking in WordPress is the ability to be notified when somebody has replied to your comments on someone else’s blog. And, not surprising, there is a plugin for it. It looks pretty interesting, and I’m tempted to try it. =:)
Still in search of a better mousetrap
So, I stumbled upon this wordpress client and got all excited about it until I realized that it was written specifically for Internet Explorer (which I wouldn’t use if you paid me in Cheese Whiz), specifically for Windows (which I wouldn’t use if you paid me in Cheese Whiz either). Why would anyone write an application for IE nowadays, please tell me?
In defense of the people being accused of accusing the Sponge
You can tell you really need a week off when…
- You’ve just had a day off yesterday and you don’t feel at all rested.
- You wake up an hour and a half late for work the day after your day off.
- You would rather be shoveling snow than sitting in your cubicle at work.
- You would rather be cleaning the bathroom than sitting in your cubicle at work.
- You would rather be doing almost anything else than sitting in your cubicle at work.
You can tell you really need a day off when…
- you are taking one tomorrow and don’t have a clue as to what you’re going to do with yourself, but you know that it won’t be “to rest”.
- your to-do list is longer for your day off than it is for a regular day at the office.
- you are feeling stressed out about the fact that you have 3 movies that need to be watched.
- you have struggled for the last 4 hours to go through the last 2 weeks’ worth of e-mails.
- you have 2 hours ahead of you to go through the last 2 weeks’ worth of opened-but-not-looked-through tabs in Opera.
About me (a clarification of the me-ness of me)
My name is Jason ‘vanRijn’ Kasper. The Jason part was given to me by my parents, though I have many times wished I had been named Richard the Third, after my Dad and Grandfather. The Kasper part was passed down to me from my Dad, though there are some pretty interesting facts about the family’s lineage. The ‘vanRijn’ part is something that happened on the way between then and now, but you can read more about that later.
And God created Darwin
I realize that this has been out on the ‘Net since 1999, apparently, but I just became aware of it. This is a really interesting article, written by Hans Bodlaender, apparently. I think it is a very well-balanced and wise point of view to have, and as a Christian, I agree with it. I’ll not quote the entire thing here, but just the last couple of paragraphs….