Technology

So I finally threw away the circa 1995 website that I had up at chris.dwan.org, and made a whole new one based on wordpress. I have no intention of moving the blogging stuff over there – except perhaps for some of my more structured and…

I currently run Quicken for Mac, 2007. A couple of weeks ago, I purchased Quicken for Mac, 2010. I downloaded it, and tried to add an account. When it got to the part about downloading transactions from my bank, I entered exactly the same information…

Conference call. 9 participants. Meeting starts. Then this gem: Tonya, you’re not on the call, right.  Tonya? Conclusion – no – she was not on the call. I want my four minutes back.

Some of my customers are much, much cooler than others. Working for one of the cooler ones this week – in the data center. Data centers, for those of you who have not had the pleasure, tend to be cold and windy places with ambient…

If anyone was wondering why I’ve been missing from LJ (hello? LJ?) it’s because I’m down in VA again – absolutely flat out for one one my favorite customers. Thats “flat out,” like the awesome hillbilly racing game that technolope showed me. We’re standing up…

Okay smart / beautiful people: Got another question. I’ve had very own internet domain for quite a while now. For several years I’ve been with these jackasses. However, I glanced up recently and noticed that they are a truly odd combination of incompetent and expensive.…

I think that my company’s structure needs some structure in order to stay cool without swamping us (me) in support calls. It occurred to me that many development teams use some sort of bug / feature / request tracking system. Broadly, instead of selling 10…

I think that I get twitter – and there’s not much to get. Back in the day, I was a luddite who thought that “the web” was just a massive ego trip. Seriously – I put up a web page on one of the umich…

I seem to be achieving one of my goals for this house buying process – do as much as possible electronically – at least more than the last time I went through this dance. I hate FAX machines. I hate the “me use markum stick…

I spent my day waiting for a system crash. We’ve got this serious, hardcore system lockup that happens sometimes with the customer of the moment. Naturally, it only happens when the system is flat-out running their most important computation. Naturally, it can reasonably said that…