http://github.com/rafaelp/css_browser_selector/tree/master

Greatest thing since sliced cheese.

https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/offerDetail.aspx?offerPriceId=127516

So. I had charter here in the sunny Lake Norman area and ended up cancelling since from 5pm-10pm I pretty much didnt have internet. The nodes that handled my internet traffic were so oversaturated that I was lucky to get 385kb (yes, little b) of downstream during that 4 hour period. And this wasnt now and then, this was every single day.

So, after many service calls (this was before a certain tech told me the issue was the node congestion) they finally decided to start charging me for service calls to fix the issue, which, of course, wasn't actually getting fixed.

I ended up cancelling my service and going with the only alternative in my area. 1.5meg DSL. So I went from fast most of the time but unusable for 5 hours in the afternoon to slow as heck all the time. I had to cancel my Netflix account because with the 1.5 meg service, I could no longer stream movied at anything higher than Commodore 64 graphics levels.

Fast forward a year or so. Somebody tells me that from what they can tell the node congestion has gotten better (I dont know if they upgraded or if enough people cancelled it isnt as much of an issue anymore) so I decide to give it a whirl. I called Charter and ordered their 20 meg down/2 meg up service which runs $80 a month in this area. I dont really care if I get that kind of downstream or now, but I would love to have 2 meg up.

The appointment is set up and confirmed for 9-12 or something on the only day I can be away from work. I sit here and wait. And wait. And wait. And at 2pm i call Charter. I pressed 2 to choose 'If you are calling about a scheduled appointment' and the nice lady tells me she doesn't see an appointment for me and sends me to new sales. New sales informs me there is no appointment and they won't be able to send anyone out to my house. On they day they chose. That I made sure to be available for.

I asked them to go ahead and cancel my account. I cancelled my account before I even had my service installed. That has to be some kind of record, but from what I have seen, Charter deserves it.

Charter, AT&T wanted me to send you a big thanks! from them. On the bright side, I hear uverse should be available here soon.

Is it safe to eat Peanut Butter yet?

If you arent using the Windows 7 beta, DO IT! I am very happy with it and running it on all of my laptop/desktop machines.

 The only down to it is Media Center seems pretty broken to me. I have 300+ DVDs ripped (yes, all legit!) to my Windows Home Server and playing them through My Movies(great plugin!) works great in Vista Media Center, but locks up 7 Media Center often. Hopefully they will get it sorted soon, as I love the rest of the OS.

You can check out My Movies here. I need to do a post soon about my Media Center journey, as it has been a job and a half! Actually, probably needs to be a couple posts. Also, I guess I should do one on my current project, the CarPuter!

<img src="http://blogbybob.com/images/fallingdown.jpg" alt="An ordinary man's war with everyday life" />

There were a plethora of red heads out this weekend. Don't tell my girlfriend, but I am going to marry a red head one day.

I was going to get ROADKILL on my plate on my motorcycle, but bike plates are only 7 letters. These things just never seem to work out...

http://blogbybob.com/music/05 Time After Time [The S.F.E. Version].wma

They're coming to take me away, HA HA
They're coming to take me away, HO HO HEE HEE HA HA
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see
Those nice, young men
In their clean, white coats
And they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!

I do Scrum solo and pair program with myself. I even usually understand what I am writing.

So, I came in at 5:30 this morning (woot! early morning releases) and accidently wore my dark riding glasses. So, of course, this was stuck in my head the whole morning.

Process got you down? Have to jump through too many hoops to get your work done? Rules for the sake of rules? http://cristgaming.com/pirate.swf Turn up your volume, open that and get it done!

SMACK! Well, not really but funny none the less...

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The developer who was responsible for investigating the bug decided to use this "signature value" technique. It is often the case that, for throwaway temporary signatures like this, you will use your own initials as the signature value. This is partly egotism but mostly just lack of creativity. But this particular developer had a better idea. Since he had a pretty good idea which component was corrupting the memory, he used not his own initials, but the initials of the developer responsible for the component he thought was the corruptor! That way, when that developer's component corrupted the signature, it'd just be corrupting his own initials.

Of course, when the developer of the suspect component saw this check-in, he felt kind of insulted. After all, his friend just accused him of corrupting memory.
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No, not 15 minutes of fame, I have never had that experience.

I have, however, been having a weird dream lately. I don't sleep much. My normal routine is bed between 2 and 4am, getting up at 7:30 for work. And this goes on and on. On the weekends, I usually try to go to bed just early enough that I can fall asleep without hearing all the people around me getting up and being noisy, so 4 to 5 am, but I do sleep in on the weekends until 11 or 12.

Well, I think lately I have been getting just a hair less sleep than I need. I have been waking up at 7:15, and in a half awake/half asleep state, I convince myself I can travel in time. But only for 15 minutes. So, in this theory of mine, I can travel back in time 15 minutes, go back to sleep for 15 minutes, half way wake up, and do it all again. As many times as I would like.

Of course, 15 minutes goes by and my alarm clock wakes me up, so I guess so far it hasn't actually worked...