Posts tagged “rants”

Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3

Sometimes I think they are just trying to confuse people. Could they have possibly made the Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3 Download instructions any more confusing? Actually it’s only step 4 that bugs me.

Voice Mail

I have a new voice mail number. I only mention this because my last one was el stinko. The only message I ever received on it, from girlhero.org, was mainly about how crappy the voice mail service was. So I switched from mytalk.com (crappy) to ureach.com (non-crappy). One bonus is that now I don’t have

Barcodes

I hope people who read my resume don’t think of this when they see that I’ve done a tremendous amount of work implementing bar codes, scanners, and keyless data entry systems. I am seriously getting sick of Microsoft jerking me around about my browser. I guess I’m the only farking fool in the world who

Screen Resolution

I am constantly being yelled at by my workmates because I live at 1024×768 and they are both 800×600 people. I can’t stand going as low as 800×600 … How can you get anything done? Nothing even fits on the screen at that resolution!

ACLU

I got a letter today from the ACLU. It began, “Dear Friend of Freedom:” It went on to tell me that I had earned the right to be a card-carrying member of the ACLU. It even came with a card! I’m so glad I bought that shredder a few weeks ago. Now, don’t get me

Disclaimer

A disclaimer from the UPS web site: NOTICE: UPS authorizes you to use UPS tracking systems solely to track shipments tendered by or for you to UPS for delivery and for no other purpose. Any other use of UPS tracking systems and information is strictly prohibited. Here’s my question: What other purpose could you possibly

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.