http://www.granneman.com/blog Ramblings & ephemera Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:32:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Scott: Pronounce this word: A - G - I - N - C - O - U - R - T. Robin: Why? Scott: I just want to hear you pronounce it. Robin: Welllll ... I would pronounce it the way it's spelled: Again-kort. Scott: (starts laughing & snickering) Haha! Robin: I *knew* that would ... http://www.granneman.com/blog/2008/06/08/robin-ism-6/ I recently posted this to my local Linux Users Group mailing list: Thought y'all would find this interesting - from http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/05/26/fundraising_excel/index.html: "A milestone of sorts was reached earlier this year, when Obama, the Illinois senator whose revolutionary online fundraising has overwhelmed Clinton, filed an electronic fundraising report so large it could not ... http://www.granneman.com/blog/2008/05/30/obama-clinton-microsoft-excel-and-openofficeorg/ From Joshua Porter's "Do Canonical Web Designs Exist?" (Bokardo: 14 November 2007): ... web designers necessarily approach design from a different perspective than graphic designers. Graphic designers can judge by looking. Web designers cannot. Web designers must judge by doing (or observing others doing). The problem is that too many people judge ... http://www.granneman.com/blog/2008/05/17/web-design-contrasted-with-graphic-design/ From Fake Steve Jobs' "Why Dell will not bounce back" (11 May 2008): On the manufacturing side, Dell figured out faster than the others in its space how to squeeze component suppliers and play them off each other. They brought in loads of former Wal-Mart people to refine this practice. One ... http://www.granneman.com/blog/2008/05/11/what-dell-learned-from-wal-mart/ From Brendan I. Koerner's "Is a Dishwasher a Green Machine?" (Slate: 22 April 2008): To really green up your automatic dishwashing, you should always use the air-drying function, avoid the profligate "rinse hold" setting, wash only full loads, and install the machine far away from your refrigerator. ... Just promise that you'll scrape ... http://www.granneman.com/blog/2008/04/22/energy-efficient-washing-machines/ From "Report: China's botnet problems grows" (SecurityFocus: 21 April 2008): Computers infected by Trojan horse programs and bot software are the greatest threat to China's portion of the Internet, with compromises growing more than 20-fold in the past year, the nation's Computer Emergency Response Team (CN-CERT) stated in its 2007 annual ... http://www.granneman.com/blog/2008/04/21/12-of-all-bots-are-in-china/ Denise is talking to our class about how people are slowly giving up their civil liberties, a bit at a time: "It's like the story about how you gradually turn the heat up on a pot of water and slowly boil the lobster!" (Hint: she meant frog.) http://www.granneman.com/blog/2008/04/20/denise-ism-601/ "You've been hoist by your own retard." http://www.granneman.com/blog/2008/04/20/scott-words-17/ From Larry Page's "How to Motivate Your Staff" (Business 2.0: December 2003: 90): We wrote a program that asks every engineer what they did every week. It sends them e-mail on Monday, and concatenates the e-mails together in a document that everyone can read. And it then sends that out to ... http://www.granneman.com/blog/2008/04/20/how-google-motivates-employees/ Denise & I are in the car, talking about her friend Scott E., when her cell phone rings. It's Scott E.! Denise: "Scott! We were just talking about you! Your ears must have been ringing!" http://www.granneman.com/blog/2008/04/20/denise-ism-37/