Month: March 2004

I Don’t Feel Any Older

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Well today is my birthday, and I don’t feel any older. I was a bit depressed going into today since this is my 30th, but now I don’t feel that bad. I am going to fill myself up with sugar at starbucks in a little while and let the day go by. Hopefully nothing major breaks and today is not too stressful. What are the odds on that actually happening?

No snow yet. I am told it really will snow at some time today. I await the white stuff. I like snow as long as it does not disrupt my commute to or from work.

Powerbook Update

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I have to say my original assessment is correct. it does run cooler than the older models. It is not uncomfortable to use after a while like the old one was. I only have 256megs of ram and so far it has been fine. I haven’t needed to bump it up to 512 or a Gig of memory. It could use a bigger hard drive, but that would have been a special order and I didn’t want to buy the laptop direct from apple or wait 3 weeks for it. Battery life is ok, but I am comparing it with my Thinkpad with a Pentium M that sips the power and lasts hours.

I am on the hunt for a bluetooth mouse for the powerbook. I cannot find a good one. I don’t like the apple 1 button mouse so that is out. the only other one that works for the mac, a belkin one I believe had a bad review. I would really like one that I can use between a PC and a Mac. Oh to dream

If I haven’t mentioned it before (I have) my Powerbook using Kung-Log is my Blogging system of choice. I do allot on the train (doing that right now). The keyboard is just great on this thing.

Why I Don’t Like Politics Most Of The Time

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I am never one to be very political. It is a very polarizing topic. But I had to say something about the latest headlines between Kerry & Bush. Kerry claims that foreign leaders told him privately that they hope he wins over bush in November. Bush says if Kerry doesn’t say who, he made the whole thing up. OK, come on people. The odds that one or more leader of the many governments that disagree with Bush probably did say something to Kerry, but if it was in confidence do you really think Kerry will say anything? Of course not. Story over. Kerry probably should have kept his mouth shut. Can both sides get back to the issues?

A White Birthday???

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Tomorrow is my birthday. It is supposed to snow 5-8 inches in NYC tomorrow. It was 50 something today. Is the big guy sending me a sign? I don’t know, but it sure is weird that it was hot today and will probably snow tomorrow.

I am so tired from today. I am going home and lying down. Maybe if I am awake I will do my laundry. That remains to be seen. Of course if I need closes to last the week I will do it. I am away Thursday through Saturday so I wont have time later in the week to do it. I am out tomorrow night at Rich’s so I can’t do it then. That leaves tonight and Wednesday.

Migraine Alert

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My migraine from yesterday did not fully go away. I had to take a furiset today. it made me feel better but taking the medication is never good. I am getting renewed pressure from my family to see the head ache specialist again. I need to make an appointment.

Birthday Dinner, Well Almost

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I was supposed to go to Peter Luger’s for dinner with my family tonight to celebrate my birthday. That got canceled. I woke up this morning with a headache and it developed into a migraine. I took Zomig, but it didn’t work. I ended up sleeping most of the afternoon. Once I got up I was feeling ok and was thinking about still doing dinner. Little did I know that my dad called about an hour and a half before the reservations and figured if I didn’t answer the phone I was still sleeping the migraine off. he said if I was still asleep I was still not feeling well and canceled the reservations. He was of course correct, but I wanted to get some steaks. We are rescheduling for 2 weeks. My brother in law and my dad both have to work next sunday, and this week is bad for everyone so we cannot go during the week.

Because of the migraine I did very little today. I had a food delivery from Fresh Direct, and looked at a server problem after my afternoon nap.

Of course it is now 10:30PM and I am not tired since I slept most of the day due to the migraine. I am hoping to goto sleep soon so I can try and get a normal nights sleep.

Air Hockey

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I went to Jillian’s last night with Alison. That place is a fun diversion, but only after 10PM. Before 10, it is filled with kids. After 10, it is 21 and over. I had a good time even though I got beaten at air hockey 3 times:( I would be lying if I said it was a close three games. I got beat bad 2 out of 3 of them. I am going to stick with Skee ball and foose ball. Not sure if that is how you spell it, but I always liked foose ball. Of course I blame the lack of alcohol on my air hockey loss.

We had dinner at TGI Fridays. As homer simpson would say: Mmmmm jack Daniel’s grill.

Comments On The Blog

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I have been comment spammed for the last time. I have turned off comments on this post and all future posts. If I can figure out how to go back and automatically turn off comments for my old posts I will. I got my last penis enlargement comment, or stupid comments from some dumbass that has nothing to do with the post they are commenting on.

I have had some cool responses, and I thank everyone for those. The problem is that the good posts don’t make it worth dealing with all the crap.

Extension Mobility

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With Cisco Call Manager we can do something called extension mobility. it allows you to goto any phone in the office and log in with your phone extension. Our call center software Zeacom Smartconnect has always had problems with extension mobility. Once we use it the extension would not work with the software until the system was rebooted. We put a patch on the system last Tuesday that was supposed to fix the problem. Turns out that it didn’t. Some extensions work, and others do not. it is driving Kai and I crazy.

It turns out that Cisco uses the MAC address of the device you are logging into to track the profiles for extension mobility. That doesn’t work with how Zeacom does things. They like netbios. We have had issues with Smartconnect and netbios before when we wanted to put devices on networks other than the network where the smartconnect server resides. Zeacom is working on yet another patch to get the two system to gel and work together. I am still eagerly awaiting extension mobility. I have been waiting since September 2003. Granted EM will work with the cisco phones, but I just cannot use the call center software once I use it. it becomes a real pain in the ass.

People

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On a good day I am not a huge people person. If you know me you know what I am talking about. I don’t like large crowds. The problem is that I take mass transportation to go almost everywhere. I am currently on Amtrak coming back from my 2 days in Kingston. Well travel can be fun, and it can suck. It usually sucks more than it is fun. Why you may be asking I think that. Well the answer is people.

Not everyone sucks, I am not that much of a cynic. But lets take the people sitting by me on the train today. We got the loud guy with his friend sitting behind me. He is one of those guys who has to talk on a cell phone with his outside voice. he is retarded into thinking that if you have a bad cell signal yelling will make people understand you. When off the phone him and his friend just wont shut up and are really load.

Up one row from me I have teenage / college girl who won’t get off the cell phone. Thankfully it looks like she has bad cell service since she is spending half the time trying to make a call.

Then there is Jr HS girl in front of me that keeps getting up out of the seat and going someplace and then returning. Thankfully the seat has not yet hit my powerbook when she is getting up all the time.

Not all is bad. Others who are quiet and trying to peacefully spend the time are the 2 college guys on the other side of the isle from me, and the guy sitting next to me. We are all suffering in silence together.

Why is it people have no understanding that anything they do affects the people around them?

Not all is bad when traveling. On the way up yesterday I didn’t have much of a problem. The big deal is when goes bad, it goes bad in a big way!

I spoke too soon. Cell phone talking college girl just moved into the seat across from me since the two other guys got off at the last stop. Lets hope her service sucks the rest of the way back to NYC.

I am a hypocrite right now since I had a problem at work and Keith just called me. I need to call him back. But at least I had a legitimate reason to use the phone.

It is weird that I talk about this topic every time I am on the train home from kingston.