On programming, writing, gaming and life...
Things that just rub me the wrong way
Tip: In most cases, the early termination fee is applied for each phone in your account, not just for the account itself. I went into Cingular to cancel my account and move to Verizon (just because I am disgusted with Cingular's service). I was told by the representative that it was going to be $175. Well, now my bill says $525 and a call to the customer service department confirmed that it was in fact $175 per phone and not $175 for the entire account.
Bastards.
Just a tiny little rant here. If you've been following my blog (all 1 of you probably) you probably gathered that I'm one of those hard core gamer types (one of my sons friends even said it to me which is something coming from the 12-13 year old crowd). Anyway, I'm following this years E3 (as I do every year). Simply put, the next gen consoles will just rock. I can't wait to play an XBox 360 game in 1080i and PS3 games at 1080p. Anyway, excitement aside, this is what's really getting to me. When ......
First it was goodbye Carly and now it's goodbye hockey. What is this world coming to? I for one am disappointed. I just moved to the Seattle area which makes a drive up to Vancouver for an NHL game even more plausible. Guess I have to wait a little longer.
I thought I'd head over to Ebay and take a look at the PSP's up for auction. One thing only a few people know about me is that I read everything. If there are words around me, I'm reading all of them. It's a habit. So I'm reading all the information about the PSP from a seller. At the bottom, I read this: “Please note you are bidding on where you can buy the PSP for twenty pound” Now that is really misleading. The title doesn't say you are bidding on “information only”. So, ......
Why oh why does it not work? I've said that so many times, but for the life of me cannot figure this one out. I thought I'd just go and play a little with Region objects for controls. I basically use 3 images with a defined transparency color and generate Region objects from them. I thought it would be a simple matter of being able to set the Region on my custom control depending on the state of the mouse (MouseEnter, MouseLeave, etc...). So, if the mouse enters the control, I do a good old this.Region ......
<ObiWan target='Windows' function='FolderDeletion'> <jedimindtrick>Move along! Move along!</jedimindtrick>... Ok, I'm sure everyone has this rant. I've had it for a long time and here's hoping that one day it'll get changed (Longhorn maybe). I go to my %TEMP% directory, hit CTRL-A to select all and do a SHIFT-DELETE to permantently delete all the files. But lo' and behold it stop after 10 files saying one of them is in use and then stops. Why can't they make it so it ......
If you work in a cube, see if you can relate to this... Well, I'm finally hear to rant about something, or rather someone, affectionately known as “The Horker”. It all started when our entire team packed up and moved to a new building. The old building, building 4, used to be full of assembly lines used to make inkjet printers. The lines were all removed (except for 1 or 2 prototype lines) and a sea of cubicles were created to house all the engineers (it's a huge building). Every night ......
I am currently involved in another series of weekly videos that I write, direct, act in, and produce for our church. This is the 3rd series I have done (only 3 videos in this series) and is by far the hardest since I am doing a lot of chromakey work in it (think evil and good conscience on the shoulders). I finished the 2nd video at 5:00 am on Saturday...well...technically I guess that would be Sunday, but I started working on it at 3:00 pm on Saturday so it felt...oh, you know what I mean. Now to ......
Justin King blogged about Amazon's new search engine. I looked at it, installed their very Google like toolbar and tried it out. The SiteInfo popups on the search results page were cool. Then I clicked on the toolbar button that said “mark@schmidt6.com's History” and lo and behold, I was taken to http://a9.com/-/search/edit... and their I saw all the websites I had just visited after installing the toolbar. No way. Maybe the toolbar is intercepting the http response and filling in ......