Category: Diatribe

<tl;dr> Betteridge’s law of headlines applies, “No.” </tl;dr> In the ham radio communities, a rash of posts are going around about how FT8 / the Internet / Millenials / Nobel-prize physicists are destroying amateur radio: K0NR’s Is the Internet destroying amateur radio? […]

The Mintern

2016-06-21 wt8p

In retrospect, there were signs that The Intern might not work out: The child of a friend of the family of a Senior Executive … touted as an upperclassman from a well-known engineering school, but was just starting a search for an internship in […]

Windows Update

2013-09-13 wt8p

Another, big batch (27) of security patches landed on my Windows 7 desktop. Since I’m likely to be running long, data-intensive jobs, I have it not apply them right away. Sensing this large group would necessitate a reboot, I avoided […]

Fraud alert

Diatribe

2011-03-03 wt8p

Dear Valued Customer: Blah blah blah our employee’s laptop computer stolen blah blah blah your personal information may have been compromised. Sincerely, Company That Never Explained Why My Personal Information Was On Their Laptop In The First Place Um, Thanks. […]

There’s Water at the Bottom of the Ocean

2007-04-19 wt8p 11 comments

Brian posted an article about Splenda. Not Scout’s bike Splenda, but the chemical sweetener in the yellow packets. The website he referenced cites a couple of sources, including a Sugar Industry Sponsored Web Site. As I wrote on Brian’s bog, […]

Time to go home

Diatribe

2006-03-01 wt8p 10 comments

You know it’s going to be a bad day when the first email you have to send out is something like this: I hate to have to send out a note like this, but Dave tagged me with being this […]

Why I Hate Air Travel: O’Hell Airport

Diatribe

2006-01-03 wt8p 11 comments

Because I have to vent…

Web annoyances

2005-05-06 wt8p 5 comments

This should probably be a part one of five hundred, but I need to vent about these three. Having to create an account/personal profile to purchase a product. While printing out my salsa recipe for this week’s cooking festivities, I […]

Are people inherently pessimists?

Diatribe

2005-04-30 wt8p 5 comments

By now, you’ve read about Jennifer Wilkins, whose picture has been plastered on every news service in the U.S. because she was presumed abducted. Searches were conducted, posters had been posted, and a reward was offered. The truth is more […]