Archive for the “Rant” category

You’ve Got (Michael) Bay-ed!

by Marshall on February 28, 2008

“Before time began, there was The Cube”… Wow, what can I say! I mean, I am almost speechless, but I will try to continue. Tonight was a very special night in the Mickelson household. Netflix, my DVD purveyor of choice, (…)

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How NOT to Write Read-Only Properties

by Marshall on January 12, 2007

The other day I spent a good 45 minutes fixing a defect at work. A major portion of the time was spent trying to figure out why an object I was modifying wasn’t keeping a value for one of it’s (…)

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Broken .lnk files in Windows XP

by Marshall on November 30, 2006

Because one year running Windows without a reformat is probably way too long, I decided to clean up my Windows box at work a week ago. I ran a few registry cleaners, I recreated my user profile, uninstalled programs that (…)

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Get Rid Of All That Junk (Snail) Mail

by Marshall on July 12, 2006

Ever get fed up with the amount of junk mail that you are receiving? I was. At one point I was receiving at least 2 letter a week from Chase Visa requesting that I sign up for their credit card. (…)

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Powerbook Powerfucked

by Marshall on May 1, 2006

Well…. I am temporarilly without my Powerbook. You see, I was opening up Automator to try to create a New File action, similar to any other respectable operating system, so that I could ctrl-click on a Finder window and create (…)

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More Microsoft Annoyances

by Marshall on June 30, 2005

You have to love the Microsoft Office developers who decided that when you copy and paste information into an Office 2003 document, you don’t just copy the text that you wanted into your document, you paste the formatting too. Typeface, (…)

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Who Remembers Freedom?

by Marshall on June 9, 2005

I have never been a supporter of the Partiot Act, and I was very proud that one of my senators, Russ Feingold, was the only one with the balls to stand up for the basic freedoms granted to us in (…)

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