whatever-it’s-called Messenger today

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Dave

One of the things about working from home, you rely on chat for nearly all your communication, so when you can’t chat, it’s… Annoying. I guess I could phone, but I hate phoning, so I don’t think I’ll do that.

Due to what looks like a bug/change on the MSN/Live/whatever messenger servers, I’m unable to get online at the moment. It’s been ongoing for a couple days with no particular end in sight, although I have faith that the pidgin authors will find a workaround.

If you do need to reach me, email me or use the Contact Me link at the top of my blog, ‘eh?

UPDATE: Microsoft has reversed the change on their servers, pidgin users can now connect once again.

Wiiiiiiiiiii

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Dave

I do realize I’ve been neglecting whatever passes for my dearest dedicated reader as of late, and for that, I do apologize. I’ve been a little swamped with a few other things and haven’t really been paying attention.

Among said things is some entertainment, for Christmas we got a Wii, and more recently I signed up for CanFlix, which is a clone of NetFlix that actually delivers to Canada. CanFlix is actually based in Calgary oddly enough, wish I’d known about them while I was still in Calgary, their turn-around time would probably rock.

Anyway, the Wii has been sucking up more of my time then I’d expected, in fact nearly 12 hours this weekend, mostly on Super Mario 3 (yes, that’s an original Nintendo game), and Need for Speed: Carbon.

I’m trying to decide if I have anything interesting enough to say about the games I’m playing that hasn’t been said over and over elsewhere on the net, but if nothing else it might be a good excuse to start blogging again, ‘eh?

Anyway, a belated Happy New Year to all.

iPhone? Copy and paste now? Please?

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Dave

So it’s what, a year and a half since the initial iPhone release? And still no copy-and-paste? Seriously?

Don’t get me wrong, there is a lot to love about the iPhone, especially with some of the applications that are making appearances now, but Apple really needs to get some of the basics implemented.

Whenever I complain I always have someone popup to say that it isn’t needed because information just flows between apps. To some extent this is true, it’s one click to call a phone number from an email (assuming it’s formatted correctly, no way to add that missing zero or area code though), Google Maps adds contacts to the address book automatically, etc.

What I can’t figure out is how exactly to flow three 16 digit numbers from an email to a courier’s tracking page to find out when my Christmas gift will be here.

Apple fanbois, enlighten me!

The Dave

I'd rather be phishing

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Wiiiiiiiiiii

iPhone? Copy and paste now? Please?