Time well spent bears a lifetime of memories and great relationships, but ill spent bears only regret and loneliness. - Stephen Gideon, 04/07/2008
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Technology = Fail!

I might as well rant some more about technology issues.

  • Thingamablog freaked out on me, I spent 10 minutes trying to publish a blog entry. Had to reboot my PC to get it to work today.
  • Bulleting in Thingamablog is also acting wonky tonight!
  • A friend's home PC blew up, and I had to walk them through on the phone how to fix their bios settings for it to work.
  • Cell phone issues (already covered) - I have to point out though, that from my past knowledge of the cell industry Text Messaging is unreliable. A call is better really. Why? They use excess bandwidth and capacity to deliver text messages (cell providers). If the network is full, or there is a bottleneck the voice calls typically get routed and text messaging gets the short end of the stick.
  • Pidgin, it's an Open Source IM client. Well, looks like Yahoo changed something, because it doesn't work with Yahoo IM anymore. I updated it, but no luck. So I downloaded YIM, and it was a good thing I did the expert install because it planned to SPAM my machine something fierce. Replace Google as my search choice, add toolbars to my browsers, that kind of stuff. I hope the Pidgin development team releases a patch soon.
  • The Vulcan has some sort of SLOW leak at the rear drive shaft. So I gotta take it in and have it serviced I think, and have that fixed.
  • The truck is due for a oil, V-belt, and transmission fluid change.
  • Oh a bright note, I noticed my Chickens and Hens are actually spreading through their flowerbed. But then again, they don't run on electricity or gasoline do they?
Posted by Stephen Gideon at 8:05 PM
Edited on: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 9:19 PM
Categories: Highway Robbery, Life, Motorcycles, Technology, Web Design

Out of sorts, not myself, frustrated with technology

I had planned to go to bed early, but I can't. My stomach is upset, has been since last evening. Today I got up this morning on the wrong side of the bed, or the world. I'm not sure what, or why, but today wasn't my day. I was sick to my stomach when I woke up. I went to work, and had tons to do, but I felt out of sorts. My cell phone has been acting funky today, text messages would come in scrambled. They would go out scrambled. This evening it seems every text message I sent after 5:30 or so got delayed by almost 2 hours from what I can tell on the delivery status. So a bunch of my friends got inundated with text messages. Some of them wrote back wondering what was wrong, that I sent so many all at once. I'm ready for the day to end, I hope this week gets better. The weekend was so wonderful, a perfect wrap up to my vacation but the week seems to be so off I wish I could take another vacation.

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Posted by Stephen Gideon at 7:49 PM
Edited on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 8:19 PM
Categories: Life, Religion

Monday, July 07, 2008

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Posted by Stephen Gideon at 7:23 AM
Edited on: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 8:20 PM
Categories: Life, Motorcycles