Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

Month: December 2018

  • Relative Dating

    “Today” and “Yesterday” are intuitive ways to indicate when something happened. Except when one cannot determine when today is. See, I appear to have a weird DNS issue where some software is not able to communicate with servers. Microsoft Teams appears to be one of those products affected. So, in a thread that says “Today”,…

  • The Special Character That Wasn’t

    In trying to uninstall a piece of software, the computer reported that process failed because of a special character in the directory where it was installed. What? That doesn’t make any sense. First, it was a generic folder name. Second, how did the same installer software create this directory it now cannot remove? Eventually, the…