This story sounds really familiar. Almost too familiar really. It is satire, but what makes great satire is the grounding in reality, right? Hey, does that mean I learned some from Mrs. Ray? Dammit! – – – – – DO you know Smarterchild? A pretty simple A.I. for AOL Instant Messengers…
Spent yesterday home sick. Guess I did too much Saturday… enough that I completely crashed Sunday and was still weak Monday. Was able to come in to work this morning. – – – – – Getting my radiator fixed… hopefully means that my car will be condition to go on some road trips. – –…
Lovely… MSN Messenger is still down. Seems that Microsoft had problems with hardware so people were up and down. It is my turn to be down. Thankfully I have other IMs on which I can rely… AIM and ICQ being the most reliable IMs. Backing up all my data off my work computer in order…
Pitas was down earlier. That was disconcerting, I guess. Installing the web server has been frustrating (incomplete environment settings) but finally coming along.
Did go to Dr. Bailey’s Retirement Dinner Saturday night (see 2 posts down). Was not as bad as I expected. Got to hide in a back room making name tags for people whose name tag was missing or incorrect. About 15 minutes after people had sat down to eat, Joe and I snuck out to grab…
Interesting Flash animation:Â Who is piiq.com? – – – – – – – – I hate Flash… just thought you would like to know.
An old friend sent me an instant message. Amazes me how many become more and more internet savvy. Perhaps soon I will have have to abandon the internet at work as they take more and more of my time? Naw…
This is pretty cool… they help others keep up with your email address changes. Veri Post
Netiquette or really any form of etiquette is not common sense. People in general do not know how to behave themselves in foreign cultures. As much as we might hate to admit it, cybercultures do abound and each have rules of behavior. They may not be posted, but members of the society know them. Many…