Come for the games, stay for the drama.
Stuff dealing with real work that I really get money to do!
I promised Atlas hearts and smiles when he finally began working. Got all the email issues sorted, wrote workarounds so the salespeople could still read their email and I am being very careful with him. He’s earned his name; he really does have the whole world on his shoulders. The security guard didn’t like the … Read more
(I wanted to head this rant with a picture of my trusty little mail server, Atlas, but he and I are not speaking at the moment, and the digital camera was out of power. So for no real reason, a gratuitous picture of Dina as a Square-Enix heroine.) About two weeks ago, our email provider, … Read more
So… that postcard I made a few days ago and wrote about here is ready to be mailed. But the printers say our address list has some bad postal codes; in particular, Canadian postal codes have had the last digit truncated. A little investigation, and I find out what’s happened. Our obviously US-centric database restricts … Read more
Today I came in intent on rewriting my internal web apps so they didn’t use frames. See, I’ve been migrating people from the custom Visual BASIC apps to the web-based equivalents I’ve been writing, and they’ve been such a success people are starting to print them out. And sometimes they get the report, and sometimes … Read more
An EQ friend, Caldabuse, and I were talking a few years back about what was right and wrong with MMOs. An individual player has no impact on the world, and has the same abilities as everyone else. In fact, conformity is seen as the perfect ideal in the MMO world. We’d both just started playing … Read more