Year: 2007
OPERATIONS DEPT.
Have You Been Trying to Reach Me?
I upgraded to Microsoft Outlook 2003 a few weeks ago, and I just sort of assumed that if anything went wrong there’d be error messages or something. It turns out that Outlook and the Windypundit mail server aren’t talking to each other. I didn’t notice because I have about half a dozen email accounts coming… Read more
LEGAL DEPT.
Who Should See Breathalyzer Source Code?
DUI lawyer Lawrence Taylor has been writing for a while about the resistance by breathalyzer manufacturers to various legal attempts by defense lawyers to get a peek at the source code for software that controls the machines. As a civil libertarian and software developer, I have mixed feelings about this. I can certainly understand why… Read more
PHOTOBLOGGING DEPT.
More From the Model Shoot
As my way of apologizing to poor Ken Lammers, who visited here to see the pretty girls and found my plunger story instead, here are a couple more shots from last month’s model shoot. (I am way behind in processing these photos.) Kathy Nicole Read more
LEGAL DEPT.
Evil Lawmaking: Piling On
I remember back when I was a kid and I did something wrong, sometimes my parents would handle it separately, and I’d get yelled at or punished by both of them for the same misdeed. It seemed so unfair. Lawmakers do much the same thing. Only instead of doing it at the same time, they… Read more
PHOTOGRAPHY DEPT.
Eight Crappy Photos Lost to History
By the way, for anyone tempted to be impressed by some of my photography, when I was getting the photo of the toilet and plunger for the previous item, I had to take nine shots to get a composition I liked with the correct exposure to show details in both the white and the black… Read more
