Sluggish month.

Funny but for three days of jury duty it's messed my cycle up for a month now. Guess shifting my whole schedule by a 180 will do that as everything was done 12hrs opposite of normal for that span. Just getting to that point was fun but afterwards it's seemed like each cycle conflicts with each other and can't get back into a "normal" routine. Doesn't help the clocks swapped over so it's nice and dark a hour earlier and oh yeah weather starts to take a dump.
Oh well december is right around the corner with a new year 38 days give or take a few out now. So think I'll just veg out the rest of november and get going again on the 1st of the month.

On the other hand had a few bright spots during the month.

Amusing to say the least, Lucky me.

Little aside which I didn't think I'd post about it. But since I find it amusing I figured eh why not?
I usually do a scan/search depending on a viewpoint everyday for something. Yesterday was the first time in probably oh 5-6 months that I didn't. Well let me backtrack to say I have two searches, so if anything pops on the time based first I'll do the secondary one for a deeper result. I don't go through every single one since 95% of the time it's just bot induced spam words for craplinks to virii/malware sites so I can spot the legit from the bogus ones.
Anyways wanna take a bet as to what I'm going to say next? If you answered what I search for popped up yesterday after I did the first one with no returns well your right.
Guess it's like the old saying a watched pot never boils.

Oh well lucky me.

Why is it...... Q&A time

Q&A time

1. Why is it when I make a smoothie with the same mixture of ingredients as I'd order from a shop it never tastes the same?


2. Why is it I can remember the day of the week when I did something yet come the next year I miss it since I mixed up the dates for them?


3. Why is it I get tagged for jury duty on a month when I had things taken care of to set aside some me-time for once?


4. Why is it so hard to find a decent flip case for a Apple touch/phone to keep the screen covered?


5. Why is it Apple didn't design a flip cover onto it in the first place?


6. Why is it I drive better with a migraine than people "multitasking" in their car?


7. Why is it the editor here complains about code markup when it's supposed to be supported?


8. Why is it my hiking shoes survive going over rocks, sand, and other assorted ground clutter, yet they rip apart when I run for just a quarter mile after not wearing them for 2 months?


9. Why is it I'll design (model, paint, adjust etc)something, let it sit then come back to it and not have a clue how I did it in the first place?

Answers:

1. Same reason I'll load up on 2 cameras and go out yet won't take any pictures, just no reason.


2. Time's fluid


3. Because the universe likes to go "mmmmmmm no not yet"


4. It's the redheaded stepchild product that they threw together from stripped down components?


5. Because they'd rather design the nano to look like a roll of flattened toilet paper roll instead.


6. Too many flight sims in my youth? Moving in x/y is easy instead of x/y/z and knowing about apex driving?


7. Bad coding since this is just a evolved forum profile script?


8. Well sure probably prior stress put on them. But really doing something that simple?


9. Out with the old in with the new? Why try to recreate something just let that prior one be unique?

Ah lovely jury duty summons

Lovely just what I've been waiting for shows up in the mail today. My
favorite activity of sitting around waiting while totally screwing up
my schedule for next month.
No it couldn't be for my city where you'd just call to check the
night before if your needed the next day. Nope not that
but a full on county summons where you have to be there and twiddle
your thumbs for a week if you don't get impaneled.
Love it, now I'll need to readjust my schedule since I'm not a get up
and go person. I design best at night so getting there at 8am should
really screw me over since I'll usually sleep around 5-6am.
This should be interesting to say the least.

Sent from my iTouch

Chrome + Gears makes a Android

Your future online is offline.  Interesting take in the article, I just did some wordplay for the title. Be interesting to see if it takes hold but I'm still waiting for something in a 4x6 or 5x7 touch interface tablet format instead of a crappy phone device with or without crappy chiclet sized keys.  When that is available then we'll talk.

Well was too good to be true

Well spoke too soon yesterday about the iTouch upgrade being a-ok
firmware wise. Still crashes if you mail and use safari right away.

Oh well maybe next patch.

Sent from my iTouch

Good about time people wise up to the problems of DRM on software

Spore Backlash

Culture Buzz Spore fans are not happy with the game’s anti-piracy DRM, so they’ve taken their protest to Amazon.

About time people wake up to the so called anti-piracy cartels who try to tell people how and what should be installed on their own systems. Things like antivirus, anti-malware, or process explorers utilities also know as security programs are deemed bad programs by the hacks. Usually to install the crippling DRM schemes you need to shut them off, yes that's always best to do. Shut down your AV's, your firewalls so you get infected or turned into a botnode, don't worry about what is running on your system we know whats best for you. Now enjoy your treat and jump through the hoops to enjoy your legitimately purchased software. Remember use this serial number, verify it every 10 days and oh on top of it keep the cd/dvd in your drive to run it since we can't be certain the first 2 steps work.

I was going to buy the game but with the "copy protection" on it and all future EA titles I'm skipping it any any others. But it's really not about copy protection as legitimate users are the ones who get the shaft, it's all about your ability to resell the program once you bore of it. What happens if say 5-6 years down the line you decide to reinstall the software and had used up your limit of installs? Wait EA is out of business, somehow, then what do you do? Unlike how I can go back and install Sims without a problem still or any of the other old software I own without incident.

I've been using computers for 20 years and there is no way I'd disable any security software even while running a hardware firewall with always on connections nowadays. Seriously just because some "security" company foists a protection scheme onto software publishers legitimate users are just expected to rollover because a mechanism is faulty by design? A Steam or MMO type of login is a better alternative than to have various hidden files and callhome routines unknowningly installed onto your system.