Pain & suffering in suburbia
08.11.2008 @ 9:12am
The neighbours are fighting again. Mostly it’s the wife, yelling her head off at her husband. She seems to be the one who started yelling first. I can’t understand what she’s saying, it’s just coming across as a fairly nasal, hoarse kind of braying. The occasional expletitive is the only word I’ve been able to comprehend. When her husband responds, also by yelling, his voice is fairly faint in comparison. Then she starts up again. And all the dogs in the neighborhood go off.
Network security iz srs bsns
04.11.2008 @ 9:14am
So I’m home, on this wonderful ACT Public Holiday known as ‘Families & Community Day’ (which I think is a terribly ironic name, given that it’s basically just a way to give us Melbourne Cup day off), working on web stuff – as any good geekette does on her day off. And then I notice a computer in the ‘Shared’ list of my finder. A Mac with a strange name, like MACMAC12345. I think, hmmm, that’s odd. Must be the laptop. So I pad on out to the living room only to see that my husband’s laptop is closed and off. We have a wireless network here at home and you can often see the networks of our neighbours. Ours has security, of course, but nonetheless it’s time to PANIC! WE HAVE A SECURITY BREECH!
EE is not for me
03.11.2008 @ 9:18am
I don’t know what it is, but there’s something about Expression Engine that doesn’t connect with me. And I have no idea what it is. I “get” Expression Engine more than I have any other CMS. It’s easy to work with and I’ve yet to tap into some of its more powerful abilities. Plus I’ve really only worked with the free ‘Core’ version so there’s a bunch of other stuff it could do if I would give the good folks over at Ellis Labs some cold, hard cash. But as I sit here, looking to redo my guild website yet again so that it becomes more of an actual community site, I hesitate before diving right in and doing it in EE.
Why is that?
Generic packaging is generic, mkay?
29.10.2008 @ 3:09pm
Once upon a time – long ago and in a world far, far away – I worked in marketing for what is now known as The Minute Maid Company and what was then known as Coca-Cola Foods. Most peope’s first response when I told them where I worked was “I didn’t know Coca-Cola made food...” which meant I’d have to explain that they didn’t, really. It was juices and juice drinks. I spent a lot of my time there (almost five years) working on the orange juice products and thus talking/thinking about what Tropicana was doing. So when I stumbled upon a post in Brand New about the new Tropicana packaging, I had to stop and read it. I saw the photo and thought, ‘Dear God, what the hell were they thinking in Bradenton when they approved that design?’
Green is not becoming
12.09.2008 @ 11:29pm
A friend of mine sent me an email. She’s not a particularly close friend – someone I haven’t seen in a very long time. But we keep in touch via the internet in that kind of disconnected way you do with people you like but probably won’t see again. The email wasn’t very long. It was basically just a little note she’d sent to all her friends to tell them about her new business. Her new web design business.
I’d be lying if I told you I wasn’t more than a little jealous. Here I am, with lots of thoughts and ideas in my head, and there she is actually doing something. So I went over to her site and I caught my breath. It was horrible.