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QUOTE OF THE DAY
Noel Coward
>“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.”
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Dan Bellack
>“Life is too short for traffic.”
EYENO CENTRAL COMMAND - PART 2
While in Calgary, I learned that I had won the 649 Lottery pool at work. A free $400! What to do, what to do.
Off to Staples this morning to pick up a few more things to complete EyeNo Central Command. A new leather desk chair and a wireless keyboard/mouse combo. The chair went together in about 20 minutes and is mucho comfortable. Add a Logitech combo to get rid of the wires on the desk and this office is starting to look pretty sharp.
Perhaps it will improve my writing.
THE TRIP HOME
Flew home from Calgary last night on Air Canada. I’m not sure what to think about our “National” carrier nowadays. The flight was on time, the flight attendants were professional and the food was edible. I guess that’s all you can expect in this new age of efficient air travel. It’s hard to put your finger on it but I guess I could sum it up by saying there’s no soul evident.
I flew on an Airbus A321. A nice aircraft with comfortable seats and acceptable leg room. I was originally scheduled to leave at 5:20 but managed to get on the 3:15 flight. That’s a story in itself. I was flying on a Tango fare plan which means you can’t make any changes to your flight - you can’t even go standby for an earlier departure. I ended up paying to leave earlier instead of sitting around the airport for 4 hours. Why in hell’s name wouldn’t they let you change if there’s seat availability?? Do they really think that people are going to walk in 2 hours before a flight and pay full dollar for a ride? That sums up the new Air Canada percisely. The check-in agent was apologetic but he had absolutely no leeway to change the rules. I remember when a friendly agent could upgrade you just because he or she was having a good day. Not any more. There are rules and they have to follow them. Robert Milton has destroyed the soul of what was once the finest airline in the world. A sad, sad day.
Quite a bit colder here in Toronto than it was in Calgary even if everyone says it’s really warmed up.
I’M COMING HOME
Still in Calgary. Didn’t bother trying to reset my internal clock so I’m writing this at 4:15 in the morning local time. I’ll be back home tonight by midnight so this is going to be a long day.
Got everything done that I’d planned on so today is a day for catching up on emails, working on some problems and then we’ll take a departing employee out for a farewell lunch.
The weather here has been great for late January. Yesterday it got up to 10C and was sunny. Looking out at the mountains, you can see a line of clouds that looks permanent and the locals tell me this is a tell-tale sign of a Chinook wind which accounts for the warm temperatures.
Last night we went out for a feed of Alberta beef. Mad Cow be dammed, that’s fine eating!
ANOTHER ROAD TRIP
Greetings from Calgary! Out here for a couple of days to conduct some business. Foggy as hell but at least it’s not snowing like it was in Toronto this morning.
More later!
GOODNIGHT JOHNNY
Just ran across the sad news that Johnny Carson passed away today. Carson reinvented late night TV and spawned a thousand talk shows that could never hold a candle to his.
EYENO CENTRAL COMMAND
!@(officebefore.jpg:R240 http://www.eyeno.net/images/officebefore.jpg “office before”) I spend a lot of time in my home office. Located in our basement, I catch up on work from the office, I work on this blog, listen to music and watch TV. It’s a mess. Badly laid out and full of mismatched furniture. While I was up in Wasaga Beach this week, my wonderful wife went out and bought me a new desk. Quite a surprise when I got back to see two huge boxes in the middle of the living room. Not as much fun when I opened them up to find about 100 different pieces, 20 pounds of hardware and an instruction manual only slightly smaller than “War And Peace”. Time to get started.
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!@(officeempty.jpg:L240 http://www.eyeno.net/images/officeempty.jpg “empty office”) First thing to do is clean out the area and give myself some place to work. A lot more space than it looks when full of crap. The next step is to hump all the pieces out of the living room and down the stairs. Takes about 45 minutes and finally I can start assembly.
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!@(officesarah.jpg:R240 http://www.eyeno.net/images/officesarah.jpg “Sarah”) Sarah the “forecat” shows up to remark “Wow! Look at all the stuff to play with.” I start banging around so she decides that it’s probably a wise idea to head for cover. She’ll be back later when the major work is done.
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!@(officemaggie.jpg:L240 http://www.eyeno.net/images/officemaggie.jpg “Maggie”) Not to be outdone, Maggie decides to show up but she bores very easily and doesn’t hang around long either. Around this time, I had to take a break and go outside to shovel the 6 inches or snow that has fallen and is now being blown around by a raw North wind that is giving us a windchill of about -30. That’s one way to cool down after some manual labor.
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!@(officemiddle.jpg:R240 http://www.eyeno.net/images/officemiddle.jpg “end of day1″) Shovelled the snow one more time, went to Jake’s for a few beverages, back home for a quick dinner and back to the basement. Continued working until 10:00 PM. Pretty good progress with the base complete and the hutch ready to be installed and finished. I’m tired and sore. Tomorrow is another day.
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!@(officedone.jpg:L240 http://www.eyeno.net/images/officedone.jpg “Done”) A couple of hours on Sunday morning and the desk is complete. Sarah shows up again to check my handiwork and pronounces everything OK.
All together, it took about 7 1/2 hours of actual construction time.
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!@(officeready.jpg:R240 http://www.eyeno.net/images/officeready.jpg “ready”) Finally time to start hooking up all the electronics. PC, monitor, scanner, printer, wi-fi router and cable modem. Enough to get Eyeno Central Command back online. Getting everything else back together will probably take a few weeks but I now have a real office to work in. Thanks Jan!
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SUNDAY’S PICTURE
Maxine and Patrick relaxing
BLOGGING IN 2005
On-line journal, weblog, Blog. I don’t know who first came up with the idea but hundreds of thousands of blogs now exist. Once a rather private and geeky thing, blogs are now almost mainstream. The US presidential election of 2004 gave the blog an air of importance. Writers, some anonymous, brought fact and rumors to the world faster than CNN. The world started to take notice.
What was once a harmless way to pass the time is now at a crossroads. Bloggers are being fired by the companies they work for because they cast the company in a bad light or divulge corporate secrets. I myself have already been called on my manager’s carpet for things that I have said. This wasn’t because I was so popular in cyberspace that the Wall Street Journal did a story on my brilliant pose. No, it was much more mundane than that. I mentioned the company I work for in my profile and a simple Google search returned links to this little piece of the Internet. Some things I said made the people who write my paycheque uneasy and I was asked to remove all corporate references from my site. I agonized for a few minutes and, wisely I think, decided that it was better to keep the money flowing in than making a stand for freedom of speech. I felt a little dirty about it but I got over it.
Only a handful of readers visit here on a daily basis. Some are friends, some are family but most arrive here as result of a search engine. Sometimes they come back. I used to get more hits when I filled the screen with links to wierd little oddities that I found on others’ sites. Some came when I did my anti-Bush rants in the run up to the elections. I don’t do those anymore. My business requires me to make infrequent visits to the US. Frankly, I’m worried that something I might say here with tongue lodged firmly in cheek might be read by people with zero sense of humor. Being put on a no-fly list would be the end of my job. Again, I’ll err on the side of my wallet.
Is blogging a fad? Probably. In some ways I still think the Internet is a fad. With viruses, spyware and more and more “real news” outlets moving their websites to subscriber only access, the glorious days of a bunch of nerds trying to figure out how far this little experiment would go are nearing an end. Now everyone wants to figure out how to make a buck off this thing. I am guilty of the same thing. You notice the Google Ads and the links to Amazon.com and Amazon.ca? I wouldn’t mind covering some of the expenses of running this site but I’m not going to beat anyone over the head to get a couple of bucks.
Regular readers have noticed that I’m not posting on a regular basis. There’s an ebb and flow to my desire to keep EyeNo’s Blog current. Right now I’m in a definite ebb period. That may change tomorrow or this could be the last post ever. Who knows? I sure don’t.
One of my thoughts is to let you contribute posts yourself. If anyone’s interested, drop me a note in comments and I’ll set you up. Posting is easy and can be done from anywhere. As an added bonus, I’ll even give you access to the gallery so you can upload your pictures and share them with the world.
Heck, we could even change the name of this thing.
LISSEN UP HOMIE
From now on, I wish to be known by my pimp name Master Blaster EyeNo Swingin’.
Grab your name here.
Word to yo Mama!!
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Herbert Hoover
>“About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”
OH SHIT! NOT AGAIN!
1999 was a terrible year to be an IT manager. The Y2K “problem” drove everyone apeshit. Lawyers got involved and the company I work for went crazy with plans and demands. One notable example was their memo that asked me to get a guarantee in writing from Ontario Hydro that, in the event that their systems crashed at midnight, they would cover any of our business losses. Hyrdo, of course, said “pound salt” in legalese that turned your brain to mush if you tried to read it. Things got so bad that I started smoking again after being off the demon weed for 10 years.
Well, 01/01/2000 came and went and the world went on. Now we have to worry about the Year 2038 Bug. The way this site explains it, at percisely Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 all the computers in the world will revert to 1901.
I’m not sure how worried I should be - I’ll be 86 when it happens.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Mark Russell
>“The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.”
THEY STILL NEED YOUR HELP
By now, some of us have become numb to the constant stream of news requiring the earthquake and resulting tusnami that wreaked devestation on 9 countires. 50,000 dead - 100,000 dead - 150,000 dead. After a while, it just becomes a number. To remind you of what really happened, I’ve come across an image that makes it very clear.
WARNING this image is very, very graphic.
The survivors still need your help! Click on the Amazon image to donate online or pick your own. It doesn’t matter who or how much as long as we all do something.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
David Brinkley
>“The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.”
GOOD ADVICE
The winner of the EIGHTH ANNUAL WACKY WARNING LABEL CONTEST presented by Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch is the toilet brush that comes with the warning:
> “Do not use for personal hygiene”
This gem beat out such notables as the warning on a digital thermometer “Once used rectally, the thermometer should not be used orally.”
I for one am glad that manufacturers address the need to protect ourselves from ourselves. Hats off to you Captains of Industry.
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