Archive for the ‘General’ Category

Can’t find the problem, say there isn’t one–that’s the Compaq way

Wednesday, December 1st, 2004

My computer is still broken–it broken when I was at MAX, right before my preso. I took it in to CompUSA where I bought it (at the time I had to get it same day, so ordering online wasn’t an option) for service and they sent it in to Compaq. Before sending it in they confirmed the computer wouldn’t boot.

Apparently Compaq looked at it, didn’t find a problem, and sent it back marked not reproducible. The computer doesn’t boot. How can you not reproduce this problem? So CompUSA is sending it again back to Compaq and I’m still without a laptop.

The list of companies and products I won’t use is getting longer now… CompUSA, Compaq, HP, Toshiba. I should probably just stick with an abacus, they don’t break.

Favourite Outlook Plug-in

Thursday, August 19th, 2004

Microsoft recently aquired Lookout, a company who’s search plug-in for Outlook I can’t recommend enough. After purchasing Lookout, Microsoft initially shut down sales of the product, but recently has released the plug-in for free, so if you use Outlook make sure to grab the plug-in. I can’t imagine using Outlook without it anymore.

You can download it here

Sam Neff a Dad!

Tuesday, March 16th, 2004

SamÂ’s been away the past couple of days for a good reason. He is now the proud father of Benjamin Ryan Neff, the latest addition to the Neff family. Benjamin was born March 11, 2004 at 1:44 am and weighing 8 lbs, 12 oz and 20.75 inches long. If you donÂ’t see Sam around much in cyberspace, heÂ’s probably busy changing diapers:)

Congratulations Sam!

Old-School DataGrid

Monday, December 8th, 2003

I know that I usually post Flash specific posts but this was too cool and I wanted to make sure I had it down somewhere in case I ever needed it. It is a DHTML implemented DataGrid that is cross-browser compatible too. I found it pretty impressive http://www.activeui.net/examples.htm

More reasons not to trust instant messenger

Monday, December 8th, 2003

We’ve been using Yahoo instant messenger for a few years within our company–we’re all spread out amongst several different offices. We’ve run into issues before where characters get converted to smileys unintentionally–as often happens with code–or with messages never being received, but today for the first time we actually had a message sent incorrectly.

yahoo error

Chafic’s window is on the left and mine is on the right. Notice the code in the middle, <html get’s converted to Zhtml. Not sure what caused that.