Winding Down the Week

Okay so it's been about a week since I posted something.  And then I realized I don't have anything much to say even after a week.

I totally missed some sort of debate last night because really... who wants to voluntarily watch a bunch of idiots blowing hot air? 

I haven't had time to take any pictures lately or even look at those I took a while back.  Then again I have such a low attention threshold I almost never feel like going back and working on photos I took longer ago than last week.

I picked up flipboard for my iphone.  I can't decide if I like it or not. I haven't created an account because they won't let me do it on my big computer and I'm too lazy to try doing it on my iphone with the tiny keyboard.  So I open it and flip through the stories hoping something really interesting will be included.  So far nothing has really grabbed me.  I've seen other people tweeting how much they love it so I must be doing something wrong. heh.

After a conversation I had earlier today I keep thinking I really really need to write a book titled: A Geek's Guide  Do-it-yourself computer security for people who think nothing will ever happen to them. The prospect is daunting though and I don't know where to start.  Oh my.

Okay I need to get back to writing some code. I think I've procrastinated long enough.  Have a nice weekend.

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Stuck in a rut is far less work

Saw this tweet go out today via Twitter Support:

Some users are unable to upload a new #avatar. We're aware of the issue & working to fix it.

And it occurred to me to wonder... how many people try to change their avatars and how often?  I know I see avatars that seem to be changed on a weekly and even daily basis on twitter and facebook. 

My thought?  There's at least 15 minutes of my life I won't get back just to change a teensy picture... not to mention the abusive tweets one decides must be written once one does waste the time to change the avatar only to find that twitter is (surprise!)  FUBAR.  And then the anxious waiting until twitter says "it's fixed".  Followed by more abusive tweeting to the twitter help after one finally gets the beloved avatar changed.

Yeah, it makes me tired just thinking about all that work for a teensy picture.  I think I'll go take a nap.
 

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Geekery

Tonight I am tired of computers. 

After setting up a server today and trying to set up access controls (the user can only do certain things and nothing else) I was wishing I could just tell the friggin' computer "this is what I want to let them do - nothing else - got it?"  At which point it would do all the nitpicky work and I'd be finished.

But then I realized as soon as we can tell computers this stuff, someone will figure out a way to tell the computer a long story, instead of giving it a command... something like Little Red Riding Hood... then they'd say "command shell". Then they would own your computer.  I call it Future Buffer Overflow.

I know this little post will lose me the last 3 readers who persist in reading... heh.

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