Image by RubyVrooom via Flickr The coder sits behind his screen writing the prose that makes computers dance and do his bidding cheerfully His life is lonely; no one sees him as a person with deep emotions he’s a brain with no personality Typing away in a language cryptic his poetry translated by electronic chip set into images and actions directed by unseen command Although his world is of two dimensions His mind delves deep into both future and past To create wonderlands bound... Read Full Story

Image via Wikipedia I am so far over my head with my current project at work that I might as well be looking for an Orange New Jersey cosmetic dentist in Timbuktu Egypt. I know I took a couple of classes on SharePoint, but holy moley did they NOT prepare me for the reality! MAYBE just MAYBE if it were ONLY SharePoint I would have a bit more confidence in implementing what I learned in my classes, but it’s not “just” SharePoint but MOSS AND Business Portal. After what ... Read Full Story

Image by Fergal OP via Flickr There was a young man from Bath Who was very VERY bad at math When he added two plus two His answer just wouldn’t do So his teacher gave him a bit of his wrath * * * There once was a bird could not sing So she hid her head ‘neath her wing She felt so ashamed But she couldn’t to be blamed Everyone knows chickens can’t sing a thing! * * * There once was a clock in a cathedral Whose face was shaped tetrahedral When the time was at ten ... Read Full Story

Image by Getty Images via Daylife As I was driving into work this morning and listening to my favorite radio station, an interview with author James Ellroy came on. Now, I do enjoy reading crime novels, so was immediately captured by the subject of the interview. I was, however, totally unprepared for what came out of my speakers. Ellroy’s presence literally erupted from the radio, diminishing my own character with the strength of his. Reading his words on paper  gives you no sen... Read Full Story

View Larger Map I work for a service company. We provide maintenance and repair services to other companies for their food service equipment. That means we are a 24/7/365 business. Thank goodness I work normal hours. But I digress.. We try to do most of our administrative tasks in-house. We did try outsourcing our data entry at one time, but that was pretty bad. They were trying to read from faxed copies of handwritten documents and our technicians a. don’t spell well to begin with and... Read Full Story

Image by Getty Images via Daylife I know times are not good — I can’t really say they are bad because for me they aren’t. I’ve had worse and know from what I read in the news that there is MUCH worse out there. There was a time when this economic downturn would have had a more significant impact on us that it has. Yes, my power bill is higher and it costs me more to get to work. Some weeks are pretty tight money-wise, but we have survived the worst of it so far.... Read Full Story

Eyespi20 is hosted by Holdfire.net. Holdfire has been a fair host. It’s inexpensive and has a fairly good up-time record. They decided recently to retire the server my site was hosted on and put a new server in it’s place. That’s why you’ve been getting a “forbidden” page for the last 4 days — they were backing up the files on the server, then moving them to the new server. I asked them why they couldn’t have used something less off-putting to n... Read Full Story

About a month ago, I posted on the Farm Town Forum that I wanted to do a blog post here with interviews from some of the people who achieved level 34 (the highest one). I had a set of questions I asked that I thought would be interesting for those of you who are struggling with leveling up or just playing the game effectively. I was only able to interview 3 people and got widely varying answers to the most basic questions and similar answers on ones I truly expected variety on, so it just goe... Read Full Story

Some of you know our Ch Kemar’s Song of the South otherwise known as Butterfly. She’s a Whippet who has been my baby since she was born nearly 5 years ago. We wanted to wait to breed her until she finished her championship and had passed all her health testing. Those moons finally juxtaposed earlier this year, so then it was a matter of choosing a suitable mate and waiting for her to come into season. It was much easier to choose the mate than it was to wait for nature to take her... Read Full Story

Image via Wikipedia FarmTown is in beta version — in other words, it’s a work in process with the millions playing it the testers (unpaid of course!). So it’s no wonder that sometimes things don’t go exactly as planned. I mean who can anticipate all the crazy things people will want to do, right? Evidently, at first you could overlap fields. This enabled players to double up as it were on crops. Of course in the early days, more space for farming wasn’t av... Read Full Story