To be fair...

...despite my previous post (which I'm quite proud of), I'm none too impressed with Apple's web service. Their servers just seem slower than molasses, and the Webmail program still needs help.

And I just tried to watch their TV commercials on Apple's website - wouldn't load for me. Hmmmm....

I'm a PC...

...and I:

1) Crash all the time;
2) Have the hardest time waking up from sleep;
3) Take 8 minutes to start up and open two apps;
4) Won't let my user open an Access database from his own company's Intranet;
5) Require a Spyware/Adware program, and have to check for viruses every week;
6) Make my users feel like idiots; and

[*drum roll*]

7) Am NOT a Mac.

Thoughtful

The liberal left has tried to bash Palin for not knowing what the "Bush Doctrine" is. Do you know? Check it out. I doubt you do.

Two other notes: It's funny how the "news" on Thursday is that Obama was "planning" to bring more attack ads against McCain. Kinda like he's "planning" to save the world, part the seas, and reduce taxes while spending $150 BILLION on health care. Yeah, like that's happening. Just so turns out that his "planning" of big attack ads are more ad hom attacks - dealing with McCain's age instead of his policies. Poor, poor. And desperate.

Second - you've heard a lot about McCain and Palin campaigning together. I have this hunch that if they campaigned separately, Palin would pull tens of thousands to her rallies, and McCain might be lucky to get a few thousand. That wouldn't look so great, now, would it? Wonder how long they can keep this up??

BLOATED

Dude, I ate too many baked beans for lunch....Oh, wait, wrong topic.

I've been stymied over the last week by my Access database growing
from 1.7MB in size to over 34MB. Miraculously, I actually saw it
happen today in the blink of an eye. Since I knew what I had just
changed, I realized the issue was with a picture embedded in the
database.

You would think that a 560kb picture would only take up - yes - 560kb.
No, apparently it takes microsoft 32,000kb to fit that 560 into. Once
I linked the image instead of embedding it and then compacted the
database, it shrunk down to its pre-bloated state.

Maybe this is the same thinking that led Microsoft to spend $300
million on a pointless, dumb ad with Seinfeld and Bill Gates. And to
think, all they needed was a pizza box. [Links to come when I'm not on
my iPhone.]

Sent from my iPhone

85

Chad Johnson is no more. He is now Chad Ocho Cinco. Seriously.

Link to the story

Potty Paranoia

Even at the age of 2, it is quite easy to see where Amelia gets her tendencies. Most of her negative ones come from me. (And everyone thought I was such a good little boy.)

The latest is an aversion to potties in public places. Not potties in general, which is what my aversion was. (I absolutely would NOT go in public places, much to the detriment of my intestinal integrity. In fact, to digress, one of my worst - and most recurring - nightmares was having to go to the bathroom in a place where there were no doors on the stalls - with literally 30 or 40 johns lined up in a row.)

No, little Mia's problem comes from another of my childhood worries - fear of loud noises. The trend in most public places is for automatic toilets. A grand idea, in most cases. Not when it comes to little children. We've been able to assuage her fears by quickly moving her away from the toilet (in the 1/2 second before it flushes on its own). The response from the little one (mimicking what she's heard us say numerous times) is often: "That's not so bad."

But I think I may have traumatized her for good on Monday night. Dulles Town Center, to its credit, has a nice little family restroom, with a side-by-side big toilet and mini-kid toilet (flashback to my nightmare!). I sat Mia on the little one, she took care of necessities, and, as she is wont to do, she took her time to make sure she was finished (good little kid). Unfortunately, the kiddie toilet didn't appreciate the delay (or misinterpreted her "shifting" on the seat to a disembarkment) - and flushed AS SHE WAS STILL SITTING ON IT!!!  Ohhhh, you'd have thought the world had come to an end. Forget worries of bare feet on bathroom floors, forget fears of floating diseases. She was off that thing in a heartbeat.

I just have to ask: what engineer/interior designer thinks that having an automatic toilet for kids is a good idea?? Apparently, someone who has never had a child, or had to take a child to the bathroom.