http://moronicbajebus.com Banana Ice Cream! Tue, 13 May 2008 02:21:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tonight I watched a bit of the QVC Dell Computer sales pitch. Part of the pitch was the expensive software which comes pre-installed. I noticed the following Open Office 2.0, Sunbird Calendar, and Thunderbird Email. http://moronicbajebus.com/2008/05/12/qvc-load-your-dell-computer-with-expensive-open-source-software/ When I installed Firefox 3b5 on Windows Vista, I could no longer download files because they were marked as possible malware. The download window would show the file with the message, "Blocked: Download may contain a virus or spyware." I tried changing the security settings, as suggested, to no avail. ... http://moronicbajebus.com/2008/05/07/firefox-3b-and-blocked-downloads/ For about four weeks now, I have been playing around off and on with Drupal. What impresses me the most about Drupal is it seems more forward thinking about what a CMS is compared to most other systems I have seen. But my one big gripe is the admin interfaces ... http://moronicbajebus.com/2008/04/24/drupal-module-admin-interfaces/ I received this email today at work and I am amazed. To quote my coworker, "what an ass." To: Seamus Leahy Good morning, Seamus: We recently sent you some very important email information on (February 6th & April 3rd) with a couple of followup phone calls. We previously provided this ... http://moronicbajebus.com/2008/04/23/did-i-really-get-this-email/ A good collection of inspirations forgrid based web designs. I have already been using several of them as grid inspiration as it relates to the work at my job. http://moronicbajebus.com/2008/03/05/grid-based-web-desing-examples/ I keep thinking about where I want to go next with this website. It will continue to be experimental and the content will be similar. But other than those two I am open to a new direction. But I just keep coming back to one single idea. It is centered around ... http://moronicbajebus.com/2008/03/05/when-i-look-into-your-eyes/ The National Museum of Women in the Arts’ website with a single extra line of text has saved me from opening a tab with Google Maps. If the proximity to Metro Center was not there, I would have look up the address in Google Maps and find the nearest Metro station. ... http://moronicbajebus.com/2008/03/05/cool-no-need-to-open-google-maps/ I am befuddled as to what to say. I'll let the picture say it instead. For those who do not know, CareFirst is a health insurance company. I cannot help to wonder if this is related to a phone conversation I had two years ago with a CareFirst employee located in Baltimore ... http://moronicbajebus.com/2008/03/05/carefirst-this-explains-too-much/ A little note for myself and anyone else. I have not tested this yet but hopefully I will soon. From my snooping, Wordpress 2.2.x has a new hook and has changed a hook. Before 2.2, the delete_post hook was called after the post was deleted. With 2.2, delete_post hook is ... http://moronicbajebus.com/2007/10/11/delete_post-and-deleted_post/ A recent message I received via the contact form: your site is disgusting worst site ever... slow.. wide(wtf) - and i've never complained about a site before.. id rather eat my own face then come back here. ...and I have never complained about a lack of capitalization. I am just kidding about the ... http://moronicbajebus.com/2007/09/30/your-site-is-disgusting/