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Today was crazy busy for me. I got stuck on some long calls and ended up being on the phone until the minute that I left (and the phones switch to another office 2 hours before I leave). I did, however, solve a problem for a customer that had been haunting us for a LONG [...]

I got a lot done on my website tonight. I tried adding a function to watermark the images that are uploaded to the server, but it appears that one of the functions I use in PHP isn’t working on my webhost for some super bizarre reason. I submitted a trouble ticket, but we’ll see how [...]

I had a mock “single diary entry” module written earlier today while at work and it was working kinda OK. It did what I needed…. well, it did what I thought I needed it to do at the time. Unfortunately, when I gave the situation some thought, it was far too specific and couldn’t easily [...]

It’s been another busy day at work. Blech. At least the phones won’t be ringing in 45 minutes. I worked through a few calls that were in the queue while everyone else is on longer calls and have managed to get a few minutes of downtime. While on some longer calls today I’ve been able [...]

Been busy and I finally have a few minutes to ramble before leaving. Got ready for work, did a bunch of INS stuff, filled out some bills, figured out my finances and did some mundane TOS stuff. Now it’s off to walk the dog, stop by the post office and then get to work. Yesterday [...]

Gotta be at my mom’s at about 1:00. Then we eat and watch everyone do presents. I hope my mom is in good spirits since it’s been such a short time since my grandmother passed away and she’s really sensitive to things like that. If nothing else, I think she should be too busy to [...]

What a good day today was. Slept in until 10 and drove Marria to work and hung around for a while. From there I went to my father’s place to see the “gift” that I had been alluding to for some time. Here are some pictures: The more observant may be able to tie this [...]

I’m at the shop and I decided that since nobody aside from Marria was here and she was cleaning up to jump on the computer. As I’m on BME a pop-up window fires off. I know BME doesn’t have any pop-up ads, so I open up AdAware and do a scan. Found 14 tracking cookies [...]

When I was fucking around with my wishlist earlier, it appears that 2 books were purchased (it said “received: 1″ in the description of it). Now, I have no idea who purchased these for me as nobody’s made any mention of it and I also haven’t received them. My second observation was that Amazon has [...]

It’s mad slow at work. Been here 2 hours and have had one call. It always gets like this about this time of year – nobody wants to do any work, so they simply don’t have a need to call us. So what have I done today… hmm… I reorganized my amazon wishlist. I added [...]