Weekend Update

[dr_tectonic]

Man, I am just sucking at updating regularly.

Had a fine, fine weekend, which kung_fu_monkey and saintpookie have also blogged about. Friday night I made dinner and we played Gloom and Monkeyball and then I stayed up til 4 am talking with Greg.

Saturday daytime was mostly about picking up the house. Anime Night was smaller than we were expecting, but that ended up being for the best, I think. As we mentioned, don't watch Crying Feeman unless you're ready for Naked-Power™! Not really worse than, say, something R-rated on Skinemax, but, yeah, kinda gratuitous. I'm just glad we have Fruits Basket to make it all better.

Took S'Pookie back up to Ft. Collins Sunday afternoon. As God-Emperor of Planet Xerth-Q3, I'm hereby directing the universe to send a job his way and get him relocated down here to Denver, 'cuz that would be good.

I also got a call from my aunt Judy this weekend. (She is the bestest aunt.) The pictures I sent got there, yay! I printed out a pair of good pictures of me & Jerry at Jeff & Alice's wedding. One has him poking me with a fork, and in the other I'm eating his cake. I also sent a picture of me at the WWII memorial in Washington D.C. for my grandfather, who's a WWII vet. I actually managed to get a good picture of myself with the self-timer on my camera, which was pretty cool.

Today at work I learned (as if it's something new, HA!) that MS Internet Explorer is, yes, stupid. If you download a jarfile off a webpage, IE notices that it's a type of archive and changes it to a .zip file! Isn't that clever?

I think I'm fighting off a cold. Zinc lozenges are probably forestalling it, but my throat is sore. I may sleep in tomorrow; we'll see how I feel in the morning.

Comments

[navrins]

It never did that for me, and I've downloaded lots of jar files lately.

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

We suspect it has to do with what MIME-type the server declares for the jarfile. Of course, we don't know what the right type to use it, we just know that "application/octet-stream" jarfiles look like archives to IE running under XP, at least sometimes.

[ng-nighthawk.livejournal.com]

Just like the Radiant toolset from IBM, I believe MS products are fundamentally meant to work with each other. Separate one out from the rest and things go bad.

I mean, seriously. Imagine yourself in Redmond. "OK guys, now we want to port IE over to Mac and *nix. We need to put in lots of hours of testing to make sure this is completely compatible, because we want to make sure that those users have access to the power of MS browsing as easily as Windows users."

And the crowd erupts in raucous laughter.

I'm not saying I have jobs in my backpack, but if I did, which one should I give S'Pookie?

[k8cre8.livejournal.com]

Your IE problem is a perfect example of what I hate most about Microsoft. Microsoft's products are built on the assumption that it *knows* better than you do, and so it tries to do your thinking for you. Occassionally, this works.

But, most of the time, it just manages to screw everything up. Badly.

This especially hurts the people that don't know better, the very people this was designed to be "helpful" for. It drives me nuts.