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[the-paco.livejournal.com]

While having a job nice enough to where hold music is my only bad point of the day is cool and all...
( Another valve opens to release pent up steam )

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[darkblade1.livejournal.com]

Me: "Thank you for calling **** I'm PJ and I can help you."

Cust: "Yeah I keep getting all this spam about grandmas in bondage. Stop sending me this stuff!."

(By now I'm already laughing, but I compose myself and press on.)

Me: "Ok, go ahead and send it to spam@**** and we'll see if we can put it on the spam blocker list."

Cust: "You need to stop sending out filthy porn. I'm sick and tired of it."

Me: "We'll try our best sir to assist you in stopping porn spam."

*click* (Cust ends the call)


I bet the dude actually signed up for the crap. He sounded like a horndog.

This stuff is funny to hear. Why must people assume that we send and do everything to them? I don't think they understand the basic concept of the internet. It is an open type of media. You control it, it doesn't control you. Truthfully, I feel sorry for the admin that actually has to comb through those emails. There are some sick people out there. Geez...

/rant


X-posted to my LJ.

What if driving a car was as hard as using a computer?

[harry-whodunnit.livejournal.com]

This was written for an internal newsletter. Management didn't like it much, funnily enough. Maybe it belongs here.

( what if... )

From an official complaint from one of users

[byh.livejournal.com]

"...userid NNN has trouble printing documents because her computer is directly connected to a printer..."


"...also please take into consideration that a cheap integrated video adapter provides poor image quality which results in bad printouts..."

That's a negatory, Test Services.

[bamatone.livejournal.com]

So I work for a major U.S. university. And I love my job, but there are of course days you just want to be violent with people. We (the tech dept. for this building) get an email the last week of May asking if we could have the new computer science assessment test up and ready by June 1.

... Not exactly.

Firstly, you emailed us the test less than one week before you want it implemented. Secondly, the program we use for online placement testing (Questionmark Perception) isn't exactly user friendly. I have to create the test itself, then create each question for the test, uploading each individual graphic, naming it according to specs, and making them jive via html (where there is no preview function - you have to actually take the test to see the results of your efforts). Thirdly, three or four orientation groups have already taken the old CS assessment test. To use a different test for the rest of the incoming freshmen isn't exactly fair. Fourthly, the new test has 50 questions while the old one had 70, making the users' scores irrelevent in SQL Server. Yes, we can devise a fix pretty easily. But the point is I can't just drop in this new test in 5 minutes.

Phew.

Anyway, that said, what's a good, free text editor that supports color tags? I know this has been discussed on multiple posts. I opened up Semagic to look through the community history, but there's no way of searching comments. Currently I use EditPad Lite, which I love, but you have to upgrade to the Plus version to use color tags. I'm doing too much XHTML/CSS/ASP to get by without the color anymore, especially now that I'm looking at other people's code and working with it. Thanks for the advice.