Tuesday, December 13, 2005, 04:29 PM - techFoo
#1 – Users Lie
Oh yes, they do. Don’t think you’re immune either. Have you ever been on a tech support call, convinced that you know the problem and the guy on the phone says something like “Would you put in the recovery CD, restart, and scan your memory?” “Oh, I’ve tried that,” you say with eyes rolling. Believe it or not, sometimes we crazy admin peeps suggest these fixes because they work. When a user is protesting my assessment, the best is to politely insist them to do what was asked until the doing is done.
#2 – Email is the Lifeblood of Non-Techies
I love my non-techie bretheren—I mean, how else would I know what happened on the OC and Gilmore Girls?—but at the end of the day, email is #1 in their book. Now a lot of it is business related, and certainly that shouldn’t be taken lightly, but most likely they were waiting on a warm, fuzzy message from their daughter or sister and really needed their email back up ASAP (“I’m waiting on a proposal!” they screech — see #1)
Read it all.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2005, 04:21 PM - blogFoo
Deliciously bad...
· He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
Joseph Romm, Washington
· She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.
Rich Murphy, Fairfax Station
· The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
Russell Beland, Springfield
· McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag filled with vegetable soup.
Paul Sabourin, Silver Spring
· From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and "Jeopardy" comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.
Roy Ashley, Washington
· Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.
Chuck Smith, Woodbridge
· Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.
Russell Beland, Springfield
· Bob was as perplexed as a hacker who means to access T:flw.quid55328.com\aaakk/ch@ung but gets T:\flw.quidaaakk/ch@ung by mistake
Ken Krattenmaker, Landover Hills
· Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
Unknown
· He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.
Jack Bross, Chevy Chase
· The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
Gary F. Hevel, Silver Spring
· Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man."
Russell Beland, Springfield
· Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
Jennifer Hart, Arlington
· The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.
Wayne Goode, Madison, Ala.
· They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth
Paul Kocak, Syracuse, N.Y.
· John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
Russell Beland, Springfield
· The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.
Barbara Fetherolf, Alexandria
· His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free
Chuck Smith, Woodbridge
· The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.
Unknown
Hat Tip OXymoron via Michaele Malkin
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Friday, December 2, 2005, 09:46 PM - blogFoo
Archive data to follow.UPDATED: Switch over is complete. Archive availiable for this year only; I'll be adding the rest later. I wanted to switch to this as I have decided to orphan the blogFoo software I was writing. Simple PHP Blog uses flat text files for the data source, and serves pages much faster.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005, 05:30 PM - politiFoo
Hat tip: Michelle Malkin
UPDATED: If you liked that, try Who Said It
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Monday, October 31, 2005, 05:30 PM - blogFoo
Tate's First Law: The person who pulls into light traffic, disregarding the rate of travel of the existing vehicles, will turn almost immediately.| [ 0 trackbacks ] | permalink
Thursday, October 6, 2005, 04:30 PM - blogFoo
Wasn't sure whether to add them as a blog or a comic....UPDATED: NewsBusters is a Blog, Gaggle is the comic.
NewsBusters
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Monday, October 3, 2005, 04:30 PM - politiFoo
This looks about right...
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Monday, October 3, 2005, 04:30 PM - blogFoo
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Monday, September 26, 2005, 04:30 PM - politiFoo
It seems that September 11th didn't waken just Americans.
A timeline of key dates in the decommissioning process that led up to the IRA's weapons being put beyond use.
I'm glad to see the IRA disarming, putting terrorism and violence behind them, and abandoning victimization.
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Tuesday, September 6, 2005, 04:30 PM
I wanted to link to Lt. Colonel Dave Grossman's excellent essay on Sheep, wolves and Sheepdogs (actually I wrote him requesting permission to post it in it's entirety), but this essay (which quotes Lt. Colonel Dave Grossman) is more than worth the time it takes to read. Bill Whittle is right, to just be the busboy at that table would be worth it.Read it.
Read it all.
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Friday, September 2, 2005, 04:30 PM
Live blogging (with pics) from a N.O. ISPThe Interdictor
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Friday, August 12, 2005, 04:30 PM - politiFoo
Only now, at the end, do they understand....
Maybe I've been reading Frank J. too much. In MY world...
Go get 'em Rummy!
(Hover mouse to see)
UPDATED:
Now based on Glenn Reynolds comment, "His Kung Fu is Strong"
UPDATED 12-5: Javascript not working; posting all pics.
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