SCOTS – 4-25-2004

Another kill SCOTS show last night. Rick blistered through about 20 songs in an hour – new guy on rhythm guitar / trumpet, not sure what that was about. No Fender Rhodes this time.

Sunday night shows are hard, boys, can we get a weekend one of these days?

VS.NET – STOP REFORMATTING MY HTML

Visual Studio reformats your HTML as it pleases when switching from design to HTML mode – a massive bug!.

(c) Mike Moore/Microsoft.
I found that the development team did seriously consider this bug. The first thought was to add an option to turn off the reformatting feature. Unfortunately, it turned out to be deeply integrated in the code that makes the editor useful. So, it could not be turned off. Nor could it easily be fixed. Any changes made to this area of the code would definitely impact many aspects of the editor.

Note to Microsoft’s VS.NET group – you blew it! Fix the bug, fix it before Whidbey!

Yes, I’m a Dork

Apprentice finale tonight. My money is on Bill, AKA ‘Mr. Competent’

In the meanwhile, check out these pics of the girls of the Apprentice.

Trax

* Milshake – Kelis
* Shake it Like a Salt Shaker – YinYang Twinz feat. l’il Jon
* Mojo Box – SCOTS
* INXS – Kick
* Talking Heads – Sand in the Vaseline
* Best of – The Doors
* Live Era: ’87-93 – Guns N’ Roses

The Fifty

So 8 months later and I’m pulling the 50. It’s not really as bad, or as good, as I thought it would be. It’s not The 60, or the dreaded 70, which is good.

I’m not going to trash the place here, even though I want to. It probably doesn’t deserve to be trashed.

There are some people in this world who exist solely for the sake of driving me up a wall. I am convinced of that.

Cubicles suck. Cubicles near heavily trafficked hallways suck. Speakerphone sucks.

In general, Corporate America™ reminds me more of High School than anything.

“What’s Best for the Company” may not be.

There exists a certain point where you schedule, or you die. There are 2 kinds of schedules: “Your schedule” and “their schedule”. Some people don’t understand that “their priorities” may not be “your priotities”.

99% percent of “What’s Best for the Company” is “their priorities”

The law of the schoolyard applies.

Rank & Title matter. Politics matter. Politics sucks.

You may have to fight to do your job.

For every minute of time you save with a Microsoft™ product, you waste one working around a tiny, ridiculous, issue. Learn from the past, just copy the code from the MSDN. It seems to have worked for VB programmers for years.