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Emergency phone replacement time

Don — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:51:08 +0000

Not an emergency phone that needs replacement, but rather an acknowledgement that I’ve waited to replace my old phone for so long that the battery life seems to have fallen off a cliff. The last two weeks or so, it’s been degraded enough that an 8 hour workday, without any usage, was enough to put the charge level into the red. But this morning, I’m at best 6 hours into a charge, and it’s already below 25%.

And now it just started to reboot itself for no obvious reason.

Nancy Brinker (still) is a terrible person

Don — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:20:47 +0000

CEO of the Susan G Komen foundation, she has chosen to destroy the charity she created, by crashing it headlong onto the rocks of the abortion debate. Choosing cowardice and self-hate, she caved to Republican pressure to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood, and showed that she is willing to sacrifice the lives of millions of women.

But she isn’t just a terrible human being, she’s also a failure. Her pathetic decision has resulted in more donations for Planned Parenthood in the last two days, than they got from Susan G Komen in an entire year.

So, screw you Nancy Brinker, or rather, thank you for reminding me to donate to any cause that you oppose. And doubly screw you for what you have done to all the women with breast cancer, who will now have to find new resources, or face the moral dilemma of accepting help from the devil.

UPDATE: The Komen foundation has released a rather weasel worded change of heart, that makes it clear that they are only sorry they got caught, not that they regret trying to take away healthcare options from women. The more you learn about the Susan G Komen foundation (less than 21% of their money is spent on actual research), the more it seems like a bit of close attention to what they are actually all about, is in the best interest of everyone. I can only imagine how many people’s live would be improved if they spent even $300,000 less on Nancy Brinker’s unearned salary of $495,000. She would still be wealthy beyond the dreams of most American women, and might have some sort of ethical leg to stand on. As is, she just seems like a heartless woman who exploited the death of her sister for her own gain.

One Step Forward, Two Steps Side-to-Side

Don — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:52:54 +0000

After going to all the trouble of figuring out Selenium and JUnit, it turns out I was mis-remembering, and it should have been TestNG for my testing framework. d’ohwell, it shouldn’t be too hard to move from one to the other.

Oh Happy Day

Don — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:10:58 +0000

Finally figured out all my Selenium issues. Well, not all of them, in that I still don’t get the Grid system, but I at least know enough about it to know I don’t need it, so that problem is solved in its own way too.

As of now, I’ve got three remote drones, one for IE, one for Firefox, and one for Chrome. I can execute JUnit tests against all three targets, for the webservice running elsewhere.

Finally, I can start thinking about what I actually want to test, without worrying about if I can make it happen.

Hulu Plus is dog food

Don — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:06:58 +0000

They defend the inclusion of advertising in the paid-tier of service by touting its cheapness.

I could buy dog food for a lot cheaper than steak, doesn’t mean I’m going to eat it. At this point, it isn’t even worth free.

Livin in a movie

Don — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:33:44 +0000

It’s a little surreal today, first the governor declares a state of emergency, and now the city is recommending people leave work now, so that they are home before dark. It’s like we expect the zombies and vampires to come out any second now. Will I make the 100 yards to my home?! Only time will tell! Tune in next week for the exciting conclusion. =p

Clippy lives on at Google

Don — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:24:38 +0000

It would seem the geekworld’s favorite helper-to-hate, Clippy, has gotten a job at Google’s GMail division. You can see his influence in the new look, with it’s unhelpful way of showing and hiding buttons, assuming you can’t keep track of who your friends are by name, nor really want to see your big screen monitor actually full of useful information.

Hopefully someone will notice, and fire his ass, before it’s too late =p

The way it goes

Don — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:03:35 +0000

Less than 10, out of hundreds potential, are here at work today, but of course, the guy with an office directly across the hall from me is one of those 10, so I can’t just leave my door open and really crank up the tunes.

Oh well.

At least I finally got ChromeDriver to work, when everything is local. Still can’t figure out what’s wrong with my remote system. One day at a time.

I Tried

Don — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:30:20 +0000

I tried to do a good deed for the day. I see more than a few people, over the course of this ‘storm’, waiting at the bus stop outside my window at work, a stop that is closed when Metro is on snow routes. So, I put a sign up in the window that says “Bus Stop Closed”, and it only took this guy about 10 minutes before he looked up an noticed it.

Ah Miss-Spellings

Don — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:46:41 +0000

No, not Tori.

A cousin/uncle/whatever, about a niece or daughter…a little girl he feels nothing but familial love for, I’m sure, he posts a pic of her to facebook, with the intent of captioning her as ornery, as in precocious and troublesome in a cute sort of way, but instead calls her honry, which at first glance makes it look like he’s calling a tweenager ‘horny’.

Probably not his intent.