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Zen Haiku: February 2006 Archives
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Zen Haiku: Usability, General Topics and A Bit of Poetry by Chad Lundgren. 171; July 2005. October 2006 ». Lazy Programmers are Bad. The Comcast DVR (the Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000) sucks so much more than a Tivo that it beggars belief, showing that lazy programmers can be bad:. 4 This seems like a good time to mention that the remote is even slower than the somewhat sluggish Tivo remote. 5 The on-demand is buggy. If you switch to the on-demand channel and dare to change the channel while it's ...
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Zen Haiku: August 2004 Archives
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Zen Haiku: Usability, General Topics and A Bit of Poetry by Chad Lundgren. 171; July 2004. September 2004 ». Hidden Information Strikes Again. Without bothering to ask us, our hosting company decided to move us to a new hosting center. Since my wife and I use a reseller package (for zenhaiku and a number of other sites), we have our own DNS servers. OK, they just point to someone else's but close enough. The first problem had been solved: all the websites were talking to the right nameservers. Howeve...
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Zen Haiku: June 2004 Archives
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Zen Haiku: Usability, General Topics and A Bit of Poetry by Chad Lundgren. 171; May 2004. July 2004 ». Sprint PCS Customer Service Follies. I was trying to get my wife Karen's defective cell phone replaced. The repair place had never seen the model in question and the national phone number, which I had to call 4 times to get a human, said they couldn't just send a replacement because it's not being made any more. An automated "Good bye". And they hung me up! What's up with that? Seattle Sunset background...
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Zen Haiku: July 2005 Archives
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Zen Haiku: Usability, General Topics and A Bit of Poetry by Chad Lundgren. 171; June 2005. February 2006 ». Canon S1 IS Pictures and A Mini-Rant. Update (11/14/2006): Check out www.FiendishMasterPlan.com. For another sunset picture, this one set in Albuquerque. I haven't been posting regularly for quite some time, but the site's not dead, just going through a slow period. However, I have been taking quite a few pictures with a Canon Powershot S1 IS. Which I've had for nearly six months now. Atkins.co...
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Zen Haiku: October 2006 Archives
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Zen Haiku: Usability, General Topics and A Bit of Poetry by Chad Lundgren. 171; February 2006. The Weblog is Dead, Long Live the Web Log. Hi, remember me? I haven't posted here since February. What's new? We have a dual-tuner Tivo, which is quite nice, a huge upgrade over the craptastic Comcast DVR, and my wife Karen and I have started a weblog called Fiendish Master Plan. The first substantial posting is one in which we expose the so-called "Santa Fe Salsa". Complete with pictures and everything.
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Zen Haiku: Usability, General Topics and A Bit of Poetry by Chad Lundgren. Sitting in a Tree. The more astute among you may have noticed someone named Karen has been popping up with increasing frequency on this site, culminating with her post. I had urged her to post and she finally took me up on it.) You may also have noticed that some time back I modified the about us page. To reflect the fact that I was in a committed relationship. Being the sneaky sort that I am, I didn't say with who. So if anyone o...
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Zen Haiku: June 2005 Archives
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Zen Haiku: Usability, General Topics and A Bit of Poetry by Chad Lundgren. 171; March 2005. July 2005 ». Parsley is a kind of lettuce. So I went shopping about a week ago, and it took way too long. One reason is that my shopping list had listed:. I was feeling ambitious, so I went to the organic chain. The tag for parsley, but I was tired enough at that point where that didn't click. He asked. "The lettuce section? Why would they put it there? But, sure enough, there it was. How is parsley not a spice?
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Zen Haiku: December 2004 Archives
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Zen Haiku: Usability, General Topics and A Bit of Poetry by Chad Lundgren. 171; September 2004. March 2005 ». Turning the Sound off in Ad-Aware 1.05. Spybot Search and Destroy. Was my mainstay in keeping my Windows system free of spyware until recently, when Lavasoft released a new version of Ad-Aware. Ad-Aware had been my favorite but wasn't updated for a long while. Why not make blanking the file work, or at least indicate it didn't, rather than silently (or noisily! All said, I have to recommend you l...
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Zen Haiku: Usability, General Topics and A Bit of Poetry by Chad Lundgren. Canon S1 IS Pictures and A Mini-Rant. Update (11/14/2006): Check out www.FiendishMasterPlan.com. For another sunset picture, this one set in Albuquerque. I haven't been posting regularly for quite some time, but the site's not dead, just going through a slow period. However, I have been taking quite a few pictures with a Canon Powershot S1 IS. Which I've had for nearly six months now. The purple fringing issue. I had seen one of A...
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Zen Haiku: March 2005 Archives
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Zen Haiku: Usability, General Topics and A Bit of Poetry by Chad Lundgren. 171; December 2004. June 2005 ». Adobe Acrobat Updates Broken. Adobe Acrobat Reader has long been a whipping boy. For usability types. In fact, here on Zen Haiku, I've dissed Acrobat before. Well, I'm (re)joining the fray. I went to look at a PDF file, and this is what I saw (shrunk down a bit to fit in my web site):. Why isn't the update automatically selected? What's up with making me pick an update when there's only one? Unless...