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Trashy Allied Waste/BFI Service

I’m disappointed in the Alpharetta city services today, specifically the garbage collection done by BFI, now owned by Allied Waste Industries. The photos here are what’s left on our street after the collectors came through. The blue box and white styrofoam are from the new ceiling fan, freshly installed yesterday. I can understand them perhaps […]

Cheesy Fourth

A bit o’ what Commander Dave would call a Cheese Sandwich post today – just a slice of life. Today’s task is to purchase and install a new ceiling fan to replace the one that broke last night. The darn thing had been threatening me for long enough and I finally bumped it and it […]

RSS Hacked?

John Porcaro’s weblog looks fine tonight, nothing odd. The state of his feed is a completely different matter though. Behind his back, someone’s done a dasterdly deed – replacing John’s xml (normally provided in a proper fashion by the folks at FeedBurner) with their own. A file full of vile stuff – adverts for phenobarbital, […]

Office 2007

Also currently in beta from Microsoft is Office 2007. Mike McBride got his Office Beta Blog going again, good info there. There are huge user interface (UI) changes. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook’s message window now sport the ribbon, while oddly enough Outlook’s main window doesn’t. As for that whole ribbon thing, there’s obviously plenty […]

Windows Vista, OS X

The guys over at LifeHacker.com have noticed that Windows Vista looks a lot like Mac OS X. That doesn’t really come as much of a surprise, the way that software (in the larger, general sense) evolves; vendors see what works for other companies, “borrow” or “steal” (depending on your point of view) from each other […]

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