Like a pebble in your shoe
Don’t we love technology? Of course we do, only a crazy person would otherwise put up with the persistent roller coaster of excitement and disappointments that comes with the territory when you practice IT on a daily basis.
For example, only moments ago, while I was working on this comment, Internet Explorer crashed a few times blaming an Adobe Flash plug-in.
To add insult to injury, I wasn’t even using IE at crash time; The browser was just sitting there while I typed away in another window.
More frustrating yet, why did IE had to concede defeat like an unmoving presidential candidate only because an add-on goes south?
I am tempted to get on a thousand words tirade about the benefits of task isolation and suggest severe sentences for non compliance, but I won't.
Perhaps a better idea would be to issue a citation to the programmers responsible for the misbehaving code, and force them to take a defensive programming class within 90 days.
I am not holding my breath on that either, but IE repeated crashing this morning is a good stage-setting for today’s Test Center Tracker. Please read on for more pebbles in your shoes.
How hard can that be? This pebble was found by Sean McCown, who began scratching his head while doing some code maintenance. No, Sean didn’t have to challenge new frontiers, nor was he about to enter an uncharted programming universe. His relatively easy task was to do a search and replace on some SQL queries. How hard can that be? Find out from Sean.
Time for a new phone? When was the last time you looked at your cell phone with a critical eye? (iPhone owners need not answer that). Unless you are much more careful than most, my bet is that you’re getting tired of all the blemishes your phone now has.
Perhaps, there are also things you never liked about it and now can’t bear them anymore. Well you are not alone: Find out what Zack Urlocker has to say about his aging Treo 650 and see how that compares with your phone annoyances.
Posted by Mario Apicella on February 20, 2008 07:20 AM
