Twitter was having a bit of a fit this morning, and this is the error message I received. That’s the great thing about new small web companies: senses of humour.
Archive for the 'Random' Category Page 2 of 9
As I had written about before, American money is ugly compared to foreign currency. The Bank of England website shows off the Brit’s colourful currency. The Euro is also loaded with colors. Here, we get drab, ugly banknotes.
The US Treasury has started to add “splashes” of colour to help deter counterfeiting. But, maybe big changes are on the way?
A US Federal Court judge has ordered the Treasury to make changes to the currency to help visually impaired people distinguish between bills. Other countries (including those mentioned above) use colour, size, and texture to distinguish denominations. The judge didn’t tell the government how to comply, but they needed to start working on it1. Maybe there is hope yet…
- Some of the batshit insaneTM right wing blogs out there are incorrectly relaying that the Treasury has 10 days to start working on a solution. The news stories I’ve read from news sites says the government has 10 days to appeal. Funny how a few words make a difference. ↩
The NAS document is coming along, but not as quickly as I’d like. I find that I sit down and load it… and nothing makes its way from my brain to my fingers. I can say that my NAS implementation has been rock solid since I put in the new USB 2.0 controller card that uses the NEC controller chip. The Wife found a 1280VA UPS at Staples for $30 (She can smell the deals as we pass the stores in the car… kinda like a sale bloodhound
Classes are coming along. I’m taking a Systems Administration course and a PHP/MySQL web programming course. The Sysadmin class looks like it’ll be a slide as I’ve done most of this stuff already (thus, writing a document on how to build a homegrown NAS). The PHP class is going to be challenging.
For those who know about the “new job,” I haven’t heard anything more. They’re still doing whatever it is they do.
I had heard from several people (although, I cannot recall who) that the new McDonald’s coffee was pretty good and that they liked it better than Starbucks. I have taken the Pepsi Challenge, and I can confirm that those people are clearly insane. I’ve had better coffee at the free breakfast bar at the Holiday Inn.
Keith Olbermann rips the government for its handling of, well, everything, after 9/11. He is very clearly speaking from his heart. Go Ken.
Update: 10/21 - Yeah, so I was flabbergasted when I posted this and hosed his name. Sorry Keith. 
