29 Jun 08 Like A Politician
That’s what the house is like. Full of hot air.
Last week the air conditioning decides to quit working when it’s 90+ outside. Typical.
Anyway, along comes the engineer on Friday, and says that we need some Freon in the unit outside. He fills it up, and away he goes. House starts to cool down a a little – at one time it was 95F in here, with all the doors and windows open and fans blowing.
Saturday morning it didn’t seem that cool really, the temperature inside was 79F,even though the thermostat was set at 72F. Went out all day, came back around 6pm, and the temperature in here was back up to 87F.
The unit outside was not running.
Lots of people got phone calls and emails last evening, but of course, there won’t be even any kind of response until Monday, and hopefully a return visit from the engineer.
It’s OK in here right now, as it’s only 75F outside, and all the fans are running, and the doors and windows are open. I’ll enjoy it while it lasts, as it’s back to the 90′s by mid afternoon.
It’s going to be a warm Sunday!
Tags: 6pm, air conditioning, doors and windows, engineer, freon, full of hot air, mid afternoon, phone calls, saturday morning, thermostat
22 May 08 The Week Flies By
It’s already Thursday, isn’t it? I think so. Heck the days fly by so quick, that it’s difficult to keep up sometimes. I don’t really have a demarcation between weekday and weekend, so it’s perhaps sometimes more of a blur.
One good thing is that I don’t get that Monday morning feeling really, although having said that, I do seem to get more phone calls on a Monday morning, after the weekend computer gremlins have been out to play.
It sure seems that way quite often anyhow. Everything is OK on a Friday night, and all gone west by Monday Morning. Sometimes I feel like getting in the car and heading west too.
Not really, although I do keep promising myself a coast to coast road trip one fine day. One fine day, when I have the money, and more to the point, when I have the time!
You see, not only do the days seem to fly by, but the hours do as well, and no sooner am I started on something than I’ve been at it for hours.
Still, I’m not one to be able to sit about and do nothing. Oh, I’m good at sitting about, too darn good at that really, but sitting about doing nothing? No. I have to be engaging my brain in something – a good book – usually something historic or scientific – or some music.
So, back to a very old concept, one that has often been used in the workplace, and some music while I work.
Tags: blur, brain, computer gremlins, demarcation, fly, friday night, heck, monday morning, money, Music, one fine day, phone calls, road trip, weekday, weekend computer
05 Feb 08 What Is All The Yahoo About?
Why does Microsoft want to buy a failing company like Yahoo for? Like it or not, Google is the main search engine of choice for the overwhelming majority of the online population.
Remember the likes of Excite and Lycos? They seem to have vanished. AltaVista and inktomi got swallowed up by Yahoo themselves.
What Yahoo CAN offer Microsoft are the deals they have with Verizon, and the inroads they have made into the mobile market.
Windows Mobile 6 might not have the best reputation for stability (what Windows OS does), but WM7 is on the way, and more and more people are using mobile phones for everything but making phone calls.
What about the iPhone? Well, the iPhone is rather a cool niche product, but it does really offer mobile computing in the same way that Windows Mobile can and does, and as most of my readers will know, I am no fan of the Redmond giant.
Also many people that hacked their iPhone’s to work on other networks besides AT&T are now finding they no longer work after the latest iPhone updates. Also the iPhone is, officially, tied to AT&T, which is an expensive, slow, network.
Now, Google are looking to get into this area too. It’s well known that Google are bidding to obtain wireless spectrum, and are touting the idea of an open source phone with free (but advertisement-funded) software.
Google’s fear (besides being concerned that a Microsoft/Yahoo enterprise will eat into their market share) is that Microsoft will use their monopolistic powers to subvert the net; to change it slowly but surely, into MS-Net, much as they’ve done already, in the way they’ve stamped their feet at OpenOffice getting ISO 9002 certification for the .odt format, and they way they’ve only adopted the bits they decide they want in the Internet Explorer rendering engine.
Some say that Google is becoming too powerful, and heading towards a monopoly like Microsoft largely is. My own take on that statement is that whilst Google are enveloping the online world, by and large, unlike Microsoft, they are using standards that are already in place, and not trying to bend and change them to suit their own business practices.
Tags: inroads, iphone, market windows, microsoft, mobile computing, mobile market, mobile phones, niche product, overwhelming majority, phone calls, population, redmond giant, reputation, search engine, verizon, windows os, yahoo
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