Archive for August, 2003
Monday, August 18th, 2003
BSClient
Got some work done on the client over the weekend, as you can see below:
It was very easy to get the basic buy/sell logic implemented (in fact, I did it the same day the API was released), but getting the interface put together is going to take a [...]
No Comments » - Posted in BlogShares by mattcomroe
Thursday, August 14th, 2003
W32.Blaster
As wave after wave of Blaster continues to wash over the net, I’m just enjoying looking at my firewall logs. About 1000 pings turned away in the last 12 hours, and 98% of them are on port 135, which means that it’s almost all Blaster traffic. I have a feeling that windowsupdate.microsoft.com is [...]
No Comments » - Posted in General Tech by mattcomroe
Thursday, August 14th, 2003
More Job-hunting madness.
More Bad Idea Jeans… got this email from a buddy of mine yesterday. Names changed to protect the innocent.
bq.. Hey Matt,
You’ve gotta see what this complete dumb-fuck headhunter did. I’m actually not looking for a job right now, but always respond to them with a high salary requirement to see what bites. Anyway, one [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Humor by mattcomroe
Thursday, August 14th, 2003
BlogShares Developer API
What started off as a fun and interesting time-waster looks like it might turn into a fun little side programming project now. The fine folks at BlogShares have released an XML-based API. What’s exciting is that this morning trading functionality was added. This means that by passing the appropriate querystring you can [...]
No Comments » - Posted in BlogShares by mattcomroe
Wednesday, August 13th, 2003
Road rizzage
Went out for a quick little after-work bike ride Monday night… a 20-mile jaunt down through town and back. While riding down the main drag in Squirrel Hill, I was stopped at a light. The light going the other way turned green, and a cute little old black man, replete in a slightly [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Humor by mattcomroe
Monday, August 11th, 2003
I dream of Woods
I had a strange dream this morning. I dreamed I was at a local B&N, and I saw a man with gray hair over at the James Woods section of the store (apparently in my dream Mr. Woods is an author as well as an actor). Upon closer inspection I realized that it [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Matt's Boring Life by mattcomroe
Friday, August 8th, 2003
Ring-a-ding, ding.
Found out a great thing with my phone. Instead of just downloading (and paying for) ringtones, I can email MIDI files to my phone, and save the resultant message as a sound, which I can then use for a ringer. Since I can do different rings for each person in my phonebook, I [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Matt's Boring Life by mattcomroe
Thursday, August 7th, 2003
Crikey!
Some excitement for the lunchtime hour today. I went out and grabbed some Boston Market, and when I got back Pat and I were going to go up to our little outdoor cafe spot behind the building. I approached Pat, who was smoking by his car.
bq.. “We might want to eat indoors today.”
“Oh, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Matt's Boring Life by mattcomroe
Wednesday, August 6th, 2003
One Thunderbird annoyance gone
In the latest build I have I found (quite by accident) that there is now a keyboard shortcut for getting new mail; Ctrl + T. W00t!
No Comments » - Posted in General Tech by mattcomroe
Wednesday, August 6th, 2003
Ick
100% humidity on the ride in this morning = suck.
I feel like I bathed in sweat. And not like supermodel-sweat, either… this is the sweat of a big fat guy named Vito who had a big plate of pasta for dinner with his momma’s special gravy with the extra-garlicky sausage, and maybe brushed his [...]
