Automation Adventures

Recent exchange on Twitter:

hotdogsladies: Remember: there’s no “I” in cyclops.
dmoren: Wait. I’m pretty sure there’s one ‘i’ in cyclops, right?
hotdogsladies: You’re close, @dmoren — there are 2 “sees.”
dmoren: That depends: are we talking before or after *SPOILER ALERT* Odysseus pokes the “i” out with a big stick?

Some of the interesting spam subjects I got in the last couple of weeks…

“SOLD OUT -LIMITED OFFER-Rolex Watch under 250$” - thanks for letting me know I can no longer benefit from this special offer, since you’ve already sold all of them!
“Umbrella staircase” - Hmm, that could be handy if the staircase is outside and [...]

Terry Pratchett has revealed in a letter on the website of artist Paul Kidby that he is suffering from a rare form of early Alzheimer’s disease.
Pratchett is probably most famous for his Discworld series, where a parallel world, carried by 4 huge elephants standing on an enormous turtle named Great A’Tuin, has more than a [...]

I just received an email from Chumby Industries, informing that the Chumby is now shipping to a select group of customers. If you want to buy one, sign up on the store page.
Meanwhile, while you’re waiting for your Chumby to be delivered, or waiting for it to become available, you can play around with the [...]

Well, I just spent close to two days figuring out how to make the Progress Debugger to run in Windows Vista 64-bit.
When we first installed OpenEdge 10.0B on Vista, an error message popped up that the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Secure couldn’t be accessed. Since everything seemed to work OK, we didn’t pay much attention to it.
Until [...]