Fundraiser for American Heart Association

A plea from my kids:

Hi! I’m joining in the American Heart Association’s Jump Rope For Heart event at my school. I will be jumping rope to help the American Heart Association raise money to fight heart disease and stroke. Can you help me by making a donation? Thanks!

The American Heart Association's online fundraising website has a minimum donation amount of $25.00. If you want to donate less, that's ok. You can just send the check right to me and I'll make sure the American Heart Association gets it.

Follow This Link to visit my personal web page and help me in my efforts to support American Heart Association - Mid-Atlantic Affiliate

Firefox rulz!

This is hilarious. Microsoft Adcenter Support suggesting the customer to try Firefox!!!



I hope Helen is still employed in Microsoft! I had once contacted Microsoft about an IE7 problem and the support person sent me a link to a posting in the net(using googlegroups page). But this one takes the cake.



Recently Joel Spolsky took apart Vista's shutdown options. I also read an article in response by a guy who worked on that shutdown menu. You would think someone is describing Federal Government at work! If someone knows that URL, please post it in the comments. The meeting attendees to work on the menu cracked me up. I remembered my previous job when one programmer had to update seven project managers on 'status' and 'progress'.

Useability and Design

Of all the people, Sprint sends a new phone to Joel Spoelsky to try out their service! What were they thinking... I am sure some heads rolled there. Spolsky really ripped into them. Big time. I don't want to spoil your fun. Read it for yourself. It's a bit lengthy. But it's awesome.

Speaking of useability, where are windows apps going? Recently the apps are having a mind of their own. Skype for example. I uncheck the option to start skype when windows starts. You think it cares? No Sir. It's a tease option. And I hate having to click three times to close these apps. Apps like skype, instant messaging, etc., They have just a close option in the Menu. When you close, they shrink to the task bar. Then you click on right mouse button and click exit. And then they ask you again if you are sure! Jeez!!

And couple of days back, I installed the new yahoo messenger with voice. I normally keep an eye to exclude the extra apps they throw in. I don't remember seeing any option. Today I had to uninstall 3 or 4 apps that Yahoo Messenger installed. Why do you need an app in your machine for webmail? And why is yahoo offering tabbed browsing feature to IE. I mean - why bother!