Browsing through Google News stories tonight, I spotted an article called “San Francisco restaurant known for ‘rudest waiter’ closing.”  Much to my surprise, as soon as I clicked on the link, I thought, “We’ve eaten there!” I confirmed my suspicion by checking Google Street View, with which you can take an inside tour.  Here’s a view…
I’m not the best web server admin, mostly because it tends to bore me. My little server spends most of its time idle, and 90% of the requests it gets are from Google’s bot. (I’ve actually just used Google’s web-admin tools to seriously reduce the crawl rate on my server, because its continually re-examining images…
Back in 2000, I opened a First Union account in Georgia. Â First Union was a great little bank with excellent customer service, and I never had a problem with them. Â Then, First Union was purchased by Wachovia. Â I had a few issues with Wachovia, but they were minimal. Â Then, after the financial sector collapse, Wachovia…
Berck drifted off and then when I rolled over started the following conversation: Berck: Do you know what MUNIX stands for? Jonah: Unix? Berck: MUNIX. Multiuser. He tries but he’s not very good at it. Me: Who? Berck: Shawn. Shawn David, they’re all named Shawn. Me: Shawn? Berck: Creamy rice, Jonah. Creamy rice.