Posts from — November 2006

Suppose you have a trash can that gets filled up. What do you do? That’s right, you empty it.

So why is it so hard for people to do that with their email? Here at work we have 125 MB limit on the size of your mail file. When you pass the limit, you can’t send mail. I constantly get calls from people in a panic saying they can’t send any email.

My answer is always “then start deleting.” It’s an extremely simple thing that very few people seem to understand. Delete, delete, delete.

Here’s what I wrote 4 years ago today in my weblog:

“My new system arrived yesterday. I got a Dell 4550 2.53 GHz Pentium 4 with all the accessories. So far I’m very impressed. Pam got my “old” Dell 1.7 GHz system and she’s extremely happy with it. Her last computer was a Dell 500 MHz so this new one for her is a vast improvement.”

The specs of my current computer isn’t much different than they were 4 years ago. I still have that 2.53 GHz sytem and it’s working great.

Fast food can kill you. But not necessarily by eating it. I was driving around yesterday and some bimbo pulled out of a fast food place. I followed her for a couple of miles and I thought she was drunk by the way she was driving. It turns out she was eating her freakin’ hamburger and fries while driving down that extremely busy road.

By sheer luck this idiot driver nearly missed crashing her hunk-of-junk car because she was pigging out and not focusing on the road. Studies have shown that driving while distracted is as bad as drunk driving and this moron shouldn’t have been on the road.

The same goes for people talking on their cell phones while driving. Most people can barely drive a car and when they start talking on the phone, they are even worse. How can you be expected to use your turn signal if one hand is holding a cell phone and the other one is on the steering wheel? Looking away for even a second to dial someone on your phone is all it takes to get in an accident.

How distracted are you while driving? Take this quiz.

There are only 22 more days left to live in our temporary apartment. The new house will be ready and we can finally move out. At first we were very excited with the idea of Apartment Life. As the months went by, we quickly grew tired of the cramped ant hole.

All of the neighbors seem to be in their own little worlds. You never see anyone outside walking around. On the rare occasions I did see someone, my greetings were usually met with a vacant greeting. I won’t miss anyone at that place.

The unit itself looks nice but they must have used the cheapest construction materials they could find. Not one cabinet door opens smoothly and all the kitchen drawers stick when you open or close them. Even the drawer in the refrigerator almost falls off its track every time we use it. When the furnace comes on you can’t hear yourself talk and the included washer and dryer is so loud it sounds like its falling apart.

Even the cats are becoming bored with the place. There is nowhere for them to run and nothing to look at through the windows. All of us are going stir-crazy in anticipation of the new condo.

Yes we will be very glad to finally be out of that place.

I’ve settled on a design (again) and added a few new features to the site. What do you think?

Check out the rotating Fractured Quotes in the Sidebar and also the new Ajax-ified Tagboard. You can leave quick comments with the Tagboard as you’re reading the site.

Have fun.

Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Switch to a Macintosh

1. No wires. The only wire coming out of the back of my Mac is the power cord. Everything else is wireless including the bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
2. Sherlock. A meta-search engine frontend that works very well.
3. Garageband and podcasting. I don’t use either but the ease of use is very nice.
4. Dashboard and it’s widgets. For quick and easy reference.
5. No searching for drivers. Just plug in any device and it will be installed automatically. My digital camera and printer worked within seconds of plugging them into the computer.
6. iTunes. There’s a reason the iPod is the number one portable music player. On the Mac they are integrated flawlessly with iTunes. Music, movies and podcasts are a breeze on the Mac.
7. Front Row. This app is activated with the Apple remote and brings a very slick interface where you can listen to music, view pictures, and watch movies on your computer.
8. The Design. The all-in-one case with it’s built-in iSight camera, multiple USB and firewire ports, cool keyboard and “mighty mouse” make the Mac a functional and fun computer to work with.
9. Speech. Last night I asked my computer to “Tell me a joke.” So it did. Then I blabbed away asking it to things like “Open Safari” and “Print document.” It was the best implementation of speech I’ve worked with so far.
10. It runs Windows. But why would I want to do it? I’ve decided not to pollute my awesome system by installing a buggy Windows OS. The new Windows is accused of copying many of the features that the Mac has had all along. So why bother running Windows?

Online in one form or another since 1996, Frontsideback is Michael Feldstein’s personal web site.

The archives only go back to January 2002 because of the Christmas Incident in 2001 where all my old entries were lost. Almost 5 years of extremely entertaining stories were lost to the world.

You wouldn’t know it by looking at me, but I can run really fast.

Other people’s bad driving habits will be the end of me. Years of therapy hasn’t helped. This weblog allows me to vent about it and sometimes I feel better.

Let me know what you think of the site, call anytime.

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