You gotta know by now (after 8-9 yrs since the 2015-2016 presidential campaign trail), that I’m a liberal; I’m a democrat; I support gay rights, and same sex marriage; I support a women’s right to choose; I support women who have to make an agonizing decision, and that decision is theirs alone to make; I do not ‘get’ people who feel the need to stick their nose into someone else’s pregnancy. I … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2024
Documentation and procrastination at work
July 10, 2024 By
Close to exactly two months ago (May 13th), I asked “Luetta” at work for copies of three specific MS-Word documents that I needed to update for a project I’ve been working on for last few months. One is called a user’s guide - and it’s a couple of hundred pages, a shorter one is called the programmer’s guide - a much smaller doc [Sorry, I didn’t write down the exact page counts]. The third one … [Read more...]
Working with a colleague, trying to determine why “Read-only” checkbox is checked on MS-Windows file.
July 4, 2024 By
Just another short blurb tonight (lol). Just another fantastic day at work today; a colleague had issues with a program he had developed, and QA (quality assurance) was testing; he was informed by QA either late last week or this past Monday that ‘something was wrong’, and I’ve been helping him try to determine the root cause. The irony here is he’s a seasoned cobol programmer (and I’m not), … [Read more...]
