Maszman Speaks!

On the heels of the news of prob­lems with the Amerks, it appears the Rhi­nos are also in finan­cial trou­ble. Has time run out on Steve Don­ner? Let’s hope so.

180 South Clin­ton Avenue, orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz.

Dig­i­tal infrared, via the GIMP.

Noth­ing like an ele­va­tor acci­dent that injures two work­ers to expose the fact that you haven’t had a proper inspec­tion done in two years. Since it’s believed that the ele­va­tor wasn’t actu­ally defec­tive (despite the inspec­tion irreg­u­lar­i­ties) that prob­a­bly means it was over­loaded or the load was improp­erly dis­trib­uted, which implies the employ­ees were not ade­quately trained. OSHA is going to be all over Happy Ice, guaranteed.

Ever won­der why all the radio sta­tions sound the same? It’s because they’re all owned by giant cor­po­ra­tions. And yet they won­der why peo­ple have turned to iPods and satel­lite radio.

I guess in a way my mom was lucky, she died of lung can­cer before C.O.P.D could strike her down.

I love desk­top wid­gets but I never liked Apple’s Dash­board because you can’t have the wid­gets vis­i­ble with­out hit­ting a key. I’ve always found that annoy­ing and I’ve stuck with Kon­fab­u­la­tor (now Yahoo! Wid­gets) on my Mac (I run them on my work PC, too). But now there’s the Amnesty™ Wid­get Browser that runs Dash­board wid­gets on the desk­top with­out Dash­board. Since I run dif­fer­ent wid­gets at home any­way, this could be the ticket for me.

Thanks to Matt Haughey for this one!

[Update] Amnesty works fine, but the there doesn’t seem to be a work­ing Yahoo! Mail dash­board wid­get or one that will sim­ply dis­play a kanji char­ac­ter like Jen­er­a­tor. Sur­pris­ingly, the num­ber of iTunes wid­gets is far smaller than Kon­fab­u­la­tor. I may switch back.