Drawrings

Drawrings

This is what drawring has been like for the pablo recently

New Version of ColdFusion: MX 7

Woo Hoo: Macromedia - Products : ColdFusion MX 7. I guess Macromedia is keeping everyone guessing by stealthifying the version numbers with the whole "MX" thing and then adding the version number again? I think MX 7 is much better than MXtream! or something like that.

Bigger & Bigger

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Originally uploaded by killy.

This is a flickr post. Hats off to adolph for turning me on to this.

Adolfo IV tried fish soup tonight. "That's NOT good," he stated emphatically.

Test Two

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Originally uploaded by Amber & Adolph.

This is a test of the Flickr to Blogger posting tool. I took this picture at a Sears Auto Center while waiting for my battery to be replaced. The Sears is 1950's vintage. One of the service techs said that it still has the shelter below the building.

Test Flickr Post

Mac OS X Hacking Tools

I was reading Mac OS X Hacking Tools and thought, "I could use the "/usr/bin/say" command to make the iBook at the Houston office speak to people in the server room." Then I thought a little bit more and thought, "I wonder if 'Mac mini Hosting' is going to disable the speakers on those buggers. Otherwise, they are going to have a whole bunch of computers whispering to the system administrators, 'Psst, hey, reboot me!'"

Grown-up Things To Do

One of the grown-up things I've been doing for a while now is putting money into a retirement account. I've also been reading more of the sales literature that the retirement account folks send me every now and then. In the latest brochure, I'm struck by the similarities between financial services and pharmaceutical advertising. It is beneficial stuff, but it is also stuff that makes people and corporations very wealthy. Likewise, the benefits seem concrete, but the risks are hazy and buried in booklets of small type.

In today's ad there is a misleading graphic comparing how much of a difference it means to someone investing the same amount earlier in the year. It uses a non-proportional bar chart to accentuate the difference. The message is about changes in the tax structure:

• Higher contribution limits let you save more.
• Recent tax breaks give you more to save.
• The Benefits of increasing your contributions early in the year.

Notice the one that isn't a complete sentence? Something seems fishy to me. It isn't fishy in the wrong-doing sense, but in the sense of a good thing being oversold.