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The same J-hole who prompted me to post about hallway etiquette sits across the hall and a couple doors down from me. He sits right next to the open door of a shared office. Why are these details significant? Because he has this disgusting habit of belching loudly and with annoying regularity. Not polite, easily-covered burps, [...]
The kitchens here at Microsoft have these nifty little Starbucks brew-on-demand coffee machines. One of the two in my floor’s kitchen has suffered some sort of failure and is showing a “brewer failure” message on its small, text-based display screen. Someone stuck a Post-It next to it saying “Brew Screen of Death.” Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha…
A few weeks ago, early in November, I upgraded my desktop machine at home to Windows 7 Professional from Windows XP Professional. Why Professional? For a number of reasons, but one of the big ones is the ability to use Remote Desktop. While I use RD to manage our “headless” server and other PCs in [...]