It's Friday
Friday, 20. February 2009, 19:28:14
Thankfully I made it through another week of frantic people, confused coders and generally unqualified people all looking for a "magic button" to press to make their jobs easier. Sadly I have to report that up to now they have all been very slow in learning or even changing their work habits.
I'm talking about making electronic documents accessible, web pages that are filled with tables, graphics and a gazillion spacers just don't cut it. Enlarging font sizes in Word aren't exactly doing much either, just because it is larger doesn't mean its a header.
Some day they'll get it. Probably when they are older and needing binoculars to read a screen, will they finally understand the need to do a little planning.
That's life isn't it? Everyone is resistant to change no matter how small it might be.
On with a different subject, silly and ridiculous news stories.
According to a group in Winnipeg, Manitoba, The Ufology Research group to be exact; 2008 saw a record number of reports of unidentified flying objects.
The Winnipeg-based volunteer group noted 1,004 reported sightings last year - by far the highest number since the group started counting in 1989.
Spokesman Chris Rutkowski says the vast majority of sightings turn out to be airplanes, towers or other known objects, but a few sightings each year are strange and remarkable. He says one of the strangest cases occurred last March, when people in two vehicles saw an object the size of a car float quickly across a highway near Wadena, Saskatchewan.
I think they are all just standing out in the cold without a hat just a bit too much. If you've never been to Winnipeg, don't go, there is absolutely nothing there to see or do; except maybe spot a UFO or two.
I'm talking about making electronic documents accessible, web pages that are filled with tables, graphics and a gazillion spacers just don't cut it. Enlarging font sizes in Word aren't exactly doing much either, just because it is larger doesn't mean its a header.
Some day they'll get it. Probably when they are older and needing binoculars to read a screen, will they finally understand the need to do a little planning.
That's life isn't it? Everyone is resistant to change no matter how small it might be.
On with a different subject, silly and ridiculous news stories.
According to a group in Winnipeg, Manitoba, The Ufology Research group to be exact; 2008 saw a record number of reports of unidentified flying objects.The Winnipeg-based volunteer group noted 1,004 reported sightings last year - by far the highest number since the group started counting in 1989.
Spokesman Chris Rutkowski says the vast majority of sightings turn out to be airplanes, towers or other known objects, but a few sightings each year are strange and remarkable. He says one of the strangest cases occurred last March, when people in two vehicles saw an object the size of a car float quickly across a highway near Wadena, Saskatchewan.
I think they are all just standing out in the cold without a hat just a bit too much. If you've never been to Winnipeg, don't go, there is absolutely nothing there to see or do; except maybe spot a UFO or two.
Police say a trail of candy wrappers helped them find five Florida teens suspected of breaking into a nearby home. Officers responded to a burglary report Tuesday in Palm Bay on Florida's central Atlantic coast. An officer then followed a trail of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups packages in the backyard.
The officer noticed another wrapper on the front porch of a house near the victim's home.
Officers found several teens at the second house who confessed to the burglary and informed officers that the stolen property was in the attic.
Three of the teens face armed burglary charges and two others face charges of resisting arrest without violence and tampering with evidence.
All five of the teens face massive dental bills and a face full of zits.
This is my fave of the week. Members of the Vernon RCMP detachment in British Columbia's North Okanagan are used to seeing crooks hauled through their doors. But they aren't used to seeing a suspect dragged in, almost by his ear, after being corralled by a small, irate woman furious about the theft of her pickup truck.
Mounties admit they had trouble keeping straight faces as they rescued the suspect from his captor early Friday morning. The woman says she was sitting in a nearby car, waiting for her truck to warm up, when the man jumped into the pickup and sped away.
She followed in the car and, when the suspect realized he couldn't shake his tenacious tail he ditched the pickup - a block away from the Vernon RCMP detachment. That's when the truculent truck owner collared the man.
That'll teach him to respect his elders.
WIDGETIZE
Shaunak De # 21. February 2009, 01:54
Wonder if the wrappers were red !?