January 2010
20 posts
Howard Zinn dies at 87. →
Henry Rollins at A38 →
redking:
rthr:
Henry Rollins is hitting Prague and Budapest this year, still not coming to Poland. Tickets 90zł. [sigh]
i recommend Berlin. did that in January of 2008. got everything signed, yay! and he remembered my emails!
But Berlin’s next week and I’m broke :-/ I’m hoping one of my clients will cough up the money they owe me for translations ― then I’ll go to...
Henry Rollins at A38 →
Henry Rollins is hitting Prague and Budapest this year, still not coming to Poland. Tickets 90zł. [sigh]
clientsfromhell:
Client: “This is absolutely wrong. Where’s all the HTML. We want the HTML?”
Me: “I don’t understand. All the files should be on the flash drive we gave you yesterday.”
Client: “Well… whats all this php jumbo-mumbo?”
Me: “PHP is just a language. It does all the work for your CMS. You can’t have CMS with only HTML files.
Client: “I get it. You just don’t understand....
clientsfromhell:
Client: “The logo looks great, but can we change the address font to Arabic? I need it for my Middle Eastern viewers.”
Me: “Actually, Arabic is a name of that font you sent me, it doesn’t actually change the words into another language. I can purchase a actual Arabic font, and figure out how to turn it into Arabic….”
Client: “So New Times Roman doesn’t change the words into...
1964 – Pacific Islanders troll Oz
The so-called “Johnson cult” started when the Lavongai people of New Hanover voted for the American President Lyndon B. Johnson in the first election of Papua and New Guinea (still separate territories) in February 1964. Although the Australian authorities explained that they could not vote for President Johnson, the Lavongais refused to change their vote. They claimed they wanted...
Apple Store madness.
lewiskingblog:
Apple stores don’t have “no smoking” signs. Legally they need them but they “ruin the design of the store”, so for every apple store in the UK they pay £50 a day to keep their windows sign free. Crazy shit.
EDIT: I forgot to include the source, it’s a friend who works in the Apple Store in Norwich, The evidence is the fact that they aren’t actually in the windows.
