Aug
5
Jeremy wants to know how to get Use.Perl journals’ RSS feeds. Yes, the documentation is incorrect (or at least out of date). The way that seems to work at present is:
http://use.perl.org/journal.pl?content_type=rss&uid=10878
To get the number (10878) from the name (matts) involves going to the person’s journal page (http://use.perl.org/~matts/journal/), and hovering over one of [...]
Aug
5
Dominos Online Ordering
Filed Under Customer Service, Ecommerce | 6 Comments
More braindead software alert.
Last night I was at a friend’s house and we decided to order pizza from Domino’s. I very rarely order from them, so I can never remember which pizza it is I like - it’s either the “Hot and Spicy” or the “Tandoori Hot”, but I never know which. So, as we [...]
Aug
5
C:\Program Files\Radio UserLand\www\#prefs.txt wasn’t found
Filed Under Wikis, Weblogs and Outliners | Leave a Comment
I really hate misleading error messages.
Radio just started complaining, when I tried to make the last post: [Macro error: The file "C:\Program Files\Radio UserLand\www\#prefs.txt" wasn't found.]
Of course C:\Program Files\Radio UserLand\www\#prefs.txt is actually there. A bit of googling reveals that lots of people have gotten this message, and the common solutions seem to be “reinstall radio”, [...]
Aug
5
Granite Rock - The Change Masters
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Woolpert at times sounds like a Zen master. “Focus every day on being better. Every time management has a meeting, they should be reviewing improvements in process, not sitting around and talking about dead historical data.” What counts, in other words, isn’t just gathering information but implementing changes — and that too must be built [...]