David Gessel
A week of tweets: 2010-08-22
- Hertz LA running very full and slow lately. #
- At trueburger. Excellent but american cheese only is disappointing. Milkshake is better. #
Time Zones, how do they work?
Time Zones are a peeve of mine I’ve been trying to get sorted out for years. I’m not alone either, at least one rant has been cross-posted. The gist of the problem is embodied in the following:
You are in California on the phone with someone in Boston planning a phone conference from 10:00-11:30 am for next week at which time you’ll be in London. What time should you set the conference for? Can you do the math? How about if you’re in Phoenix in April? There are 31 time zones and almost all contain some regions that observe and some that do not observe DST. This is the sort of irritating arithmetic my computer should do.
Time zones are actually very easy to handle – and it is also easy to give reminders to people as to what time zone they are in all in one simple modification to the “new appointment” and “new task” dialogs: just add a start and end time zone for each that defaults to the current time zone the computer is in. Why both start and end? Because when you get on a plane you very frequently start in one time zone and end in another and airlines give you takeoff and landing times in the local time zones.
We’re using Zimbra ZCS these days, a pretty nice program, but they handle time zones worse than any modern program I’ve used. Hopefully they’ll fix it to something like this:
LinkedIn Phishing
I got a strange phishing message that pretended to be from LinkedIn. Not too bad as a facsimilie. Fortunately
the target domain ) is already shutdown (suspended for “spam abuse”)
Name Server:NS1.SUSPENDED-FOR.SPAM-AND-ABUSE.COM
It appeared to be registered to a legit business and possibly a real name and email address, though unrelated to the LinkedIn request. Kind of a clever trick, but it probably would have lasted longer with CN registration, and perhaps if every link on the page didn’t point to the same destination.
A week of tweets: 2010-08-15
- P ? NP? If true – Good: banking may be safe. Bad: Salesmen never optimally routed. http://ova.st/pnp #
A week of tweets: 2010-08-08
- Up at 3:00am ET w/ @phragments & @bellastar11 for 2.5hr trip to JFK via A. Morning starts again in a few hours at LAX. #
- Omg! My FA is Kirsten Schaal!! (Not for realz, but in principal) #
A week of tweets: 2010-08-01
- RT @Percival: RT @DannyTRS: “Give a man a fire, he’s warm for the rest of the day. Set a man on fire, he’s warm for the rest of his life.” #
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20012253-245.html #
A week of tweets: 2010-07-25
- How odd: a good bill in congress! #
- Back on us soil after very frantic visit to euroland only 2 days without major travel. #
A week of tweets: 2010-07-18
- Hertz Traverse LT minivan: why does GM add pointless power tailgate but no USB interface? Sadly, US cars still suck. #
A week of tweets: 2010-07-11
- Breakfast at the big table: heath bar ice cream with espresso. #toscanini #039;s #
- Dear boston pops, please, please spare us the misery of the WBZ color commentary on the PA. #shutup #
- Mass ave taken over by peds leaving fireworks. Police asking people to move to sidewalk not helping… #
- It is 60F here in LA and it Rained this morning. WTF? #
- RT @akieffer: Agave Lab Releases New iPhone App – Tastebud for Open Source Food #
- No power, no network in santa monica and AT&T screwed up my WWAN account. Work FAIL. Thanks PG&E. Sprinkle shorted it out I guess. #
- Wow, nice earthquake. My monitor was wiggling http://ova.st/5 #
- RT @dvrogers: Niki de Saint Phalle + Jean Tinguely The world began to blowup + shooting paintings via @christinamcphee http://is.gd/djcm4 #
- Off to oakland. Fruitvale is our closest BART stop, but we’re on the coliseum side, so it was quiet last time and I hear is so far tonight. #
- Quiet in east oakland now #
Kitten Mittons!
After Tortuga had her kittens, the clatter of tiny paws was almost deafening. We really could have used a whole case of these!