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Re: I'm not a liberal (Scripting News)

Philip Hodgetts — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 13:02:44 -0000

Well put. Nicely argued and rational. And the "America's religion is the Constitution" is brilliant.

Philiop

Re: Zucker is wrong to be so smug

Philip Hodgetts — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:59:46 -0000

Silverlight runs on Windows and OS X. Silverlight 1 runs on PPC and Intel Macs using Safari; Silverlight 2 runs on Intel Macs using Safari 2 or 3.

Philip

Re: Speaking of woodsheds, check out Randy on the RIAA

Philip Hodgetts — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 01:50:37 -0000

Nothing creative in the swearing - seems pretty dull and boring; standard rant fare to me. :)

Although I'm inclined to agree with the spirit of the post.

Cheers

Philip

Re: Thank you, your time is worthless, please hold

Philip Hodgetts — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 02:11:32 -0000

So absolutely, absolutely true. I had a recent incident (or three) with Cingular and wrote to the VP Marketing concluding that I presumed they didn't really care and would try and fob me off with some "we really care, but we don't" response and saying that I would be insulted by such a response.

I got a call from "the Office of the President" which turns out to be a do-nothing call center designed to give the illusion they care. They don't. None of them do. The high cost of acquiring a customer seems to be nothing, because this customer is going as soon as the contract's up. Cingular's non-existent customer service drove me away.

Philip

Re: Bawling over bowling

Philip Hodgetts — Fri, 12 May 2006 04:53:30 -0000

Robert, just another well-wisher among many. I cried reading your blog tonight. Right now I'm in the opposite position - my mom is visiting from Australia and I'm enjoying her company while I can. Mother can be the most annoying people in our lives (sometimes) but it's now time for me to enjoy her company while I can. Reading what you're going through makes me realise just how precious the time I have with her is.

Crying is good therapy, to be recommended.

Philip

Re: Google announces more sleepless nights ahead for MSFT product managers

Philip Hodgetts — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:54:14 -0000

I'm a big fan of "load local" and web services haven't really interested me, but reading about Google's spreadsheet got me excited - because two or more people can work on the one sheet at a time. A limited sheet, sure, but a spreadsheet none the less. My producer and I could look at a schedule together; or perhaps a guest could place themselves in the schedule? I love the idea.

And I know Excel with Office Live will probably have some similar features but so far I've been undersold. ;-)

Philip

Re: Software Request: Burncaster

Philip Hodgetts — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:53:10 -0000

iTunes will do that for him on PC or Mac. Create a Playlist for the podcast and burn the playlist to a CD, converting to standard CD format on the way.

Philip

Re: Apple rebooting problem hits us…

Philip Hodgetts — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:02:23 -0000

It's possible it's bad RAM which often causes random restarts. No real way to test other than swapping out RAM and waiting to see if it changes the results.

Philip